To receive the certificate, a student must apply for the program and complete five core courses: Family Law; Protections Children & the Law; Rights Children & the Law; an approved skills component; and an approved writing course. In addition, a student must complete two approved electives and must maintain a 2.5 average in the courses.
Upon completion of the program requirements, the student will receive an Honors Certificate in Children and Family Law, which will also be reflected on the student’s transcript. Students may apply for the program by contacting the Registrar’s office.
- Introductory Children & Families Courses (A student must take all of these courses)
- Family Law (3 credits)
- Protections: Children & the Law (3 credits)
- Rights: Children & the Law (3 credits)
- Approved Electives Courses (A student must complete two of these courses).
- Adoption Law (3 credits)
- Education Law (3 credits)
- Interviewing, Counseling and Problem Solving (2 credits)
- PRI: Collaborative Family Law (The training class for Collaborative Family Law Clinic can be used as a substitute for the PRI: Collaborative Family Law course)
- Seminars or Upper-Level Writing Paper (A student must complete one seminar or complete their upper-level writing paper in the area of children or family law.)
- Clinical Courses (A student must take one of these courses.)
- Juvenile Defense Clinic (6 credits)
- Collaborative Family Law Clinic (3 credits)
- Children & Family Externship (6 credits)
(Department of Children & Families, Regional Counsel, Public Defender Juvenile Division, or Guardian Ad Litem Offices) - Externship in Juvenile Court (2 credits)
- Relevant Courses (Students are not required to take these courses, and these courses do not satisfy any requirement of the certificate program. However, these courses would be helpful to anyone planning to practice children and family law)
- Wills, Trusts & Estates (3 credits)
- Disabilities Law (3 credits)
- Psychology and the Law (3 credits)
- Administrative Law (3 credits)
- Federal Income Tax (3 credits)
- Mediation (3 credits)
- Mediation Externship (2 credits)
- Motions and Depositions (3 credits)
- Opinion and Scientific Evidence (3 credits)