{"id":161,"date":"2015-04-10T17:05:19","date_gmt":"2015-04-10T17:05:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/politicalscience-draft\/?page_id=161"},"modified":"2025-02-07T19:36:54","modified_gmt":"2025-02-07T19:36:54","slug":"pre-law-curriculum","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/politicalscience\/academics\/pre-law-program\/pre-law-curriculum\/","title":{"rendered":"Pre-Law Curriculum"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Pre-Law Program<\/h1>\n<section class=\"cl-wrapper cl-menu-wrapper\"><nav id=\"\" class=\"cl-menu  \" data-name=\"pre-law-program\" data-show-title=\"0\"><ul id=\"menu-pre-law-program\" class=\"cl-menu-list cl-menu-list-no-js\"><li id=\"menu-item-1382\" class=\"menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-1382\"><a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/politicalscience\/academics\/pre-law-program\/\">Overview<\/a><\/li>\n<li id=\"menu-item-1391\" class=\"menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-1391\"><a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/politicalscience\/academics\/pre-law-program\/pre-law-curriculum\/\">Curriculum<\/a><\/li>\n<li id=\"menu-item-1385\" class=\"menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-1385\"><a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/politicalscience\/academics\/pre-law-program\/pre-law-application-guide\/\">Law School Application Guide<\/a><\/li>\n<li id=\"menu-item-1388\" class=\"menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-1388\"><a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/politicalscience\/academics\/pre-law-program\/pre-law-careers\/\">Careers<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/nav><\/section>\n<h2>Curriculum<\/h2>\n<p>There are no specific &#8220;Pre-law&#8221; requirements for admission to law school, aside from the Bachelor of Arts or Bachelor of Science&nbsp;degree. The Law School Admissions Council and the Association of American Law Schools, which supervise law school admissions and accreditation, recommend that you&nbsp;acquire a broad based education and possess excellent reading, writing, and analytical skills.<\/p>\n<p>You&nbsp;are encouraged to seek out courses which place heavy emphasis on reading and writing. In addition, it is wise to take classes which prepare you&nbsp;for alternative careers should you decide not to attend law school. While there are many law related courses at the University which may be of interest to law school-bound students, none of these should be considered a prerequisite or even an aid to law school admission,&nbsp;but&nbsp;these courses may help a student determine whether they are really interested in the law.<\/p>\n<h3>Options<\/h3>\n<p>Since there are no specific course requirements, there are a wide range of&nbsp;options for undergraduate study.&nbsp;Prelaw students have pursued undergraduate degrees in the sciences, language, business, political science, history, engineering, pharmacy, English, art, economics, theatre and any other major offered at the University.<\/p>\n<p>Many&nbsp;have gone on for graduate degrees in their major fields prior to going to law school. As the law school curriculum is geared toward general private practice and the bar exam, specialization within law often depends on what a student has done as an undergraduate or graduate student in a field other than law.<\/p>\n<h2>Available Courses&nbsp;<\/h2>\n<p><em>Learning about the Law<br \/>\n<\/em><span style=\"font-family: Charter, Georgia, serif;font-size: 20px\">PSC 113: Intro to American Politics (A2, C1)<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Charter, Georgia, serif;font-size: 20px\">PSC 334: Government Powers and the Law<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Charter, Georgia, serif;font-size: 20px\">PSC 371: Constitution and the Supreme Court<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Charter, Georgia, serif;font-size: 20px\">PSC 388: American Legal System<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Charter, Georgia, serif;font-size: 20px\">PSC 472: Civil Liberties (D1)<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Charter, Georgia, serif;font-size: 20px\">SOC\/CCJ\/PSC 274: Criminal Justice System<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Charter, Georgia, serif;font-size: 20px\">ECN\/PSC 333: Economics and the Law<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Charter, Georgia, serif;font-size: 20px\">HIS 141: History of the US to 1877 (A3, C1)<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Charter, Georgia, serif;font-size: 20px\">HIS 142: History of the US since 1877 (A3, C3)<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Charter, Georgia, serif;font-size: 20px\">HIS 340: US History from 1914 to 1941<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Charter, Georgia, serif;font-size: 20px\">HIS 341: US History from 1941 to 1974 (A3, C3)<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Charter, Georgia, serif;font-size: 20px\">HIS 342: US History from 1968 to 2001 (B1, C3)<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Charter, Georgia, serif;font-size: 20px\">HIS 361: Laws &amp; Outlaws: Rhode Island Legal History<\/p>\n<p><\/span><em style=\"font-family: Charter, Georgia, serif;font-size: 20px\">Analytical Reasoning<br \/>\n<\/em>PHIL 101: Critical Thinking (A3, B3)<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: Charter, Georgia, serif;font-size: 20px\">PHIL 205: Philosophical Foundations<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Charter, Georgia, serif;font-size: 20px\">PHIL 314: Ethical Problems in Society and Medicine<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Charter, Georgia, serif;font-size: 20px\">PHIL 321: Ancient Philosophy<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Charter, Georgia, serif;font-size: 20px\">PHIL 323: Modern Philosophy: Descartes to Kant<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Charter, Georgia, serif;font-size: 20px\">HIS 363: Applied History and Policy (A3, B1)<\/p>\n<p><\/span><em style=\"font-family: Charter, Georgia, serif;font-size: 20px\">Reading, Writing, and Research<br \/>\n<\/em>ENG 121: OUTRAGE: The Literature of Protest and Dissent (A3, C1)<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: Charter, Georgia, serif;font-size: 20px\">ENG 350: Introduction to Literary and Cultural Theory<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Charter, Georgia, serif;font-size: 20px\">ENG 356: Literature and Law<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Charter, Georgia, serif;font-size: 20px\">WRT 106: Introduction to Research Writing (B1, B4)<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Charter, Georgia, serif;font-size: 20px\">WRT 290: Writing with AI<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Charter, Georgia, serif;font-size: 20px\">WRT 303: Public Writing<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Charter, Georgia, serif;font-size: 20px\">WRT 321G: The Ethics of Representation (B1, C1, G)<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pre-Law Program Curriculum There are no specific &#8220;Pre-law&#8221; requirements for admission to law school, aside from the Bachelor of Arts or Bachelor of Science&nbsp;degree. The Law School Admissions Council and the Association of American Law Schools, which supervise law school admissions and accreditation, recommend that you&nbsp;acquire a broad based education and possess excellent reading, writing, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":581,"featured_media":0,"parent":48,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-161","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/politicalscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/politicalscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/politicalscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/politicalscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/581"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/politicalscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/politicalscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2732,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/politicalscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/161\/revisions\/2732"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/politicalscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/48"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/politicalscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}