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  • 3.00 Credits

    LEGL 1700 Legal Analysis (3L,3CR) Covers briefing, legal analysis, and synthesizing skills. Students will brief, analyze and synthesize cases on substantial law issues. Prerequisite: LEGL 1610 or concurrent enrollment.
  • 3.00 Credits

    LEGL 1710 Legal Research and Writing I (3L,3CR) Covers the basic tools of legal research: citation, federal and state decisions, digests, statutes, law reviews, the use of Shepard's and Westlaw. Students complete research exercises and write an interoffice memorandum. Prerequisite: LEGL 1610 or permission of the instructor.
  • 3.00 Credits

    LEGL 1720 Legal Research and Writing II (3L,3CR) Covers legal writing, fact investigation, interviewing fact witnesses, drafting witness statements and legal drafting. Prerequisite: LEGL 1710.
  • 3.00 Credits

    LEGL 2500 Civil Procedure (3L,3CR) Uses the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and the Wyoming Rules of Civil Procedure to teach service of process, filing, discovery, and execution of judgments. Includes the drafting of pleadings and discovery documents, digesting depositions, compiling a medical chronology and case management. Prerequisite: LEGL 1610.
  • 3.00 Credits

    LEGL 2550 Litigation Support (3L,3CR) Covers substantive tort law in the framework of a trial. Students learn skills necessary to perform as litigation assistants organizing a trial notebook, working with experts, preparing exhibits, and researching motions. Prerequisite: LEGL 2500.
  • 3.00 Credits

    LEGL 2610 Family Law (3L,3CR) Covers the substantive law of domestic relations with specific emphasis on the role of the paralegal in these cases.
  • 1.00 - 3.00 Credits

    LEGL 2970 Legal Assistant Internship (1-3CR) (Max 6) Students are placed in a law firm, clerk's office, public defender's office, district attorney's office, or other appropriate legal environment. Students will be provided the opportunity to work as paralegals under the supervision of a lawyer and the instructor. Prerequisite: LEGL 1710 and LEGL 2500.
  • 1.00 - 6.00 Credits

    LEGL 2975 Independent Studies for the Legal Assistant (1-3CR) (Max 6) Faculty-guided research in areas of law relevant to a paralegal career. Students should be given the opportunity to research legal cases, law review articles and other materials. Students will be required to complete projects which will refine their paralegal skills. Prerequisite: LEGL 1710.
  • 3.00 Credits

    LIBS 2280 Literature for Children (3L,3CR) [E] A survey course designed for reading and discussion of works of literature for children. Selection of children's books for school, home, and library is stressed. In order to establish criteria for evaluation, students are expected to become acquainted with a wide sampling of children's literature including classics, both old and new. Prerequisite: ENGL 1020.
  • 4.00 Credits

    LIFE 1020 Life Science (3L,3LB,4CR) [E]This is an introductory course emphasizing principles of biology including cell structure and function, genetics, ecology, evolution and organismal biology. The applications of these principles to societal issues such as the conservation of biodiversity, overpopulation and global environmental changes, biotechnology, and human wellness and disease are also considered. This course fulfills a laboratory science requirement for non-biology majors such as those in the socialand behavioral sciences, humanistic studies, etc.