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Program Description
The Paralegal Studies Associate Degree Program
The Paralegal Studies program provides educational opportunities
to individuals that will enable them to succeed as legal assistants
while taking care to ensure that Paralegal Studies students
understand the legal proscription against the unauthorized
practice of law by those who are not licensed to practice.
The general studies component of the curriculum is added to
develop written, oral, and computational skills and to provide
breadth to the curriculum in the areas of humanities, behavioral
sciences, and mathematics. The associate degree program provides
graduates with the opportunity for potential career mobility
and facilitates continuing education at the baccalaureate
level.
Graduates are eligible to sit for a voluntary national certification
exam. Program graduates are to be competent in the areas of
communications; mathematics; interpersonal relations; real
estate; civil and criminal litigation; legal research and
writing; family law, wills, trusts, and probate administration;
torts; and contracts. The program is approved by the American
Bar Association.
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