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DOCTOR OF JURISPRUDENCE
WELCOME TO AN 'OVERVIEW' OF DEGREE OPTIONS AVAILABLE OVER THE PAST 35 YEARS. THE DESCRIPTIONS BELOW ARE FOR INFORMATIONAL AND EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES. THERE IS NO GUARANTEE ANY LISTED DEGREE MAY BE COMPLETED AT THIS TIME. ADMISSION TO ANY PROGRAM REQUIRES AN APPLICATION, LISTING QUALIFICATIONS AND THE APPROVAL OF THE ADMISSIONS COMMITTEE OF CULA. ALL PROGRAMS ARE NON-BAR. CULA RECOMMENDS THAT YOU MAKE APPLICATION, INDICATE YOUR ACADEMIC BACKGROUND, AND REQUESTED THE DEGREE OF YOUR CHOICE. YOU WILL BE ADVISED BY PROFESSIONAL EDUCATORS. GO FOR IT!
DOCTOR OF JURISPRUDENCE
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PROGRAM DESCRIPTION:
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An academic law degree, focused much like a Ph.D. in research, methodology and originality.
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REQUIREMENTS:
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- Three years cumulative postgraduate study, a law school degree, licensure and/or professional qualifications in law and legal aspects.
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PREREQUISITES:
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At least a master degree in a related field, an LL.B. or Juris Doctor or other graduate certification in jurisprudence
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INSTRUCTIONAL METHODS:
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DISTANCE EDUCATION
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CURRICULUM:
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(CORE REQUIREMENTS)
Jurisprudence
Constitutional Law
Civil Procedure
Evidence
American Legal History
Criminal Procedure
Criminal Justice
Medicine law
Immigration Law and Procedure
Business Organizations
Debtor and Creditor
International Law
Labor Law
Juvenile Justice Process
Family Law
Appellate Advocacy
Administrative Law
Employment Discrimination |
COURSE OUTLINES / SYLLABI
1. Course Designation:
1.1 School: Law and Legal Studies
1.2 Department: Jurisprudence
1.3 Course Number: LAW 550
Title: Jurisprudence
1.4 Recommended Text List:
FACULTY AND/OR STUDENT WILL SELECT A CURRENT EDITION
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- Course Objectives: The student will be able to critically analyze problems in field of concentration.
- Course Description: Course considers the relationship between justice and law with special attention to the problem of how judges should decide hard cases where the intent of the law is in doubt.
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1. Course Designation:
1.1 School: Law and Legal Studies
1.2 Department: Jurisprudence
1.3 Course Number: LAW 551
Title: Constitutional Law
1.4 Recommended Text List:
FACULTY AND/OR STUDENT WILL SELECT A CURRENT EDITION
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- Course Objectives: The student will know what is currently written in field of concentration.
- Course Description: The function of the American Constitution: allocation of authority among branches of the national government; division of authority among branches of the national government; divisions of authority between the nation and the state; limitations of government control of the individual. The progress of constitutional interpretation and the role of the United States Supreme Court.
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1. Course Designation:
1.1 School: Law and Legal Studies
1.2 Department: Jurisprudence
1.3 Course Number: LAW 552
Title: Civil Procedure
1.4 Recommended Text List:
FACULTY AND/OR STUDENT WILL SELECT A CURRENT EDITION
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- Course Objectives: The student will exhibit advanced knowledge and understanding in field of concentration.
- Course Description: Topics covered are the relation between federal and state courts; the power of courts over persons, property and subject matter (jurisdiction); the scope of litigation (joinder of claims and parties); preparation for trial through pleading, discover, and pretrial; devices for resolving actions and issues before and during trial; functions of judge and jury; and the finality of the trial courts disposition.
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1. Course Designation:
1.1 School: Law and Legal Studies
1.2 Department: Jurisprudence
1.3 Course Number: LAW 553
Title: Evidence
1.4 Recommended Text List:
FACULTY AND/OR STUDENT WILL SELECT A CURRENT EDITION
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- Course Objectives: The student will be able to critically analyze problems in field of concentration.
- Course Description: The purpose and character of trial. Problems of adversary presentation and the nature of proof. The basis for admission and exclusion of evidence in judicial proceedings.
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1. Course Designation:
1.1 School: Law and Legal Studies
1.2 Department: Jurisprudence
1.3 Course Number: LAW 554
Title: American Legal History
1.4 Recommended Text List:
FACULTY AND/OR STUDENT WILL SELECT A CURRENT EDITION
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- Course Objectives: The student will know the history of American Law.
- Course Description: Historical development of the contemporary American legal system; examination of the relation of law to main currents in political, social and economic thought.
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1. Course Designation:
1.1 School: Law and Legal Studies
1.2 Department: Jurisprudence
1.3 Course Number: LAW 555
Title: Criminal Procedure
1.4 Recommended Text List:
FACULTY AND/OR STUDENT WILL SELECT A CURRENT EDITION
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- Course Objectives: The student will show advanced knowledge and understanding in the field of concentration.
- Course Description: Criminal procedure in the courts and the regulation of law enforcement by the courts through rules of evidence and interpretation of the Bill of Rights.
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1. Course Designation:
1.1 School: Law and Legal Studies
1.2 Department: Jurisprudence
1.3 Course Number: LAW 556
Title: Criminal Justice
1.4 Recommended Text List:
FACULTY AND/OR STUDENT WILL SELECT A CURRENT EDITION
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- Course Objectives: The student will be able to critically analyze problems in the field of concentration.
- Course Description: Advanced study of the administration of criminal justice through intensive consideration of selected problems in substantive and procedural law.
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1. Course Designation:
1.1 School: Law and Legal Studies
1.2 Department: Jurisprudence
1.3 Course Number: LAW 557
Title: Medicine and Law
1.4 Recommended Text List:
FACULTY AND/OR STUDENT WILL SELECT A CURRENT EDITION
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- Course Objectives: The student will be able to critically analyze problems in the field of concentration.
- Course Description: The adversary system as a setting for medical-legal issues; examination of the medical expert, malpractice suits, physican-patient privilege. Medical terminology, medical literature and hospital and physician records. problems of proving causation.
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1. Course Designation:
1.1 School: Law and Legal Studies
1.2 Department: Jurisprudence
1.3 Course Number: LAW 558
Title: Immigration Law and Procedure
1.4 Recommended Text List:
FACULTY AND/OR STUDENT WILL SELECT A CURRENT EDITION
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- Course Objectives: The student will know what is currently written in the field of concentration.
- Course Description: Course will survey a brief history of United States immigration and policy and compare the policies of other countries; use of primary and secondary sources of immigration law; federal agency interrelationsip (Justice and State Department); entry of nonimmigrant (temporary) visitors and immigrants into the United States.
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1. Course Designation:
1.1 School: Law and Legal Studies
1.2 Department: Jurisprudence
1.3 Course Number: LAW 559
Title: International Law
1.4 Recommended Text List:
FACULTY AND/OR STUDENT WILL SELECT A CURRENT EDITION
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- Course Objectives: The student will exhibit knowledge and understanding in the field of concentration.
- Course Description: Course will examine national law systems and the interplay between them, international law, international organizations and individuals throughout the world. The shortcomings of the classical system of international law will be examined in the light of emerging problems foreseen for the last part of the past century.
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1. Course Designation:
1.1 School: Law and Legal Studies
1.2 Department: Jurisprudence
1.3 Course Number: LAW 560
Title: Labor Law
1.4 Recommended Text List:
FACULTY AND/OR STUDENT WILL SELECT A CURRENT EDITION
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- Course Objectives: The student will exhibit knowledge and understanding of Labor law.
- Course Description: Study of the law, primarily statutory relating to: (1) employee organization and the establishment of the collective bargaining relationship; (2) the negotiation of the collective bargaining agreement; and (3) the exertion of primary and secondary economic pressure.
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1. Course Designation:
1.1 School: Law and Legal Studies
1.2 Department: Jurisprudence
1.3 Course Number: LAW 561
Title: Juvenile Justice Program
1.4 Recommended Text List:
FACULTY AND/OR STUDENT WILL SELECT A CURRENT EDITION
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- Course Objectives: The student will be able to manage various tasks in the field of concentration.
- Course Description: Legal and philosophical bases of a separate juvenile justice process; police investigation, apprehension and diversion; probation intake and detention; juvenile court hearing and disposition; juvenile corrections. Major emphasis is on the emerging role of counsel at each phase of the process. Guest speakers and field trips.
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1. Course Designation:
1.1 School: Law and Legal Studies
1.2 Department: Jurisprudence
1.3 Course Number: LAW 562
Title: Family Law
1.4 Recommended Text List:
FACULTY AND/OR STUDENT WILL SELECT A CURRENT EDITION
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- Course Objectives: The student will be knowledgeable in the field of concentration.
- Course Description: Study of the family, using legal, psychoanalytic and other behavioral science in promulgation and administration of laws.
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1. Course Designation:
1.1 School: Law and Legal Studies
1.2 Department: Jurisprudence
1.3 Course Number: LAW 563
Title: Appellate Advocacy
1.4 Recommended Text List:
FACULTY AND/OR STUDENT WILL SELECT A CURRENT EDITION
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- Course Objectives: The student will have the ability to write in the field of concentration.
- Course Description: The litigation process from trial to appeal. Exercises in brief writing in an appellate case, criminal or civil. This course is intended to perfect legal writing skills.
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1. Course Designation:
1.1 School: Law and Legal Studies
1.2 Department: Jurisprudence
1.3 Course Number: LAW 564
Title: Administrative Law
1.4 Recommended Text List:
FACULTY AND/OR STUDENT WILL SELECT A CURRENT EDITION
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- Course Objectives: The student will understand administrative law.
- Course Description: The powers exercised by administrative agencies, principles governing trhe exercise of those powers and the legal remedies of persons aggrieved by administrative action will be examined. California as well as federal administrative law will be treated.
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1. Course Designation:
1.1 School: Law and Legal Studies
1.2 Department: Jurisprudence
1.3 Course Number: LAW 565
Title: Business Organizations
1.4 Recommended Text List:
FACULTY AND/OR STUDENT WILL SELECT A CURRENT EDITION
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- Course Objectives: The student will be able to critically analyze problems in the field of concentration.
- Course Description: Organization of economic activity-- especially the modern corporation--as institution of social power. The roles of managers, owners and public regulatory agencies in shaping processes of decision-making.
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1. Course Designation:
1.1 School: Law and Legal Studies
1.2 Department: Jurisprudence
1.3 Course Number: LAW 566
Title: Employment Discrimination
1.4 Recommended Text List:
FACULTY AND/OR STUDENT WILL SELECT A CURRENT EDITION
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- Course Objectives: The student will know what is currently written in the field of concentration.
- Course Description: Consideration of employment discrimination based upon race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, handicap and sexual orientation. Course will focus on Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and include coverage of Art 1981, ARt 1983, the Equal Pay and Age Discrimination Acts. State fair employment laws will also be discussed.
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1. Course Designation:
1.1 School: Law and Legal Studies
1.2 Department: Jurisprudence
1.3 Course Number: LAW 567
Title: Debtor and Creditor
1.4 Recommended Text List:
FACULTY AND/OR STUDENT WILL SELECT A CURRENT EDITION
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- Course Objectives: The student will exhibit knowledge and understanding in the field of concentration.
- Course Description: The first part concentrates upon remedies of unpaid creditors under state law and the protection of debtors through limitations on creditors such as exemption laws. The second part involves a study of Bankruptcy Code with emphasis upon ordinary bankruptcy.
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