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BACHELOR OF LAWS
BACHELOR OF LAWS
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PROGRAM DESCRIPTION:
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An LL.B. is awarded to students who complete the three-year program without an earned bachelor degree.
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REQUIREMENTS:
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- Completion of three years law coursework
- Payment of all fees
- 108 quarter credits of law school study
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PREREQUISITES:
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120 semester credits/180 quarter credits.
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INSTRUCTIONAL METHODS:
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DISTANCE EDUCATION
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CURRICULUM:
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(CORE REQUIREMENTS)
Contracts
Torts
Criminal Law
Legal Writing
Constitutional Law
Evidence
Criminal Procedure
Corporations
Agency and
Partnership
Wills and Trusts
Federal Taxation |
COURSE OUTLINES / SYLLABI
1. Course Designation:
1.1 School: Law and Legal Studies
1.2 Department: Law
1.3 Course Number: LLB 250
Title: Contracts
1.4 Recommended Text List:
- The Law of Contracts & The Uniform Commercial Code
FACULTY AND/OR STUDENT WILL SELECT A CURRENT EDITION
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- Course Objectives: Student will exhibit reasonable proficiency in field of concentration.
- Course Description: Course examines the sorts of promises that are enforced and the nature of protection given promissory obligations in both commercial and noncommercial transactions. Inquiry is made into the means by which traditional doctrine adjusts--or fails to adjust--to changing social demands.
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1. Course Designation:
1.1 School: Law and Legal Studies
1.2 Department: Law
1.3 Course Number: LLB 251
Title: Torts
1.4 Recommended Text List:
- Torts: Personal Injury Litigation, 2nd ed., William P. Statsky
FACULTY AND/OR STUDENT WILL SELECT A CURRENT EDITION
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- Course Objectives: Student will be able to analyze problems in field of concentration.
- Course Description: The course seeks to analyze civil actions based upon wrongs such as assault, battery, false imprisonment, negligence, strict liability, defamation, invasion of privacy and misrepresentation. Alternatives to the present tort compensation system are also considered.
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1. Course Designation:
1.1 School: Law and Legal Studies
1.2 Department: Law
1.3 Course Number: LLB 252
Title: Criminal Law
1.4 Recommended Text List:
FACULTY AND/OR STUDENT WILL SELECT A CURRENT EDITION
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- Course Objectives: Student will exhibit knowledge about criminal law.
- Course Description: Study of the bases and limits of criminal liability. Coverage of the constitutional, statutory and case law rules which define, limit and provide defenses to individual liability for the major criminal offenses.
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1. Course Designation:
1.1 School: Law and Legal Studies
1.2 Department: Law
1.3 Course Number: LLB 253
Title: Constitutional Law
1.4 Recommended Text List:
FACULTY AND/OR STUDENT WILL SELECT A CURRENT EDITION
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- Course Objectives: Student will know constitutional law.
- Course Description: Separation of powers, including the case and controversy doctrines and powers of the President. Division of powers between the national government and the states. Limitations on governmental regulations of economic interests and fundamental personal interests under due process clauses. Due process and procedure. The state action concept.
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1. Course Designation:
1.1 School: Law and Legal Studies
1.2 Department: Law
1.3 Course Number: LLB 254
Title: Criminal Procedure
1.4 Recommended Text List:
FACULTY AND/OR STUDENT WILL SELECT A CURRENT EDITION
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- Course Objectives: Student will know criminal procedures
- Course Description: The police function: arrest, search and seizure, electronic surveillance, entrapment, police interrogation and confessions, lineups, the exclusionary rule, the role of counsel. Selected problems in post-arrest phases of the criminal process.
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1. Course Designation:
1.1 School: Law and Legal Studies
1.2 Department: Law
1.3 Course Number: LLB 255
Title: Federal Taxation
1.4 Recommended Text List:
- Federal Taxation, Susan Coving
FACULTY AND/OR STUDENT WILL SELECT A CURRENT EDITION
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- Course Objectives: Student can show reasonable efficiency in field of concentration.
- Course Description: Introductory federal income tax course which considers the identification of income subject to tax, assignment of income, deductions, timing of income and deductions and the distinction between capital gains and ordinary income.
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1. Course Designation:
1.1 School: Law and Legal Studies
1.2 Department: Law
1.3 Course Number: LLB 256
Title: Wills and Trusts
1.4 Recommended Text List:
- Wills, trusts, and Estate Administration for Paralegals, Mark A. Stewart.
FACULTY AND/OR STUDENT WILL SELECT A CURRENT EDITION
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- Course Objectives: Student can show reasonable efficiency in field of concentration.
- Course Description: Introductory federal income tax course which considers the identification of income subject to tax, assignment of income, deductions, timing of income and deductions and the distinction between capital gains and ordinary income.
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1. Course Designation:
1.1 School: Law and Legal Studies
1.2 Department: Law
1.3 Course Number: LLB 257
Title: Corporations
1.4 Recommended Text List:
FACULTY AND/OR STUDENT WILL SELECT A CURRENT EDITION
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- Course Objectives: Student will exhibit knowledge and understanding in field of concentration.
- Course Description: The formation of corporations and their management, the relations between shareholders and officers and directors, the impact of federal legislation on directors' duties, and the special problems of the closed corporation.
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1. Course Designation:
1.1 School: Law and Legal Studies
1.2 Department: Law
1.3 Course Number: LLB 258
Title: Agency and Partnership
1.4 Recommended Text List:
FACULTY AND/OR STUDENT WILL SELECT A CURRENT EDITION
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- Course Objectives: Student can show reasonable efficiency in field of concentration.
- Course Description: The rights and liabilities of the principal, the agent and third parties with respect to each other, including the concepts of vicarious tort liability, apparent authority, ratification, imputation of knowledge and the undisclosed principal are covered as well as the partnership form of doing business or investing.
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1. Course Designation:
1.1 School: Law and Legal Studies
1.2 Department: Law
1.3 Course Number: LLB 259
Title: Evidence
1.4 Recommended Text List:
FACULTY AND/OR STUDENT WILL SELECT A CURRENT EDITION
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- Course Objectives: Student will know current methods of research in field of concentration.
- Course Description: Basic methods and forms in the adjudicative process, responsibility for proof, judicial notice, examination and competence of lay and expert witnesses, privileged communications, relevancy, opinion and scientific evidence, real proof, writings and hearsay.
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1. Course Designation:
1.1 School: Law and Legal Studies
1.2 Department: Law
1.3 Course Number: LLB 260
Title: Legal Writing
1.4 Recommended Text List:
FACULTY AND/OR STUDENT WILL SELECT A CURRENT EDITION
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- Course Objectives: Student will have developed the ability to write good legal papers and research.
- Course Description: Tests and mimeographed materials. Materials and methods of legal research and writing. After intensive consideration of the types of law books and their functions, student prepares written material of various kinds designed to develop both research technique and writing style.
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