Class registration is this week. For some students, this will be the first time you all register for law school classes on your own! Trust me, there are no wrong course selections (unless of course you take 20 hours in one semester). Here are a few tips to help guide you when registering for classes:
- Every semester: Once you have flexibility to register for courses take one course just because it interests you. Life is short, law school is even shorter, live a little and do something you're actually interested in!
- Take what everyone says about certain professors with a grain of salt. The way other people learn may not be the same way you learn. You may like one professor's teaching style while another student may find that it was too fast pace. Pay attention to what your peers say, but do not let their opinion drive your decision.
- Take Bar Courses. At Capital University Law School, we offer a schedule that color coordinates the classes offered each semester, even the summer semesters! You can find this online at https://law.capital.edu/Course_Schedules/ It lists all the courses that will be taught on the bar exam so you don't have to go looking on the National Conference of Bar Examiner's website to determine which courses are tested on the bar.
- When planning, pay attention to your courses needed for graduation. In webadvisor, there is a link that takes you to your academic evaluation sheet. This sheet lays out all of the courses you have taken, are currently taking, will take in the future, and need to take before graduation. It is a helpful guide to which classes are offered as perspectives, experiential, and upper level writing courses. To access this page, log onto webadvisor, click the program evaluation link, choose the JD. LAW program, and VOILA!
GET TO SCHEDULING!!!!
