Legal Assistant, AAS (full-time)

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Suggested full-time sequence

ACCT 1070 - Accounting for Entrepreneurs 3.00 Credit Hours
OR ACCT 1080 - Principles of Accounting 1 4.00 Credit Hours
LEGA 2030 - Legal Research & Writing 1 3.00 Credit Hours (Critical Course minimum grade C is recommended for future success but is not required to receive credit)
LEGA 2210 - Electronic Evidence & Discovery 4.00 Credit Hours (Critical Course minimum grade C is recommended for future success but is not required to receive credit)
GEN ED - Group III (AAS, ABA) Variable Credit Hours
GEN ED - Group I.B (AAS, ABA) Variable Credit Hours (Recommended Course ENGL 1220 )

LEGA 2040 - Legal Research & Writing 2 3.00 Credit Hours
GEN ED - Group IV (AAS, ABA) Variable Credit Hours (Excluding WHES courses) (see note below for a list of preferred courses)

A minimum of 18 credit hours of General Education courses (Groups I-IV, excluding WHES courses) are needed for this program.

Under Group IV of the General Education courses required for the Associate of Applied Science (AAS) Degree, the following courses are preferred for the Legal Assistant program per the American Bar Association: ARTT 2650 , ARTT 2660 , MUSC 1030 , MUSC 2710 , MUSC 2720 , or other courses from Creative Writing, Foreign Languages, Humanities, Literature and Philosophy are acceptable.