Please review carefully these requirements for graduation. If you have questions, please see the Registrar, Charlene Carpenter. When you are in the fall semester of your third year, you will receive a memorandum which summarizes the requirements you have yet to meet before you are eligible to graduate.

Seminar & Writing Requirement, every student must take and successfully complete:

1. One Seminar
For the purpose of this requirement, a seminar is a classroom course designated as such. Ordinarily, a course designated as a seminar has an enrollment limited to 15 students whose grades are based on the successful completion of a research paper no shorter than 30 pages and may also be based, in part, on class participation.

2. One of the following options:

• a casenote or comment for a law review or journal, or Articles Editor/Editor of the Human Rights Quarterly;
  
• the writing requirements for the Anderson Moot Court competition;
  
• a drafting course;
  
• an Individual Research Project;
  
• a second seminar.
  

   Note: An F, UWF or U grade does not constitute successful completion.

Second or Third-Year Required Course*
Legal Ethics (fall)
Client Counseling (spring)**

* In effect until 2012-2013
** Students may satisfy this requirement by completing the Ohio Innocence Project course sequence in
the second year or by completing the Intensive Practical Lawyering Skills course in the second year.

Grading:
A letter grade is given for all courses with the following exceptions: Moot Court, and law reviews and journals are graded on an "S" (satisfactory), "U" (unsatisfactory) or "F" (failing) basis. The field placement component of the Extern Programs are graded on an "HP" (pass with honors), "P" (pass), or "F" (failing) system. "HP", "P", "S" and "U" are not averaged with other grades in computing a student's grade average. Courses transferred from outside the law school are recorded as "S" or "U."

The grade A+ is reserved for work of exceptional quality. The grades of F, UWF (unauthorized withdrawal/failing), and U are failing grades.

The grading of students is indicated by the following letters and honor-point equivalents:

A+ = 4.33 B+ = 3.33 C+ = 2.33 D+ = 1.33 F = 0.00

A = 4.00 B = 3.00 C = 2.00 D = 1.00 UWF =0.00

A- = 3.67 B- = 2.67 C- = 1.67 D- = 0.67

Grade Point Average:
You must have at least a 2.0 cumulative GPA to graduate.

Classroom Credit Requirement:
It is a requirement for graduation that a student complete, in an aggregate of 90 semester hours, at least 77 classroom credit hours. All required and most elective courses and seminars are classified as classroom credit offerings. Non-classroom credit offerings include: Individual Research Project, law reviews and journals, Extern Programs, and Moot Court.

KEEP THIS INFORMATION FOR FUTURE REFERENCE.
INFORMATION IS SUBJECT TO CHANGE.

March 17, 2001