LAW 5907 - Field Placement - Practice

Credit(s): 3
Prerequisite(s): Successful completion of first-year Legal Writing program. This course will be taught online and asynchronously. Enrollment by application and permission of instructor.
This course is required for all students participating in a field placement who have never before taken a field placement course. In this course, students will be placed in volunteer extern positions with local, state, or federal government agencies, judicial chambers, or public interest and not-for-profit organizations.

Students participating in this course must complete a minimum of 120 hours of work for their host placement. Students participating in this course must also participate in and complete an online asynchronous course component designed to support the student as a newcomer to legal practice. The course component will focus on the study of lawyers and their roles and obligations, with emphasis on learning how to learn from experience, lawyering skills and competencies, ethics and morality, cross-cultural competence, and career planning.

This course is graded on the experiential learning scaled Pass/Fail system. The course is graded Pass/Fail (E, HP, P, F).