Class contemplates learniing through service. Class includes discussion of skills, including experiences in placements, and paper regarding placement experiences. Class requires paper regarding skills in light of experiences in placement using skills, and paper is graded. Service recipients evaluate service. The supervising attorneys must evaluate the students' work, and sometimes the clients served are also offered an opportunity to evaluate.
Service develops civic education.
All placements are public interest law offices, and students see poor and disabled clients. Knowledge enhances service. Skills class provides model for skills in preparation for service. Learning from other class members. Students present papers regarding their experiences and relation of experience to course theories to small groups in the class.