This may result in at least a year's delay in the completion of degree requirements. Registration for less than eight semester hours during the fall and spring semesters must be approved by the Office of the Associate Dean. Moreover, credit toward a degree will not be given for otherwise creditable law school courses completed more than six years prior to a student's projected date of graduation. When, in a given semester, a course is offered both as a day class and as an evening class, students will not be permitted to attend by alternating between such classes during the semester but must attend the one for which they are enrolled that semester. Students may elect to enroll in either a day or evening course.
All students begin their studies with eight basic courses.
These courses provide the foundation and prerequisites for further legal studies. Part-time students defer civil procedure and torts until the second year of their program. The other required courses can be taken as offered and available to students in their second and third years. These courses include constitutional law, evidence, professional responsibility, and litigation. All required courses must be taken by a student at the earliest time they occur in the program in which he or she is enrolled.