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Legal Studies

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Director: Paul Kramer
Assessment Coordinator: Paul Kramer
Degrees Offered: B.S.
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Student Learning Outcomes

  1. Students will demonstrate the ability to identify and analyze complex legal issues, show competence in legal research utilizing the full range of reference materials including computerized databases and demonstrate their understanding of the uniform rules of legal citation.

  2. Students will display an understanding of contemporary critiques of legal issues, be able to organize and structure substantive written essays in the field of jurisprudence in a coherent and logical manner, present and defend original ideas, recognize possible objections to their claims and be able to respond to such objections.

  3. Students will verify they have the capacity to solve complex multi-stage theoretical problems involving logical reasoning, analytical thinking and logical argumentation.

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