Post-Baccalaureate & Graduate Student Alert

If you are a post-baccalaureate or graduate Paralegal Studies student, it is IMPERATIVE that you read and follow the instructions below. There has been an essential change in the procedure for program completion for post-baccalaureate students.

For all students completing the Paralegal Studies Post-BA Certificate Program, the Office of the Registrar will evaluate your credentials for the issuance of your paralegal certificate.

To initiate this process, you must file the Application for Final Degree/Certification Audit with the Registrar's Office.

The last possible date to file for program completion is:

October 1 for May completion

March 1 for August completion

June 1 for January completion

The new process for program completion makes it YOUR responsibility to file for final certificate audit. The deadlines are absolute. You will NOT receive your certificate until the following semester unless you file in a timely fashion.

Curriculum Announcement [Spring 2006]

The Internet and the evolving market for computer software provided the ultimate challenge to intellectual property law.  Not only can digital pictures be displayed and transmitted, but also they can be copied bit for bit, pixel for pixel, in a perfectly infringing replica. Today across a global economy in which images and data bounce from satellite to country to computer, images and data are licensed and managed by a multitude of domestic and international companies.  The video images appearing as the credits scroll on the beginning of “Sex in the City” are licensed from the video archives of Getty Images, an international image broker.  Digital reprints of articles and excerpts of  books are bought and sold through copyright clearing houses,  cyber-sleuths stalk the Internet in search of trademark infringing or trademark tarnishing material.  Undeniably, the market for intellectual property experts who buy, sell, manage, and enforce copyright, trademark, and licensing is growing. After years of planning, The Legal Studies Department is introducing a new concentration to add into its Master's program, Intellectual Property.

Course Announcement [Spring 2006]

The Legal Studies Department is introducing a new class for its Dispute Resolution Concentration. Bullying Prevention [LSLW 560] provides students with the theory of bullying prevention in educational settings. Students will critically analyze curriculum targeted to support bullying prevention, study state laws regarding bullying prevention and harassment, and enhance the connections with conflict resolution and related fields.