400

LWCJ 401A Pre-Law Clinic Seminar

Prerequisites: LWPS 230, CJ 230, PSCI 308 and LW 300 and with permission of the instructor. The Pre-Law Clinic provides students with hands-on experience by conducting investigations, legal research, and preparing real cases for trial. The Clinic has a classroom seminar and collaborative investigative component.

Credits

3.0

Offered

Fall Semester

LWCJ 401B Pre-Law Clinic

Corequisite: LWCJ 401A. Grading is satisfactory/unsatisfactory. The Pre-Law Clinic provides students with hands-on experience by conducting investigations, legal research, and preparing real cases for trial. The Clinic has a classroom seminar and collaborative investigative component.

Credits

3.0

Offered

Fall Semester

LWCJ 402A Pre-Law Clinic Seminar II

Prerequisites: Completion of LWCJ 401A and LWCJ 401B and by permission of the instructor. The Pre-Law Clinic II permits students to continue their PTC client and project work through the spring semester.

Credits

3.0

Offered

Spring Semester

LWCJ 402B Pre-Law Clinic II

Corequisite: LWCJ 401A and LWCJ 401B and by permission of the instructor. The Pre-Law Clinic II permits students to continue their PTC client and project work through the spring semester.

Credits

3.0

Offered

Spring Semester

CJ 470 Sr Seminar in Criminal Justice

Prerequisite: CJ 230 This course is the capstone experience for the criminal justice focus area in the Law and Criminal Justice major. It is a topics course in which students will collectively explore a current trend or issue in criminal justice and then work individually on a research project of their choice.

Credits

3.0

Offered

Spring Semester

LWCJ 499 Departmental Honors

Prerequisite: By invitation of the department. The departmental honors paper is a two-semester senior-year program designed for students who wish to pursue intensive research or special projects in close coordination with faculty advisers. Departmental honors students are known as the Christine P. Tischer Scholars and receive 6 credits for this work.

Credits

6.0

Offered

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