2010 Summer
Academic Enrichment -
Program Schedule & Assignments
Classes begin each day at 9:00
(except the first day, which begins at 8:30) and end at 4:30.
Wednesday, August 11
ASSIGNMENTS: Come to class having completed the following:
Read Chapters 1 and 2 in Law
School Materials for Success.
Brief the cases in Chapter 2 of Law
School Materials.
Think about questions you have about law school or law study.
SCHEDULE:
8:30 a.m. Breakfast and welcomes - Student Lounge
(all)
Program rationale and goals (all)
9:30 a.m. Rationale and
method of law school study (Section 1)
Room 2-101
Room 03
10:30 Break
10:45 Reading and briefing cases (Section 1)
Room
03
Rationale and method of law school
study (Section 2)
Room
2-101
12:30
Lunch (on your own)
1:30 p.m. The learning continuum (all)
Room
03
2:30 p.m. Break
2:45 p.m. The common law process (all)
Room 03
3:45 p.m. Managing Law Study (all)
Room
03
4:30 Adjourn
Thursday, August 12
ASSIGNMENTS: Come to class
having completed the following:
Read the assigned handout cases and
statutes for your classes.
Think about the cases and statutes in light of the material in the chapters you
have read.
Write case briefs and notes on the assigned cases and statutes.
Read Chapter 3 of
SCHEDULE:
9:00 Unemployment Law (What is going on in
class; how to take notes) (Section 1)
Room 2-101
Torts (The structure of legal
analysis) (Section 2)
Room 03
12:00
Lunch -- on your own
1:30 Torts (The structure
of legal Analysis) (Section 1)
Room
03
Unemployment
Law (What is going on in class; how to take notes) (Section 2)
Room
2-101
4:30 Adjourn
Friday,
August 13
ASSIGNMENTS: Come to class
having completed the following:
Read assigned cases and
materials.
Write case briefs and notes for class.
Think about how the cases and materials fit together and how they might be
applied in other cases.
Read Chapter 4 of
SCHEDULE:
9:00 a.m. Unemployment Law
(After-class study and review) (Section 1)
Room 03
Torts (The connection between law school & law practice)
(Section 2)
Room 2-101
11:30
a.m. Lunch on your own
12:30 p.m. Torts class (The
connection between law school & law practice) (Section 1)
Room 2-101
Unemployment Law
class (After-class study and review) (Section 2)
Courtroom
3:00 p.m. Break
3:15 p.m. Meet with structured study group and workshop leaders to
discuss preparing for exams and study group programs and resources
Courtroom
3:45 p.m. Exam Preparation
Courtroom
4:30 p.m. Adjourn
Monday,
August 16
ASSIGNMENTS: Come to class
having completed the following:
Read Chapters 5 and 6 of
Think about how you might be tested on Torts and Torts materials.
Write an exam preparation outline for Torts and Torts classes.
Read and brief cases for class.
Think about why the law is as it is; how the law could be different; how the
law could be used.
SCHEDULE
9:00 a.m. Unemployment Law
(Outlining systems) (Section 1)
Room
03
Torts (Section 2)(Recipes
for Disaster)
Room
2-101
11:30 a.m. Lunch -- on your own
12:30 p.m. Torts (Section 2) (Recipes for Disaster)
Room
2-101
Unemployment Law (Outlining systems)
(Section 1)
Room
03
3:00 p.m. Break
3:15 More on preparing for exams
Room
03
4:00 Getting
and receiving feedback
Room
03
4:30 Adjourn
Tuesday,
August 17
ASSIGNMENTS: Come to class
having completed the following:
Complete and study outlines for exam in torts and
unemployment law
SCHEDULE
9:00 Unemployment
Law exam (Section 1)
Room
03
Torts
exam (Section 2)
Room
2-101
10:30 Break
11:00 Unemployment Law exam (Section 2)
Room
03
Torts
exam (Section 1)
Room
2-101
12:30 Break
12:45 Lunch with alumni and faculty
2:15 Exam
review sessions and program wrap-up discussion (all)
Room
03
4:30 Adjourn