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2021-2022 Graduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
Course Descriptions
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Human Services/Mental Health |
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HSR 500 Multicultural Family Work (3 credits) Hours: 3 classroom + 0 lab/studio
Prerequisite(s): Junior Standing or higher.
Taught: Summer only
Best practices of in service delivery to families of young children at risk; importance of parent worker partnerships and shared decision making in assessment, communication/intervention, and evaluation; participation in collaborative supervised assessment of one family; family centered services plan.
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HSR 522 The Mindful Helping Professional (1-4 credits) Hours: 1-4 classroom + 0 lab/studio
Prerequisite(s): Junior standing or higher.
Taught: Fall and spring
This course for helping professionals introduces themes and practices in Mindfulness. Self-paced modules help students explore and incorporate mindfulness characteristics in oneself and others.
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HSR 523 The Mindful Leader (3 credits) 3 classroom + 0 lab/studio
Prerequisite(s): Junior or graduate standing
Taught: Fall and spring
This online course for current and future leaders introduces themes and practices in mindfulness. Self-paced modules help learners explore and incorporate mindfulness characteristics in oneself, others, and in leadership.
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HSR 526 Family Systems (3 credits) Hours: 3 classroom + 0 lab/studio
Prerequisite(s): Junior standing or Graduate standing.
Taught: Fall, spring, and summer
Integrates and promotes a systems perspective of families, sources of familial distress, and practical interventions for families in crisis. Reviews historical and contemporary theories related to family structure and functions, family dynamics, family relationships, and adaptations in family structure, roles and interaction patterns during times of transition.
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HSR 547 Children and Families in Health Care (3 credits) Hours: 3 classroom + 0 lab/studio
Prerequisite(s): Junior standing or higher.
Taught: Spring only
This course introduces the theory and practice of Child Life, demonstrating how child life specialists provide emotional care and meet the developmental needs of pediatric patients and their families.
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HSR 548 Therapeutic Play (3 credits) Hours: 3 classroom + 0 lab/studio
Prerequisite(s): Junior standing or department permission.
Taught: Fall
Students will examine play through a developmental lens in order to build skills that enrich play from infancy to young adulthood. Particular attention will be given to factors such as family culture, illness, loss and setting that inform a practitioner’s selection of play method.
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HSR 574 Grief and Loss Across the Lifespan (3 Credits) 3 classroom + 0 lab/studio hours
Prerequisite(s): sophomore standing or higher
Taught: Variable, check with department
This course will explore the nature of grief experiences that occur throughout the human lifespan including emotional, physiological, and behavioral impacts of loss. This course is designed to provide students with greater awareness, theoretical knowledge, and basic skills for conceptualizing the needs of individuals adapting to bereavement and non-bereavement losses.
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HSR 594 Selected Topics in Human Services (1-3 credits) 1-3 classroom + 0 lab/studio
Prerequisite(s): Junior standing or consent of instructor. Other pre-requisites may apply, vary with topic.
Taught: Variable, check w/ department
In-depth study of contemporary topics in human services. Topic listed in Schedule of Classes; May be repeated for credit when topics differ.
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Informatics |
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INF 594 Graduate Topics: Informatics (1-3 credits) Hours: 1-3 classroom + 0 lab/studio
Prerequisite(s): Graduate standing, other prerequisites vary with topics.
Taught: Variable, check with department
Special topics course in Informatics directed by an Informatics faculty member.
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Integrative Studies |
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IST 585 Introduction to Graduate Interdisciplinary Studies (3 credits) Hours: 3 classroom + 0 lab/studio
Prerequisite(s): Admission into the Master of Art in Integrative Studies program or permission of instructor.
Taught: Fall only
This course provides a comprehensive introduction to graduate studies in liberal arts, multi- and inter-disciplinary research and developing integrative insights. It prepares students for defining their research interests, planning their individualized curriculum and initiating active learning strategies. It also provides opportunity to develop one’s writing skills, to gain knowledge of professional writing styles, and practice integrative writing.
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IST 694 Interdisciplinary Seminar (1-3 credits) Hours: 3 classroom + 0 lab/studio
Taught: Variable, check with department
This seminar provides graduate students with opportunities for in-depth study of important interdisciplinary topics or issues. May be repeated when topics vary.
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IST 696 Internship: Integrative Studies (1-3 credits) 1-3 classroom + 0 lab/studio
Prerequisite(s): Consent of program director.
Taught: Variable, check w/ department
Students work under the supervision of the public, private, or non-profit professionals to apply their education to actual work situations.
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IST 699 Independent Study: Directed Readings (1-3 credits) Hours: 1-3 classroom + 0 lab/studio
Prerequisite(s): Consent of instructor.
Taught: Variable, check with department
Individually supervised readings and study of selected topic. May be repeated as topics vary.
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IST 793 Integrative Studies: Capstone (3 credits) Hours: 3 classroom + 0 lab/studio
Taught: Spring only
This is the culminating experience for the Master of Arts in Integrative Studies. It includes reviewing the disciplinary work you have completed throughout your multidisciplinary graduate program, analyzing that work, updating and organizing work performed and identify integrative insights. Students produce a portfolio of their multidisciplinary graduate work. Based on the integrative insights identified in the portfolio building process, each student will develop or revise a piece of their graduate-level writing with the goal of submitting it for publication.
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IST 797 Applied Research: Capstone Thesis (3-6 credits) Hours: 1-6 classroom + 0 lab/studio
Prerequisite(s): Consent of Instructor.
Taught: Variable, check with department
Student will work closely with a faculty advisor on a culminating thesis that integrates methods and approaches from two or more of the academic disciplines explored through the MAIS program’s coursework.
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IST 798 Continued Thesis/Project Enrollment (1 credit) Hours: 1 classroom + 0 lab/studio
Prerequisite(s): 6 hours of IST 793 or IST 797 and consent of instructor.
Taught: Variable, check with department
Continued enrollment for candidates needing more than two semesters to complete the capstone experience (IST 793 or IST 797 ). Graded pass/fail, this course may be repeated for two semesters until the project or thesis is complete. NOTE: all coursework that is applied to the degree must be no older than six years by the time the program is completed.
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Japanese |
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JPN 520 Readings in Japanese (3 credits) Hours: 3 classroom + 0 lab/studio
Prerequisite(s): JPN 380 or equivalent.
Taught: Variable, check with department
Various literary, linguistic, cultural, and pedagogical topics. May be repeated for credit when topic varies.
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Kinesiology |
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KIN 501 Lab Techniques in Exercise Science (1 credit) 0 classroom + 1 lab/studio
Prerequisite(s): Admission to the MSES program or permission of instructor.
Taught: Variable, check with department
This course must be taken during the student’s first semester of enrollment. The laboratory techniques in exercise science online class will provide students with detailed and up-to-date information regarding performance-based technology and laboratory techniques currently used in the field today.
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KIN 502 Research Methods and Analytics in Ex Sci (3 credits) 3 classroom + 0 lab/studio
Prerequisite(s): Admission to the MSES program or permission of instructor.
Taught: Variable, check with department
This online class will provide students with an in-depth learning experience regarding research design, data evaluation and proper analysis based on research methods, designs, and types of data. Students will learn how to set up and use statistical software for their analyses.
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KIN 503 Advanced Exercise Physiology (3 credits) 3 classroom + 0 lab/studio
Prerequisite(s): Admission to the MSES program or permission of instructor.
Taught: Variable, check with department
This course will cover the body’s acute and chronic responses to various forms of exercise from biochemical changes within the muscle to long-term adaptations that improve performance. Additionally, these changes will be looked at under extreme conditions such as high temperature and high altitude environments.
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KIN 594 Topics: Exercise Science (1-6 credits) 1-6 classroom + 0 lab/studio
Prerequisite(s): Permission of instructor
Taught: Variable, check with department
Various topics in kinesiology and exercise science.
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KIN 599 Independent Study: Exercise Science (1-6 Credits) 1-6
Prerequisite(s): Permission of instructor
Taught: Variable, check with department
Directed readings other areas of specific or individual academic interest. Written agreement between faculty and student must be submitted to department chair within first two weeks of semester; elements of agreement to include purpose, objective, instructional activities, time frame, and evaluation procedure.
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KIN 603 Strength and Conditioning Programming (3 credits) 3 classroom + 0 lab/studio
Prerequisite(s): Admission to MSES program.
Taught: Variable, check with department
This online class will provide students with an in-depth learning experience regarding current methods in strength and conditioning programming. Students will learn how to develop and implement programs for athlete, youth, adults and geriatric populations based on one’s health, fitness level and testing results.
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KIN 604 Cardiorespiratory Physiology and ECGs (3 credits) 3 classroom + 0 lab/studio
Prerequisite(s): Admission to the MSES program.
Taught: Variable, check with department
This course will cover the function of the cardiovascular/respiratory systems, comparing rest to exercise. Focus will include management of hemodynamics and respiratory function, looking at diseased and athletic populations for insight. Cardiovascular function will include cardiac muscle function, electrophysiology, electrocardiogram interpretation with comparisons of normal, and athletic and diseased populations.
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KIN 605 Injury Prevention and Rehabilitation (3 credits) 3 classroom + 0 lab/studio
Prerequisite(s): Admission to the MSES program.
Taught: Variable, check with department
This online class will provide students with an in-depth learning experience regarding common and even less common injuries and ailments in an athletic and general population. Students will learn how to develop and implement rehabilitation and injury prevention programs for athletes, youth, adults and geriatric populations.
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KIN 681 Exercise Energy Metabolism (3 credits) 3 classroom + 0 lab/studio
Prerequisite(s): Admission to the MSES program.
Taught: Variable, check with department
The exercise and energy metabolism online class will provide students with in-depth content regarding the physiology of metabolism, energy utilization and advanced nutritional strategies to optimize human performance.
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KIN 682 Advanced Clinical Physiology (3 credits) 3 classroom + 0 lab/studio
Prerequisite(s): Admission into MSES program.
Taught: Variable, check with department
The clinical exercise physiology course will teach students how to assess patients with chronic diseases, complete exercise testing while making special considerations based on disease diagnosis, and prescribe exercise to help manage disease and improve activities of daily living.
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KIN 683 Analytics in Sport Science (3 credits) 3 classroom + 0 lab/studio
Prerequisite(s): Admission to the MSES program.
Taught: Variable, check with department
This class will teach students to manage, interpret and apply information collected from sport and exercise related fields. Students will understand how technology is utilized in the field of exercise science and how big data sets should be analyzed to improve decision making regarding athlete/patient health.
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KIN 691 Comprehensive Exam in Exercise Science (0 credits) 0 classroom + 0 lab/studio
Prerequisite(s): Completion of all required major and elective coursework (31 credit hours)
Taught: Variable, check with department
This 0-credit course will be a combination of rigorous content from all relevant content within the MSES curriculum. The exam will include various aspects of a student’s course work in exercise physiology, clinical exercise, data analysis, research methods, and exercise programming.
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KIN 694 Advanced Topics in Exercise Science (1-6 Credits) 1-6 classroom + 0 lab/studio
Prerequisite(s): permission of instructor
Taught: Variable, check with department
Varied advanced topics in exercise science.
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KIN 696 Internship (6 credits) 6 classroom + 0 lab/studio
Prerequisite(s): Permission of instructor.
Taught: Variable, check with department
The Internship Option will require students to seek and obtain a qualified internship in the field of exercise science. Internships must be related to exercise or clinically-based.
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KIN 697 Thesis (6 credits) 6 classroom + 0 lab/studio
Prerequisite(s): Permission of instructor.
Taught: Variable, check with department
The Thesis Option will require students to design, complete IRB, implement, collect data and report findings for an approved topic related to exercise science.
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KIN 698 Continued Thesis (1 credit) 1 classroom + 0 lab/studio
Prerequisite(s): KIN 697 and consent of instructor.
Taught: Variable, check with department
This course is only for students needing additional time to complete the thesis project (KIN 697 ) in exercise science. This course is graded pass/fail and may be repeated for a maximum of two semesters or until the thesis is complete.
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Law |
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LAW 757 Seminar in Technology Law (3 credits) 3 classroom + 0 lab/studio
Taught: Variable, check w/ department
As the world evolves through technology, the law must evolve as well. This course requires students to focus upon a single emergent technology-such as artificial intelligence, autonomous vehicles, the Internet of Things, or some other technology of each student’s choosing-and explore existing and anticipated legal issues associated with the technology. Students will be expected to research and to write about these issues, discussing the existing laws that may apply to that technology and to propose prospective remedies for any legal problems that the technology may cause that current laws or regulations do not cover.
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LAW 800 Information Privacy Law (3 credits)
Prerequisite(s): Must have completed the 1st year.
Information comes to us in the form of patents, copyrights, trademarks, databases, photographs, and information stored in our GPS tracker, our Google search, our cell phones, and our health records. This course examines current U.S. practice regarding the right of an individual to control one’s personal information in transactional settings such as health care, financial services, e-commerce and social media. The course will explore the history of U.S. privacy, the current development of privacy regulation and identify the next steps necessary for expansion of U.S. policy in this area.
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LAW 801 Legal Boundaries in the Digital Age (3 credits)
Prerequisite(s): Must have completed the 1st year.
Taught: Fall, Winter, Summer
Technology extends the reach of individuals, organizations, and governments beyond borders, posing one of the greatest legal challenges in the Digital Age. A single action on the Internet can have consequences far beyond where the actor resides-stealing an identity, subverting an election, threatening a public utility-raising questions about what laws, and what governing bodies, will protect victims and punish those that harm them through technology. This course will examine the obstacles to enacting and enforcing laws to govern cyberspace and the real world when developing technologies create challenges to the lawful authority of governments to regulate technology.
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LAW 802 Basic Legal Skills II - Writing (2 credits)
Taught: Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer
A continuation of Basic Legal Skills I - Writing.
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LAW 803 Civil Procedure I (3 credits)
Civil Procedure focuses on the litigation process through which parties enforce legal rights by going to court. In civil procedure we study the rules and norms that govern noncriminal cases, in which private individuals and government may be parties.
Over the course of the Civil Procedure I and II sequence, students will study subject matter jurisdiction, personal jurisdiction, venue, the Erie doctrine, preclusion doctrines, the mechanics of pleadings, joinder, discovery, summary judgment, and trial and post-trial motions with an emphasis on the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure.
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LAW 804 Business Basics for Lawyers (2-3 credits)
Prerequisite(s): Students who have passed the Accounting and Finance Test are not permitted to take this course. This course is not recommended for students who have a substantial knowledge of business principles.
The purpose of the course is to provide students with an understanding of the fundamental business principles that underlie substantive law courses in the commercial and business curriculum. Topics to be covered include an introduction to fundamental business principles, including debt and interest, discounting and present value, annuities and insurance, valuation techniques for a going business, principles of taxation, the operation of securities markets and securities including options and derivatives. Other topics may include introductions to accounting and financial reporting, the operation of the real estate market, comparison of business entity characteristics and bankruptcy principles.
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LAW 805 Civil Procedure II (3 credits)
This course is a continuation of Civil Procedure I.
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LAW 809 Constitutional Law I (3 credits)
This course covers basic methods of constitutional analysis; constitutional distribution of governmental powers between the states and the federal government and among the three branches of the federal government; judicial function in constitutional cases; and jurisdiction of the federal courts.
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LAW 810 Advanced Legal Analysis Strategies (3 credits)
Prerequisite(s): Students graduating in May or August only.
This course builds on the analytical and writing skills taught across the law school curriculum to enhance a student’s ability to prepare for, take, and pass the bar exam. While the most intense preparation for the bar occurs during the weeks immediately prior to the examination, this course will prepare students for that period of study and practice. Therefore, the course is open only to students in their final semester of law school.
Students will be introduced to the format and components of the Kentucky and Ohio bar exams, to the magnitude of the task of bar study, and to skills necessary for bar passage. Selected substantive topics must be reviewed, mainly the six subjects tested on both the multiple choice and essay portions of the bar exam. Primarily students will learn study methods, answer practice essay and multiple choice questions, and receive feedback on written answers. Self-assessment techniques and group learning are emphasized and encouraged.
Because so much material must be covered, a fair amount of out-of-class preparation is necessary. Despite the pass/fail grading, the course is rigorous and requires students to read, think, discuss, write, and answer many questions.
This course is not designed to replace commercial bar preparation courses, which all students are strongly encouraged to take.
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LAW 811 Constitutional Law II (3 credits)
This course covers federal constitutional limitations on the power of the government to restrict individual liberty, including the application of the Bill of Rights to the states through the Fourteenth Amendment, civil procedural due process, substantive due process and rights of privacy.
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LAW 813 Contracts I (3 credits)
This course examines the law governing the formation of contracts under the common law and the Uniform Commercial Code. The course generally includes the following subjects, although coverage, sequence, and emphasis will vary by instructor: Assent; Indefiniteness; Consideration; Promissory Estoppel; the Statute of Frauds; Incapacity; Duress; Undue Influence; Misrepresentation and Fraud; Unconscionability; Public Policy; Illegality.
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LAW 815 Contracts II (3 credits)
This course examines the law governing the interpretation and performance of contracts under the common law and the Uniform Commercial Code. The course generally includes the following subjects although coverage, sequence, and emphasis will vary by instructor: Construction and Interpretation; UCC Implied Warranties; Express and Constructive Conditions; Breach; Acceptance, Rejection, and Revocation of Acceptance of Goods; Anticipatory Repudiation; Performance Excuses; Assignment and Delegation; Third-Party Beneficiaries; Legal and Equitable Remedies for Breach.
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LAW 819 Criminal Law (3 credits)
This course covers legal concepts of criminality; sources of criminal law; elements of criminal offenses; criminal responsibility and defenses to crimes; parties to crime; and incomplete criminal conduct.
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LAW 820 Healthcare Law (3 credits)
Health care looms as the primary social issue in this country. In a single generation, health care moved to a significant segment of America’s gross national product (over 20%) while traditional access to care has become limited by restrictions imposed by payer sources and laws. This course will be an overview of the health care industry and the laws that impact the industry as well as social policy decisions in place and yet to be made about who gets care and who pays for that care.
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LAW 821 Criminal Procedure (3 credits)
This course addresses the federal constitutional constraints on the federal and state governments with respect to the investigation of criminal activity. Topics covered may include: the applicability of the Bill of Rights to the States, the exclusionary rule, searches and seizures (including eavesdropping and wiretapping), interrogations and confessions (including the right against self-incrimination and the right to counsel during interrogations), pre-trial identification procedures, and entrapment.
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LAW 822 Deposition Strategies (1 credit)
This skills course teaches students how to take and defend depositions. The course combines lectures, demonstrations, and interactive simulations.
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LAW 823 Evidence (4 credits)
This course covers the Federal Rules of Evidence, including relevancy, competency of witnesses, direct examination, refreshing and reviving memory, opinion evidence and expert witnesses, cross-examination and impeachment, privileged communication and silences, judicial notice, authentication, and hearsay.
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LAW 824 Voir Dire Strategies (1 credit)
Voir Dire Strategies will teach the skills and way of thinking necessary to increase your chances of selecting a jury that will be receptive to your theory of the case. All too often, trial lawyers ask the wrong questions of prospective jurors, missing opportunities to explore in a meaningful way whether a prospective juror will be right for the case. Additionally, trial lawyers frequently rely on stereotypes in picking jurors they believe will be favorably predisposed to their case. But just as in other facets of life, reliance on stereotypes in picking jurors can be dangerous. This course will teach a theory-of-the-case based way of constructing questions of potential jurors and analyzing whether prospective jurors should be selected for the case. Perhaps more importantly, the course will focus on how to ‘de-select’ potential jurors who will be hostile to your theory of the case through cause and peremptory challenges.
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LAW 825 Tax: Federal Income Taxation (3 credits)
This course is an introduction to the basic themes in federal income taxation such as what constitutes income; what is deductible from income; and who must declare income. This course was previously titled Tax: Basic Income Tax Concepts.
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LAW 826 Legal Drafting - Litigation (3 credits)
Legal Drafting - Litigation is an advanced legal writing course designed for law students in their second, third, and fourth years for preparing documents used in litigation. The goals of this class are to develop writing and editing skills that litigators use in trial practice and managing cases. The course will strive to conceptualize students’ writing, and then to write clearly, persuasively, and precisely. Clarity in thought and brevity in communication – these are the hallmarks of effective, persuasive writing.
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LAW 827 Legal Analysis and Problem Solving (0-3 credits)
This course includes the study of legal method and legal systems designed to teach the role and function of courts, legislative bodies, and administrative agencies; techniques of legal argument and reasoning; and sources of law. This course is scheduled during the first two weeks of class for the part-time division and during the first week of class for the full-time division.
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LAW 829 Basic Legal Skills (Research) (0-3 credits)
This course introduces students to the basics of legal research. Students will focus on primary and secondary sources of legal information in both print and online formats. This course is required during the first semester of the first year of law school.
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LAW 830 Basic Legal Skills I - Writing (2 credits)
Taught: Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer
Skills instruction and exercises in legal research and analysis of common and statutory law, legal writing and reasoning, written and oral advocacy.
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LAW 831 Criminal Litigation (3 credits)
This intensive course is offered to students who are interested in taking an in-depth look into the criminal justice process from arrest to post-trial relief. Students taking this class will have an opportunity to develop their oral and written advocacy skills. The course will cover various aspects of the post-investigative stage of the criminal process, commonly referred to as “bail to jail.” It examines what occurs after the criminal investigation has been completed, and an arrest has occurred. The individual is no longer a mere suspect, but now a defendant. Presently, the plan for the class is to cover such diverse areas as pre-trial release (bail), pretrial motions, preliminary hearings, trial objections, sentencing, and post-conviction challenges. Students will be expected to both learn important concepts in criminal law, procedure and evidence and apply that law by arguing, and-on occasion, drafting-motions based upon fact patterns which raise related issues. This class provides a unique opportunity, because it combines substantive law with the opportunity to advocate in a skills setting. Please note that this course may be used to satisfy the AWR drafting requirement.
*** Professor Mungo is an experienced and well-respected criminal defense attorney who practices in both Kentucky and Ohio. A 1998 Chase graduate, Professor Mungo has also been an Assistant Commonwealth Attorney as well as in private practice with the firm of Wood, Herron & Evans. He has taught other courses here, including legal writing, advance appellate advocacy and trial strategy.
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LAW 832 Legislation and Statutory Interpretation (3 credits)
This course will examine the legislative process, theories and doctrines of statutory interpretation, severability; Congressional “oversight” through both investigation and the appropriations process; Congressional response to statutory interpretation decisions of the U.S. Supreme Court; legislative veto; and retroactivity of statutes. All students taking the course will also receive training, from Chase Law Library faculty, in the use of library and online resources for researching the legislative history of statutes. Students who elect to fulfill the AWR-RESEARCH credit in this course will be able to do so by writing a two-draft narrative legislative history of a recently enacted federal or state statute (20 page minimum). All students will take a take-home final exam.
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LAW 833 Professional Responsibility (3 credits)
This course covers the law of lawyering, including legal ethics under the American Bar Association’s Code of Professional Responsibility and Rules of Professional Conduct; legal malpractice; lawyers’ First Amendment rights; judicial ethics; and professionalism in the practice of law.
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LAW 834 E-Discovery (3 credits)
This course will examine the electronic discovery (e-discovery) process primarily following the 9 stages of the Electronic Discovery Reference Model (EDRM). It will include analysis of e-discovery case law including past and current cases; the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure related to e-discovery; different types of e-discovery including litigation, government investigations, and internal audits; and ethical issues related to e-discovery. Additionally, it will have a practical aspect that will teach e-discovery skills related to e-discovery technology including review platforms. This course will be taught entirely online. Students will be able to complete all course requirements asynchronously within the timelines set for each course element. It is not a learn-at-your-own-pace course, but there will be no scheduled class meetings that would require attendance on a specific date or at a specific time. The exam will be available on-line, and students will be able to take it during the exam period.
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LAW 835 Property I (3 credits)
This course covers issues related to real and personal property; estates; landlord/tenant relationships; adverse possession; land transfers and mortgages; recording; covenants, easements and licenses; rights and liabilities accruing from possession and ownership of land; and fixtures.
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LAW 836 Effective Legal Analysis III (0 credits)
The purpose of these sessions is to build on critical skills necessary to success in law school, on the bar exam, and in the practice of law. Various hands-on activities will help you master skills such as careful reading, issue spotting, structuring an answer, managing time, balancing the analysis of a close question, and taking both multiple choice and essay tests. Although everyone is welcome to attend, students on academic warning must register as well. You must register for and attend the section designated to your division in school. If you are required to participate in ELA, you must arrange your course and work schedules around the scheduled section for your division.
For ELA II, You must register for the same ELA II section as your Con Law section because that course is used as the substantive basis for the skills instruction.
Effective Legal Analysis I is limited to first-year students, who must sign up in the division-day or evening-in which they take the majority of their doctrinal classes. Effective Legal Analysis III is limited to part-time students in their fourth semester, but one section accommodates students in the day and evening divisions.
This course is pass/fail.
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LAW 837 Property II (3 credits)
This course is a continuation of Property I.
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LAW 838 UCC: Sales and Secured Transactions (3 credits)
This course involves the study of Articles 2, 2A & 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code, including sale and lease of goods; warranties; risk of loss; remedies of buyer and seller; bona fide purchaser; and creation and perfection of security interests in personal property and fixtures.
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LAW 839 State Constitutional Law (3 credits)
This course examines various aspects of Kentucky Constitutional law. Students are typically required to write a paper for this course, which is taught by former Kentucky Supreme Court Justice Donald Wintersheimer.
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LAW 840 UCC: Payment Systems (3 credits)
This course involves the study of Articles 3, 4, & 4A of the Uniform Commercial Code and other statutes, including negotiability and negotiation of various negotiable instruments; rights and liabilities of all parties; and rights and liabilities in other payment systems such as electronic funds transfers, automated teller machines, credit cards, and letters of credit.
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LAW 841 Torts I (3 credits)
This course covers civil wrongs and their remedies; intentional torts and defenses; unintentional harms and defenses; products liability; strict liability; and other specific harms.
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LAW 842 Startups and Venture Capital Law (3 credits)
This is an advanced, applied business law course intended principally for 3L students or those with a significant interest in business law. Enrollment in the course is limited to 12 students and requires approval by the professor - in this regard, please send copy of résumé and law school transcript by email to Eric Alden. Ideally, students enrolling in the course would already have taken, or be contemporaneously enrolled during the same semester as Startups and Venture Capital Law, in: (i) Corporations; (ii) Agency, Partnerships and LLCs; (iii) Securities Regulation; and (iv) Tax: Business Organizations and Business Planning. However, students with a strong interest in business law are encouraged to apply for enrollment even if they will not have taken or be enrolled in all of the foregoing. The only one of the foregoing courses which will be treated as a strict co- or pre-requisite is Corporations - all the others can be waived if the professor believes the student has sufficient background and interest to make the course worthwhile for the student.
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LAW 843 Torts II (3 credits)
This is a continuation of Torts I.
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LAW 844 Environmental Aspects of Business Transactions (3 credits)
Every transaction that includes the transfer of land or buildings may involve restrictions on uses or the assumption of liabilities imposed by our environmental laws. This course will cover the environmental laws implicated by these transactions, particularly the regulation of hazardous substances. It will also introduce students to the liability, diligence, and drafting issues that arise in these transactions.
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LAW 845 Wills and Trusts (3 credits)
This course covers the transmission of property while alive and at death, including intestate succession; requirements for wills and trusts; will substitutes; power of appointment; duties and liabilities of fiduciaries; and estate and trust administration.
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LAW 846 Applied Ethics (2 credits)
APPLIED ETHICS was created and developed from experiences on the Kentucky Bar Association ethics hotline, on the Board of Governors and as an officer (President in 2013-14.) It became obvious that attorneys involved in the discipline process often made the simplest of mistakes over and over - clients were being harmed, making complaints, and were filing lawsuits against their attorney not necessarily because the attorney lied, stole or cheated but because the attorney did not communicate, keep confidences, stay diligent or handle the money correctly. The goal of this class is to get to law students early, before they get caught up in the bar exam and job hunting ritual, so they have a firm grasp of reality, of common problems that are so easily avoided, and of the discipline process.
Students will be introduced to the types of situations practicing attorneys confront that require a working knowledge of professional conduct principles for successful resolution. Students will be alerted to the mistakes that most frequently result in formal discipline and to the areas of practice that create malpractice exposure. Students will receive instruction on the need to participate in self-regulation, how to participate and how to protect themselves. Students will be instructed on the unique position attorneys hold in the system of justice in the United States.
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LAW 847 Digital Forensics and the Law (3 credits)
Taught: Fall and Spring
This course will focus on both hands-on digital forensic experience using open-source digital forensics tools and case law that covers electronic discovery, privacy, and cybersecurity considerations. In this course, the student not only gains experience using digital forensics tools but also will learn about legal precedents that discusses the “why” behind the “how”. The course also includes lessons about data acquisition and analysis of external storage devices such as USB devices, workplace considerations (the cloud, bring-your-own-device BYOD), and a study of various models that any forensic practitioner should be familiar with when presenting findings to in a court of law. Finally, students will be also asked to engage in critical thinking assignments that tackle forensic implications of current and emerging technologies.
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LAW 849 Foundations Review III (3 credits)
This course builds on the analytical and writing skills taught across the law school curriculum to enhance a student’s ability to prepare for, take, and pass the bar exam. While the most intense preparation for the bar occurs during the weeks immediately prior to the examination, this course will prepare students for that period of study and practice. Therefore, the course is open only to students in their final semester of law school. Foundations I and II are NOT prerequisites.
Students will be introduced to the format and components of the Kentucky, Ohio, and Uniform bar exams, to the magnitude of the task of bar study, and to skills necessary for bar passage. Selected substantive topics must be reviewed, mainly the seven subjects tested on both the multiple choice and essay portions of the bar exam. Primarily students will learn study methods, answer practice essay and multiple choice questions, and receive feedback on written answers. Self-assessment techniques and group learning are emphasized and encouraged.
Because so much material must be covered, a great deal of out-of-class preparation is necessary. Despite the pass/fail grading, the course is rigorous and requires students to read, think, discuss, write, and answer many questions over the course of the semester.
This course is not designed to replace commercial bar preparation courses, which all students are strongly encouraged to take.
This course is pass/fail.
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LAW 857 Advanced Criminal Law: Habeas (3 credits)
This course will provide students with an understanding of federal habeas corpus practice, which is often an inmate’s last opportunity to overturn a conviction or avoid execution. Habeas corpus is often considered the most complex aspect of criminal law. Federal courts deal with habeas petitions regularly. Yet, law students do not routinely learn federal habeas law. This Court will bridge that gap and therefore make students more attractive candidates for prestigious federal judicial clerkships. Students will learn the requirements to proceed in federal habeas and the procedures to follow in filing and litigating a habeas petition from filing to conclusion. They will also learn the doctrines of exhaustion and procedural default, the limitations on granting habeas relief, what to do when habeas relief is denied, and stay of execution litigation in death penalty cases. In a nutshell, students will learn every aspect of federal habeas corpus with the goal that by the conclusion of the course, students will have a basic knowledge of how to litigate a federal habeas petition from filing to final appellate review and have enough federal habeas knowledge to assist federal district court judges decide federal habeas petitions. This knowledge will be gained not just through statutory and case law, but also through practical experience. Students will review habeas pleadings filed in actual death penalty cases and then have the opportunity to draft various pleadings that would be filed in federal habeas cases, either in actual death penalty cases or in a hypothetical case - depending on the status of the professor’s capital habeas cases. By doing so, students will have the option to use this class to satisfy the AWR - Drafting requirement.
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LAW 859 National Security Law (3 credits)
This course requires significant research and group work. Students work in teams to solve current legal issues involving national security. There is neither a casebook nor an exam, but a paper is due at the end of the course.
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LAW 861 Supreme Court Seminar (3 credits)
Prerequisite(s): Approval from Associate Dean Rosenthal is required. Students must provide résumés to the Associate Dean.
This course will focus on between 9 and 12 cases currently before the United States Supreme Court. The course will also consider several other high-profile cases percolating in the lower federal courts with high probablity of reaching the Supreme Court.
This is how the seminar will work: Each student will select one current Supreme Court Justice to impersonate for the entire semester. Before each class, students will review the briefs in the case assigned for that week and any writings by their respective Justice on the subject area. During class, students will discuss the case as the Justices would in their private conference. The students will then vote on the case. During the course of the seminar, each student will produce at least one majority opinion, one concurrence, and one dissent. The course will be for three credits and will focus on effective advocacy and opinion writing. The hope for the course is that the students will learn several interesting areas of the law, gain insight into the way judges think so as to become better advocates, and learn effective brief-writing techniques. Students will also have the opportunity to hear from a seasoned Supreme Court advocate during one of the class meetings.
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LAW 865 Effective Legal Analysis (0 credits)
The purpose of these sessions is to build on critical skills necessary to success in law school, on the bar exam, and in the practice of law. Various hands-on activities will help you master skills such as careful reading, issue spotting, structuring an answer, managing time, balancing the analysis of a close question, and taking both multiple choice and essay tests. Although everyone is welcome to attend, students on academic warning must register as well. You must register for and attend the section designated to your division in school. If you are required to participate in ELA, you must arrange your course and work schedules around the scheduled section for your division.
For ELA II, You must register for the same ELA II section as your Con Law section because that course is used as the substantive basis for the skills instruction.
Effective Legal Analysis I is limited to first-year students, who must sign up in the division-day or evening-in which they take the majority of their doctrinal classes. Effective Legal Analysis III is limited to part-time students in their fourth semester, but one section accommodates students in the day and evening divisions.
Pass/Fail course.
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LAW 869 Semester in Practice (4-12 credits)
The Semester in Practice Program is a field-based external clinic in which students apprentice (without pay) with lawyers in all areas of practice or in judicial chambers. The SIP provides an opportunity - through observation, participation, practice, and reflection - to improve students’ legal knowledge and skills and to inform and expand their vision of what the practice and profession of law can be. The overarching goal of the SIP Program is to provide opportunities for students to develop lawyering skills, learn substantive law, and engage in critical reflection about the legal profession, their legal career, and their priorities and values as lawyers and individuals through supervised field experiences and the contemporaneous seminar.
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LAW 870 Applied Complex Litigation (3 credits)
The purpose of this course is to provide a real-life experience in the preparation and defense of a commercial claim. This course will discuss the strategy of pursuing and defending a commercial claim. The facts of the claim are derived from actual commercial cases involving major corporations and individuals with millions of dollars at stake. The course will be led by Attorney Al Weisbrod, who will act as a mentor. Mr. Weisbrod was involved as trial counsel in each of the cases from which the facts have been derived for this course. If the students and the mentor work together as planned, at the end of this course, the students’ knowledge of Torts, Contracts, Federal and Civil Procedure, and Evidence will have been enhanced. Each student will have created forms, memorandums, and arguments that can be used in actual trial practice.
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LAW 871 Witness Preparation (1 credit)
Through role play and other means, this course is designed to teach methods and techniques that trial counsel use to prepare themselves and their witnesses for testimony that is truthful, engaging, trustworthy, and persuasive. Students will learn how to showcase witness testimony, reduce risks of unexpected or damaging testimony, gain witness confidence, explain the witness’ role, uncover hidden information, lay foundations for admitting exhibits, and deal with cross‐examination, etc. Each exercise will be followed by critique and class discussion.
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LAW 874 Field Placement Seminar (2-3 credits)
Chase’s clinical externship program offers students practical, hands-on experience in handling actual cases and learning aspects of the law in supervised judicial, civil, and criminal law settings. A student must expect to work 50 hours for every credit-hour earned. First-time placements of 3 credits or less qualify for the field placement clinic. Second or subsequent externships of 3 credits or less qualify for the advanced field placement clinic. All externships of 4 or more credits will be enrolled in the semester in practice course. These externships have a mandatory classroom component, even though these are listed under “non-classroom courses.” The class sessions will not meet every week, and some sessions will be conducted on-line. See Professor Kinsley for details.
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LAW 875 Climate Change and the Law (3 credits)
This course will integrate the emerging science and law of climate change. It will review approaches to addressing this issue considered or implemented at the global, national, state, and local levels. These include different policy instruments, such as carbon taxes and emissions trading, as well as specific regulations and other efforts that address emissions, consumption, and land use. The course will also review corporate and other non-governmental actions taken concerning climate change.
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LAW 876 Mergers & Acquisitions (3 credits)
Mergers and Acquisitions is an advanced course in business law intended for students interested in working as corporate and securities attorneys, as well as for students interested in commercial litigation, including specifically litigation arising out of broken deals (a not uncommon fact pattern). The course will involve both doctrinal law as well as the text of actual acquisition agreements used in practice. For students who will not have taken Securities Regulation and Business Tax either previously or concurrently, reference to the brief Nutshell (or comparable) commercial outline is recommended in order to achieve basic familiarity with those subject areas. The course will address multiple different areas of substantive law which bear upon the acquisition process.
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LAW 877 Business Organizations (4 credits)
This course provides an introduction to the law of business organizations, with primary focus on corporations, partnerships and LLCs. The course generally includes the following subjects, though coverage, sequence and emphasis will vary by instructor: (i) the history and evolution of different forms of business organizations; (ii) the mechanics of forming the different types of business organizations under state law, including attention to the specific operative documents used for this purpose; (iii) securities issuances and typical capitalization structures, along with a brief introduction to securities regulatory matters in connection therewith; (iv) choice of entity type and jurisdiction; (v) corporate governance, including the roles of directors, officers and shareholders; (vi) shareholder voting and other rights; (vii) entity governance in the partnership and LLC context; (viii) fiduciary duties and agency principles in the business organization context; (ix) dividend, distributions and other paths to liquidity for investors; (x) shareholder derivative suits and other litigation matters involving the business organization; and (xi) mergers and acquisitions. No prior background in business law or economics is assumed. This course serves as the principal gateway to further study and practice in the business law field of corporate and securities law, and is relevant both to those who would form and represent business entities as well as those who contemplate engaging in litigation involving business entities.
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LAW 878 Representing Small Businesses (1 credit)
Prerequisite(s): Completion of 30 credit hours.
This course is offered in fall only, for students interested in participating in the Clinic in fall or spring. It can also be taken as a stand-alone, one-credit course. The course involves simulation exercises, several outside speakers and covers a variety of topics, including both substantive law issues and practice management skills, such as mock client interviews and writing emails to clients, all typical for representing small businesses. Limited to 20 students; priority given to SBNLC students and those planning to register for SBNLC in spring.
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LAW 882 Energy & Environmental Law: Renewables (3 credits)
This course explores the expanding field of renewable and alternative energy resources. It reviews federal, state, and local laws and policies that promote (and impede) such resources, and it considers emerging distributed generation models. Turning to technology-specific evaluations, it surveys the range of emerging technologies and looks in depth into legal and policy issues impacting each.
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LAW 884 Emerging Technologies & the Law II (3 credits)
Taught: Fall, Spring, Summer
This course continues to explore the emerging technologies introduced in Emerging Technologies and the Law I, including artificial intelligence, autonomous vehicles, biometrics, blockchain, cryptocurrency, drones, the Internet of Things (IoT), machine learning, quantum computing, robotics, 3D printing, and virtual and augmented reality- and their impact upon contract, criminal, property, tort and other core areas of the law.
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LAW 885 Digital Commerce and the Law (3 credits) 3 classroom + 0 lab/studio
Taught: Fall and Spring
As commerce shifts to the Internet and mobile technologies, the law has been forced to adapt to the realities of the e-commerce marketplace. Consumers and businesses buy and sell goods or services through virtual storefronts using digital contracts, paying with digital currency, and, in some cases, resolving disputes online. Meanwhile, blockchain technology has offered new ways to document and to pay for e-commerce transactions through smart contracts and cryptocurrencies, like bitcoin. This course will address e-commerce common and regulatory law, with a special emphasis upon blockchain technology.
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LAW 888 Legal Studies (1 credit)
Legal Studies is a semester-long required course for all evening division students in their first year of law study. The course provides fundamental information about the law, the American legal system, legal terminology, problem solving, the role of policy, and legal reasoning, both objective and persuasive. In addition, the course focuses attention on the skills needed for success in law school and beyond: note-taking, critical reading, case briefing, statutory interpretation, rule synthesis, outlining, exam taking, and time management, including maintaining a healthy work-life-school balance. Although some lecture is necessary, active and team-based learning will be emphasized, and the ultimate goal is to make each student an engaged and independent learner.
**Evening students only.
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LAW 889 Client Centered Practice (2 credits)
Client Centered Practice is a two-week, real-time simulation of law practice in which corporate, civil, criminal, family-based, and ethics doctrine and procedure are integrated with research, writing, and oral advocacy skills to improve student preparedness for the real-world practice of law. In the course, students will be confronted with a hypothetical client whose needs are wide-ranging and overlapping. Students will proceed to represent the client throughout by preparing a series of memos, motions, and client-related documents, by planning for and executing fact development, and by implementing problem-solving and advocacy strategies. The course will be taught by a team of professors, emphasizing individual feedback and depth of substantive expertise. By the conclusion of the two week session, students will have acquired doctrinal knowledge and additional practice skills necessary to represent clients in the real world. The course is pass/fail.
Open to full-time students who have completed the first year curriculum and to part-time students who have completed the second year curriculum.
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LAW 890 Foundations Review II (1 credit)
This course reviews the law of criminal procedure, constitutional law, and evidence. Students may complete optional modules on civil procedure, contracts, criminal law, real property, and torts, but will not receive credit for them.
This course is an online course, but students may be required to meet for testing of each module.
This course is pass/fail.
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LAW 892 Legal App Development (3 credits)
Prerequisite(s): Permission of Lunsford Academy Director
Students will design and create a legal app in partnership with computer science students or a local software developer. Through this exercise, students will hone their abilities to educate themselves about a particular area of the law and articulate their legal knowledge to non-experts. In addition, students will gain experience working as a team and communicating with team members and technology professionals regarding the legal and technological issues relevant to creating an app.
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LAW 893 Intellectual Property and Other Intangible Rights: Drafting and Negotiating Strategies (3-4 credits)
Prerequisite(s): Permission of Lunsford Academy Director
This course takes a transactional approach to survey the law of intellectual property rights - trademarks, patents, copyrights and trade secrets. The students will also learn about protecting other intangible rights with noncompetition agreements, publicity rights licenses, releases, and endorsement agreements.
In addition to learning about the laws that protect these rights, students will understand the fundamental elements of intangible rights and intellectual property licenses and explore the best practices for creating and protecting these rights. The students will develop skills to identify strategies for effective drafting and negotiation of transactions that involve intellectual property and other intangible rights.
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LAW 895 The Business of Law: Creative Thinking for Lawyers and their Clients (2-3 credits)
Prerequisite(s): Permission of Lunsford Academy Director
This course prepares law students to address the competitive landscape of the legal services market. It provides them with the foundational skills required for operating a business, aiding clients in achieving business goals, and otherwise becoming a business-competent lawyer and business leader.
The course trains students in creative problem solving for businesses - either for their own law practice or for their clients’ businesses. Students will explore many of the methods, tools, and exercises that are the keys to unlocking business value. The skills the students are encouraged to develop in this course will help them design their law practices to better serve the needs of clients, regardless of whether their practice is solo, firm, or in-house.
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LAW 896 Law Practice Technology (2-3 credits)
Prerequisite(s): Permission of Lunsford Academy Director
This course trains students to become efficient users of standard office software typically used by lawyers in practice, such as word processing, spreadsheets, and pdf documents. In a competitive legal market, lawyers who are proficient in the use of office software will reduce costs for their employers and clients.
In addition, students will learn about software and other technologies designed for legal practitioners, providing students with a better practical foundation when they enter the modern legal market.
Finally, students will become familiar with technologies that compete with the services that lawyers provide, providing the students with a better understanding of how lawyers can distinguish their services from these products to provide value for their clients.
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LAW 897 Business Boot Camp (1 credit)
Business Boot Camp offers an overview of business concepts crucial to understanding client needs and analyzing their issues. Similar to a mini-MBA, this program is not “Accounting 101,” but introduces finance, accounting, and other business concepts such as markets and market intelligence, innovation, operations and logistics, risk analysis, pricing strategy, human resources. A combination of class presentations, many by faculty at the Haile/US Bank College of Business, in-class and out of class assignments. Includes at least 30 hours of class and offered on an intensive basis over a short time period. The culmination is an exercise where students work in teams which compete in presenting a business plan for a fictitious business to a panel of judges. Students with a strong business background should not apply.
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LAW 901 Accounting for Lawyers (2-3 credits)
This course will provide students with an understanding of basic accounting principles and their application to the practice of law. Topics covered will include balance sheets, income statements, statements of cash flow, and other related topics. The course is designed for students who have never taken accounting courses, or for students who have taken fewer than six hours of accounting classes at the undergraduate or graduate level.
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LAW 902 Administrative Law (3 credits)
This course covers procedural and constitutional law regulating units of government other than legislatures and courts, and legal principles of agency implementations of statutory programs. The course will also involve a selective examination of the powers of administrative agencies, and the legislative, executive, and judicial controls on and review of administrative action.
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LAW 904 Tax - Advanced Income Tax Concepts (3 credits)
Prerequisite(s): Tax - Basic Tax Concepts
This course is a study of advanced principles of federal income taxation not covered in Basic Income Tax Concepts, including tax accounting and other timing issues, choice of taxable year, time value of money, disallowances and restrictions of losses and deductions, charitable contributions, and the minimum tax.
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