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PARALEGAL CERTIFICATEThis program is designed to meet the needs of both workingand traditional students. The certificate courses can becompleted in one year if taken on a full-time basis.Outstanding faculty, comprised of practicing attorneys, guidestudents in their coursework and their professional goals.Students and alumni of this program are supported by anextensive on-campus law library that offers the most relevantand recent cutting-edge education available.The Paralegal certificate program consists of 12 legal specialtycourses. Of those, nine are required and three are elective.Each course carries upper-division credit. Each course followsan 11-week quarter and meets for two and one-half hoursper week. Normally, students take no more than three legalspecialty courses per quarter.Courses Units Prerequisite(s) Co-Requisite(s)PLS 3001 Introduction to Law 1 3PLS 3002 Legal Research and Writing I 1 3PLS 3003 Legal Research and Writing II 3 PLS 3002PLS 3004 Ethics/Professional Responsibility 3PLS 3005 Tort Law 3PLS 3006 Contract Law 3PLS 3007 Property 3PLS 3008 Litigation I 3 PLS 3002PLS 3009 Litigation II 3 PLS 3008Select THREE of the following courses 9PLS 3015 Wills, Trusts, and Estate Planning (3) PLS 3001, PLS 3002PLS 3017 Probate and Estates Administration (3) PLS 3001, PLS 3002PLS 3019 Bankruptcy and Creditors’ Rights (3) PLS 3001, PLS 3002PLS 3021 Real Estate Law (3) PLS 3001, PLS 3002PLS 3023 Criminal Practice (3) PLS 3001, PLS 3002PLS 3025 Business Organizations (3) PLS 3001, PLS 3002PLS 3027 Family Law (3) PLS 3001, PLS 3002PLS 3040 Internship (1–3) 2 PLS 3002, PLS 3008Total units required 361This course must be taken in the first term of enrollment.2The number of units earned will depend on the amount of time spent working at the internship. There is a classroom component to theinternship program.90 SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENTJOHN F. KENNEDY UNIVERSITY