Jurisprudence Student Objectives

This program strives to:

• Identify schools of jurisprudence;
• Compare and contrast the various schools of jurisprudence in terms of legal decision or legal result;
• Prepare high level research products in the fields of law and jurisprudence;
• Contrast human law with more transcendent versions and definitions of law;
• Summarize and critique the various jurisprudential theories;
• Compile sophisticated research findings involving law and jurisprudence;
• Justify the defense or advocacy of a particular legal issue or problem;
• Propose diverse ways in which a legal problem can be resolved;
• Integrate moral and ethical reasoning into legal applications;
• Summarize the major tenets of Anglo-American/Western jurisprudence.