Curriculum plans

During your time at the School of Law, you will have the opportunity to take a rich range of classes in both the day and evening divisions.

You will earn 87 credits before graduating taking an array of both required and elective courses. As a day student, your first year is structured. As an evening student your first two years are structured.  As an evening student, you can expect your first year evening classes generally to be scheduled between 5:45 p.m. and 9:00 p.m. Monday through Thursday, and your second year evening classes generally to be scheduled between 5:45 p.m. and 9:35 p.m. Monday through Thursday.  

Take a look at the curriculum plans to see what you can expect as a full-time day, part-time day, or evening student.

First Year Full Time Day

Fall Course	Spring Course
Torts	Introduction to Advocacy
Contracts I	Contracts II
Civil Procedure I	Civil Procedure II
Criminal Law	Property
Introduction to Lawyering Skills	Constitutional Law I
Total - 16 credits	Total - 16 credits

First Year Part Time Day

Fall Course	Spring Course
Civil Procedure	Introduction to Advocacy
Contracts I	Contracts II
Criminal Law	Civil Procedure II
Introduction to Lawyering Skills	Constitutional Law I
Total - 9 or 12 credits	Total - 12 credits

As a part-time day student, you may take Criminal Law in the summer after the first year if it is offered and if there is space available. If these are not taken over the summer, you may take those courses in the fall. You must take Torts in the Fall of your second year, and Property in the spring of your second year.

First Year Evening

Fall Course	Spring Course
Civil Procedure I	Introduction to Advocacy
Contracts I	Contracts II
Introduction to Lawyering Skills	Torts
Total - 9 credits	Total - 9 credits

Second Year Evening

Fall Course	Spring Course
Constitutional Law I	Constitutional Law II
Criminal Law	Property
Civil Procedure II	Elective
	Elective
Total - 10 credits	Total - 12 credits

* Although there are variations in the schedule from semester to semester, the first year evening program schedules classes between 5:45 p.m. and 9:00 p.m. Monday through Thursday, and the second year evening program schedules classes between 5:45 p.m. and 9:35 p.m. Monday through Thursday.