Student Objectives

The key to success in the BS in Legal Studies will inevitably depend on not only your intellectual skill but your organizational ability. The study of law and its diverse applications requires many talents - none more compelling than those related to deductive reasoning and the synthesis of information. CAL U offers up the most challenging of programs and expects its students to reach high.

At end, the successful graduate will be able to:

• Understand those professions related to legal studies
  
• Become familiar with relevant professional associations
  
• Analyze career tracks and opportunities
  
• Interpret and analyze legal materials such as case law and statutory materials
  
• Explain the public policy impact of judicial ruling and legislative policy
  
• Frame legal issues for specific legal dilemmas
  
• Weigh and evaluate legal arguments, legal remedies in a particular dilemma
  
• Conduct legal research on diverse topical coverage in law
  
• Argue and advocate legal arguments
  
• Draft and author a legal scholarship in form of paper, brief, memoranda and thesis
  
• Creatively construct legal remedies to situations of first instance
  
• Correlate the interplay between ethical and moral principles and the rule of law
  
• Interpret, adjudge and apply the United States Constitution and its relevant Amendments
  
• Define and categorize legal and human rights in varied settings
  
• Incorporate legal method and reasoning into complex legal issues
  
• Compare and contrast legal systems in national and global contexts
  
• Assess legal questions and issues in particular settings whether it be the environment, correctional facilities, police stations, government and administrative agencies, business or other location.
  
• Evaluate and critique the law of crimes and the concept of criminal responsibility
  
• Distinguish and differentiate civil, equitable and criminal subsystems.
  
• Categorize legal actions, litigation tactics and strategies and identify specific legal practice applicable in fact situations.
  
• Appraise the interrelationship and effects between culture, social order and the rule of law.
  
• Describe community's power to arrest, incarcerate and punish in the correctional setting.
  
• Discover career tracks and opportunities related to law and it practice.
  
• Identify and predict how law and legislation influences the community.
  
• Problem solve in legal settings.