LAW 313 - Tutorials.

Students may pursue specialized studies in areas of the law which are of particular interest to them in the form of tutorials. Faculty members may conduct tutorials for small groups of students on issues not otherwise taught in the curriculum. One to two hours of ungraded credit will be granted per tutorial, depending on size and scope. No more than two tutorials will be given credit toward graduation.

Tutorial - Comm Studio (Spring 2017)

For students interested in refining their communications skills, please consider this one-credit tutorial taught by Professor Stephen Lind from the Commerce School. The tutorial will allow a student to bring a law-related project of his or her choice to the tutorial for intensive work with the professor and other students. A law student might, for example, want to create a video portfolio highlighting oral advocacy skills or simply perfect their oral argument skills using the student’s work product from this year’s Davis competition. The tutorial allows the student to define the communication goals in consultation with the professor and to work intensively and collaboratively to achieve those goals. The description of the tutorial is as follows:

The Comm Studio is a 1-credit course designed to give students the opportunity to make improvements on their individualized communication goals through small group studio session workshopping of students’ communication products. Students with in-development communication projects from co-curricular, extra-curricular, or previous coursework (such as major stakeholder presentations, written proposals, or video projects) are encouraged to consider enrolling. Those without incoming projects may be provided with options for a product to develop to refinement. Students must discuss their goals with the professor prior to receiving Instructor Consent for enrollment.

A refined, professional, ready-to-publish version of the communication product will be the typical expected goal. Course sessions will include repeated studio presentation of rigorous, iterative communication works during which peers will provide detailed feedback. Presenters will learn to navigate feedback complexity in order to integrate significant improvements into subsequent drafts. Students are expected to leave the Studio with distinct communication skill improvements and/or a portfolio-worthy communication product. The course will meet once a week for 8 weeks in the semester.

Meetings: Studio to meet once a week for 8 weeks (weeks 1-8 of the semester; 85 minute block) January 9, 2017 - March 7, 2017

Subject to availability, students may select from the following meeting times:

Section 1: Tuesday, 1:25 - 2:50

Section 2: Wednesday, 2:30 - 3:55

Section 3: Thursday, 11:50 - 1:15

One hour. Permission of the instructor.