Part-time Program
The part-time program has been developed to assist both regular and special applicants who meet the ordinary admission requirements. It is intended to accommodate those whose family commitments, financial necessity, or occupational involvement prevent full-time study. It would also apply to those who have not been in an academic institution for a significant number of years, making a part-time program at the outset necessary to re-acquire and develop educational skills.
Persons wishing to be admitted to the part-time program must submit a written statement setting out details of the reasons why they may be unable to pursue a full-time program in the study of law. Applicants must also be prepared to be interviewed prior to acceptance.
The program is not intended for those who want to test their interest in law or who would prefer a light course load. It requires a commitment to
at least half of the workload of full-time law students. Credits cannot be accumulated on a part-time basis.
Students taking a part-time program are required to attend courses at the ordinarily scheduled times. Such persons must be flexible enough to accommodate the study of law during the daytime when the bulk of the courses offered in the college are scheduled.
Students admitted to the first year part-time program are committed to two years in the part-time program before they can change their status to full-time.
In First Year Part I, students are required to complete a minimum of 12 credit units and a maximum of 18 credit units. In addition, students must complete legal writing assignments in conjunction with one of their courses and are responsible to participate in the Orientation Program of first year.
In First Year Part II, students must complete the remaining first-year courses and, depending on the number of courses taken in Part I, may be allowed to take one or two upper-year courses subject to the following requirements:
- that the upper-year courses which part-time first-year students are allowed to take in Part II be courses related to those already taken in Part I and be subject to the approval of the Associate Dean. For example, students who took Criminal Law in Part I should be allowed to take Criminal Procedure or Sentencing in Part II; students who took Tort Law in Part I should be allowed to take Torts II in Part II; students who took Contracts in Part I should be allowed to take Commercial Relationships in Part II; furthermore, all students in Part II should be allowed to take Civil Procedure, a course recommended by the Law Society of Saskatchewan and included as a required first-year course in many faculties of law.
- students in Part II may not take upper year seminars or complete the minor paper requirement.
Students, in their second and third years, are permitted to spread the normal two-year load (full-time) over two and one-half years, three years, or three and one-half years, as well as the existing four years part-time period. In the selection of their courses, part-time students are subject to the following requirements:
- all three years of study must be completed within a period of six years;
- no fewer than two half-course equivalents must be completed in any term, and no fewer than five half-course equivalents must be completed in any given year.
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Note: If a student needs fewer than two courses in a term, or fewer than five courses in a year to graduate, the student may take the number of courses necessary for graduation.
Should the circumstances which necessitated election of the part-time program change, students must convert to full-time status upon completion of first year or at the appropriate time in upper years.