Law School to Offer Course Credit Option For Legal Field Work

The faculty of the Law School last Tuesday ?? approved the grating of academic credit to selected second and third-year Law students involved in ?? work.

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clinical work. Participation rates were 22, 85, and 72 per cent for first, second and third-year students, respectively. First-year students averaged four hours a week on such work; second-year students, eight hours; and third-year students, 12 hours.

Though it may be relatively early to try to assess student response to the credit option, the faculty expects that substantial numbers of students will want to take it.

Robert LeClair, a third-year student and a member of the Committee, said yesterday that a lot of students had been asking for such a program. "I wish I could have taken it, but it'll be too late for me-I'll be out by then," he commented.