Academic Excellence

The Academic Excellence Program, a program for first-year students, provides teaching and supervised skills practice to promote success in the study of law.

Fall Term: Weekly sessions include exercises that reinforce skills learned in first-year classes. These include preparing for class, analyzing cases, interpreting statutory law and reviewing for examinations.

Spring Term: The program concentrates on legal analysis exercises, using problems similar to those students will encounter on examinations.

Other programs that focus on developing academic skills include:

The Bar Assistance Program
The Charles Hamilton Houston Enrichment Program
A writing clinic staffed by a trained writing professional who helps students improve their written works
Small-group sessions and individual tutorials tailored to specific student interests

Both the Academic Excellence Program and the other programs are designed to supplement the standard curriculum, especially in the critical first year of law study. All students are invited to participate. For first-year students, the programs are coordinated with required courses.