Pre-Law
UW-Eau Claire's pre-professional study programs prepare you to transfer to another institution for the completion of a professional degree or prepare you for graduate study after obtaining a bachelor's degree. Because the specific requirements of professional schools vary considerably, you should obtain current catalogues from the schools in which you are interested. A pre-professional adviser at UW-Eau Claire will then help you plan an appropriate curriculum.
Pre-Law program
The UW-Eau Claire pre-law program is not a major, but includes a selection of courses that will satisfy the general education requirements at UW-Eau Claire and prepare you for the law school admissions test and law school. A career in law requires a bachelor's degree in a major of your choice, followed by a three-year program in law school. You should declare the pre-law designation with the political science department chair so that you can be assigned to a pre-law adviser.
You should choose a major and minor of interest to you and also keep an alternative career plan in mind. You may wish to consider the comprehensive political science major with legal studies emphasis or the topical pre-law minor. Your pre-law adviser will help you choose an appropriate major and minor once you have sampled a variety of courses from different departments.
Placement
UW-Eau Claire graduates fare very well in seeking admission into law school. UW-Eau Claire several students each year into UW-Madison. In addition, graduates regularly attend the University of Minnesota, Hamline University, William Mitchell and Marquette. Other recent graduates have attended Indiana University, Boston University, Chicago-Kent, Drake, Northwestern, Northern Illinois and Southern Illinois.
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High school preparation
- Students who plan to pursue a degree in law should take additional courses to improve writing skills, reading comprehension and analytical reasoning. These skills are most important for success in the pre-law program.
- All students who enroll at UW-Eau Claire are required to have a minimum of 17 college preparatory units including:
– 4 years of English (at least 3 composition and literature)
– 2 years of a single foreign language
– 3 years of math (algebra, geometry, 1 advanced college preparatory math)
– 3 years of natural science
– 3 years of social science (1 must be world or American history)
– 2 additional units in the areas already mentioned or other academic areas
Freshman course work (sample first year)
Fall Semester
- Engl 110, Introduction to College Writing, 5 credits
- Econ 103, Principles in Microeconomics, 3 credits
- Pols 110, American National Politics, 3 credits
- Math competency course, 4 credits
Spring Semester
- Engl 201, Advanced College Writing 3 credits
- Econ 104, Principles in Macroeconomics, 3 credits
- Natural Science General Education Elective, 4 credits
- Phil 150, Logic I, 3 credits
- Hist 201, United States History to 1877, 3 credits
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