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PARALEGAL STUDIES
Curriculum | Course Descriptions

Scott Silvis, JD, Program Director
PH 770-467-6042
e-mail: ssilvis@griffintech.edu
The Paralegal Studies associate degree program is a two year (full-time) sequence of courses designed to prepare students for careers as paralegals. The general studies component of the curriculum is added to develop written, oral, and analytical skills and to provide a breadth to the curriculum in the areas of humanities, behavioral sciences, and mathematics. Program graduates are provided training in the areas of legal ethics, the court system, interviewing skills, real estate practice and procedure, tort, and contract law. Particular emphasis is placed on developing the students written communications ability and on legal research skills. Special emphasis is giving throughout the program to impress upon students the legal proscription against the unauthorized practice of law by anyone who is not a licensed attorney. The high ethical duties attendant to the attorney-client relationship are also emphasized during the program of study and how paralegals are bound to maintain high ethical standards when assisting attorneys with the efficient and competent delivery of legal services to clients.

Curriculum

NAME NO.
ESSENTIAL GENERAL CORE COURSES
 
30
 
 
AREA I - HUMANITIES/FINE ARTS
 
ENG 191 Composition & Rhetoric
5
ENG 193 Composition & RhetoricI
5
   
OR
  
HUM 191 Introduction to Humanities
5
SPC 191 Fundamentals of Speech
5
     
5
1 1
AREA II - SOCIAL/BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES
1
ECO 191 Principles of Economics
5
   
OR
 
SOC 191 Introduction to Sociology
5
PSY 191 Introductory Psychology
5
     
(5)
1 1
AREA III -NATURAL SCIENCES/MATHMATICS
1
MAT 191 College Algebra
5
     
 
1 1
SPECIFIC TECHNICAL COURSES
75
SCT 100 Introduction to Microcomputers
3
PLS 101 Introduction to Law and Ethics
5
PLS 102 Legal Research
5
PLS 103 Legal Writing
6
PLS 104 Family Law
5
PLS 105 Real Estate Law
5
PLS 108 Criminal Law and Criminal Proceedure
5
PLS 109 Civil Litigation
5
PLS 110 Wills, Trusts, Probate, and Administration
5
PLS 111 Tort law
5
PLS 116 Contracts and Commercial Law
5
PLS 118 Paralegal O.B.I.
12
XXX xxx Elective(s)
10

CHOOSE TWO OF THE FOLLOWING COURSES

NAME
NO.
SPECIFIC TECHNICAL COURSES
10
PLS 112 Law Office Management
5
PLS 115 Business Organizations
5
PLS 117 Advanced Research and Writing
5