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Curriculum: Concentrations
Drexel
University College of Law will offer a standard law school curriculum,
to ensure that its graduates are well-equipped to pass the bar
examination upon graduation and to be competent legal professionals.
That means that it will offer its students classes in all of
the subjects that are tested on the bar examination; and that
Drexel Law students (like students in any law school) may pursue
a general program in the law. A rich variety of upper-division
courses will be complemented by the co-op program and clinical
opportunities.
The
College of Law’s initial areas of concentration will reflect
the strengths of Drexel University, key areas of legal practice
in the Philadelphia and mid-Atlantic region, and developing areas
of law. The curriculum will therefore develop academic concentrations
in three of today’s most cutting-edge areas of law practice,
where the opportunities for employment are expanding: Intellectual
Property, Health
Law, and Business
and Entrepreneurship Law. These concentrations will encompass
not only classroom courses, but also co-ops, clinics, and research
opportunities for students.
Exceptional
faculty to provide leadership in these areas have either already
been appointed or will be among key faculty additions over the
next two years. Specific concentration program requirements will
be determined in ample time for all students currently enrolled
or who will matriculate in 2007, so that they can take advantage
of the opportunities available. Other concentrations may be identified
in consideration of student interest and faculty resources.
The
concentrations will not be required; they will be electives for
our students. The College of Law will offer courses in every
important area of legal knowledge and practice, public and private,
regional, national and international, and that whether a student
chooses to undertake a particular concentration, he or she will
graduate with a J.D. degree which will reflect an education that
fully qualifies the recipient to enter the practice of law anywhere
in the United States.
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