LAW 5108 - Introduction to the Study of Law

This course teaches incoming students how to succeed in law school by learning how to learn and apply the law. The methods of the course are not based on anecdotes or outdated presumptions about learning, but on educational psychology—the science of learning. Instead of leaving students to teach themselves how to study law, as was often the case in the traditional law school model, this course expressly details the best practices for the study of law. Materials in the course are coordinated with students’ other first-semester professors, and faculty members have substantial input into the materials and methods of this course. By contextualizing the materials of this course within the scope of the law you are learning in other first-year courses, the skills students learn here become more immediately relevant.

Credits: 1