Course Title:
Advanced Writing for Prelaw
Course Description:
Provides instruction in writing for students considering legal careers. Introduces students to legal reasoning and to the contexts, purposes, genres, audiences, and styles of legal writing. Emphasizes the role of writing and argument in American legal culture. Using strategies drawn from rhetorical theory and criticism, students examine briefs, memoranda, opinions, and other legal texts to identify and describe techniques of analysis and persuasion. Students produce their own arguments and analyses, attending to appropriateness of approach, genre, structure, evidence, and style. Does not duplicate the content of legal writing courses in law schools, most of which emphasize legal research as well as writing, but instead helps students develop the conceptual frameworks necessary for success in law school and legal careers.
Fall Offering:
Every
Lab/Coreq 1:
Spring Offering:
Every
Lab/Coreq 2:
Summer Offering:
Lab/Coreq Remarks:
Summer 1 Offering:
Prerequisite 1:
ENG U111
Summer 2 Offering:
Prerequisite 2:
Cross-Listed Course 1:
Prerequisite 3:
Cross-Listed Course 2:
Prerequisite 4:
Cross-Listed Course 3:
Prerequisite 5:
Cross-Listed Course 4:
Prerequisite Remarks:
Or equivalent and 56 SH toward degree.
Cross-Listed Course 5:
Repeatable:
N
Additional Information:
Approved course: Advanced Writing in Disciplines
Approved course: NU Core-Advanced Writing in Disciplines
