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- Effective Term:
- Summer 2014 through Fall 2014
- Course Number:
- PL 128
- Course Title:
- Legal Correspondence and Forms
- Credit Hours:
- 3
- Lecture Hours:
- 30
- Lecture/Lab Hours:
- 0
- Lab Hours:
- 0
Course Description
Addendum to Course Description
An elective satisfying the requirements of either a Legal Assistant Certificate or an Associate of Applied Science degree.
Intended Outcomes for the course
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Course Activities and Design
Lectures with class discussion. Students may be required to prepare and participate in discussions of particular subjects. Also requires
extensive reading and weekly writing assignments (in and/or out of class).
Outcome Assessment Strategies
Grades will be based upon student performance on writing assignments, and possibly a final exam, designed to measure mastery of competencies listed below.
Course Content (Themes, Concepts, Issues and Skills)
Identify following elements in case opinions: parties, their
objectives and theories, procedural posture, holdings, dictum, and
disposition.
* Write grammatically and clearly using techniques such as
parallelism, positive phrasing and active voice to strengthen your
argument.
* Utilize techniques of fact comparison, rule of law comparison,
primary and secondary authority, and legislative history to give
your arguments legal support.
* Understand the content and form distinctions amongst different
types of legal writing so as to produce professionally acceptable
examples of legal letters, legal memos, etc.