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6 credits
Students will be introduced to the Canadian legal system, including foundational ideas about the nature of law, sources of law, legal processes, legal institutions, and actors. They will learn the principles and methods of legal reasoning, including case analysis and judicial decision-making, as well as the development and interpretation of legislation. Students will be introduced to effective lawyering and advocacy techniques and will be provided the opportunity, particularly in the second semester, to practice these skills, including through a moot. Throughout the academic year, students will learn foundational skills of legal research, legal analysis, and legal writing, and will be appraised of these skills through a variety of assessment methods. Note: Students will only receive credit for one of LAWF 3000, LAWF 3040 and LAWF 3060.
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6 credits
Indigenous***Please note: LAWF 3010 is a full year course. Students choosing this course in Fall must also register for the same section for it in Winter and vice-versa.*** Students are introduced to the basic elements of Canadian constitutional law. Topics include the nature of constitutions and constitutional processes; principles of constitutional interpretation; constitutional amendment; and Federal/Provincial distribution of legislative powers including the federal general power, natural resources and public property, provincial property and civil rights, trade and commerce, provincial taxation, transportation, communications, and criminal law. Students also examine the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms including principles of limitations, remedies, interpretation, application, fundamental freedoms, democratic and language rights, mobility rights, legal rights, equality rights, and Indigenous rights.
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6 credits
***Please note: LAWF 3030 is a full year course. Students choosing this course in Fall must also register for the same section for it in Winter and vice-versa.*** Students undertake a legal and policy analysis of the basic principles and fundamental concepts of the law of contracts as they relate to commercial and consumer transactions. Students explore the following: the formation of contracts including offer, acceptance and consideration; estoppel; privity; terms of contract, including exemption clauses; standard form contracts; bailment; mistake, misrepresentation and unconscionability; termination, including the doctrine of frustration; breach and remedies for breach; and dispute resolution processes. Emphasis is placed not only on knowledge of rules and principles, their historical derivation, rationale, efficacy and social validity, but also upon the creative use of contracts to both avoid and resolve disputes.
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3 credits
Students are introduced to the following: systems and institutions; sources of law; case analysis and problem-solving skills; court systems; precedent, stare decisis. Students examine the fundamentals of the legislative process: policy development, legislative drafting, public bill process, and statutory interpretation. The interaction of law and policy in the development of legislation, statutory interpretation and the work of administrative tribunals are discussed, along with the fundamentals of the administrative process: subordinate legislation, administrative institutions, forms of dispute resolution, delegation, discretion, process and judicial review. Students make substantive law connections with other first year courses. The functions of the lawyer within these processes are examined, including issues of professional responsibility. Emphasis is placed on skill development in oral advocacy and drafting both legislation and private law documents.
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6 credits
***Please note: LAWF 3050 is a full year course. Students choosing this course in Fall must also register for the same section for it in Winter and vice-versa.*** This course is an examination of the fundamental concepts of property law and the types of property interest recognized by Anglo-Canadian law. Topics include the historical evolution of property concepts; the basic concepts of possession, ownership and title; estates and other interests in land such as joint and concurrent ownership, easements, covenants, licenses, mortgages, future interests and perpetuities; the landlord and tenant relationship; the land titles system of registration of title to land; the social constraints upon property use and disposition; and property rights of Indigenous peoples.
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3 credits
***Please note: LAWF 3060 is a full year course. Students choosing this course in Fall must also register for the same section for it in Winter and vice-versa.*** Students are introduced to the following: legal analysis; legal writing and communication, including memoranda and facta; oral advocacy, including mooting; research databases and legal research skills. Emphasis is placed on skill development in oral advocacy and drafting both legislation and private law documents.
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6 credits
***Please note: LAWF 3070 is a full year course. Students choosing this course in Fall must also register for the same section for it in Winter and vice-versa.*** Students analyze and critique the law of torts, primarily the law of negligence, with personal injury as the main focus, although other torts are also introduced. Topics include the nature of tort law and its process; an anatomy of the law of negligence, including the nature and extent of liability, defenses, remedies, and the assessment of damages; intentional torts; economic torts; strict liability; bailment; the impact of private insurance on the tort system; alternative forms of compensation.
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6 credits
***Please note: LAWF 3080 is a full year course. Students choosing this course in Fall must also register for the same section for it in Winter and vice-versa.*** This course provides an anatomy of criminal conduct and its legal treatment, utilizing a limited range of criminal offences. Students examine the designation of human conduct as criminal and consider the social, cultural and political forces involved. Other topics include: the development of the criminal process in English common law, its translation to Canada and embodiment in the Criminal Code; the substantive elements of a criminal offence, including both physical and mental elements; the common law and code defences; procedural, tactical, ethical and evidential problems associated with criminal prosecution at both the pre-trial and trial stages; the sentencing process; and the position at law of the victim.
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3 credits
This issue-based course covers the legal, business and regulatory aspects of producing entertainment content in the modern age. In the first phase, students learn the contractual, intellectual property, defamation and privacy issues common to all of the entertainment industries. In the second phase, the course addresses the unique business and legal aspects of developing, financing and distributing entertainment products in each of the sub-industries involved.
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3 credits
Students learn about and analyze the access to justice crisis in Canada, and how technology and legal expert systems can help make law more accessible. Students develop skill in designing legal expert systems though hands-on experience using the Neota Logic system. Students learn and apply user-centered design principles in the apps they create. Students critically analyze the promise and risks of apps as an access to justice solution, including in connection with regulatory, privacy and accessibility issues. Note: Students will receive credit for only one of LAWF 3120 or LAWF 3780 ST: Designing Legal Expert Systems.
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3 credits
Students will be introduced to the practice of mergers and acquisitions including the process and documentation involved. Students will learn in class about the components of an agreement applicable to the purchase and sale of a privately held business and how those components function, not only in agreements for the purchase and sale of a business, but in business contracts generally. The course will build on concepts learned in contract law and will be a bridge from contract law in theory to contract law in practice. In addition to covering the purchase and sale of privately held businesses, this course will also cover, at a high level, take-over bids (i.e., transactions involving the acquisition of shares issued by public companies), plans of arrangement (i.e., court approved transactions involving the acquisition of shares or assets of public companies) and amalgamations (i.e., transactions involving the combination two corporations under a statutory process). Note: Students will receive credit for only one of LAWF 3130 or LAWF 3780 ST: Mergers & Acquisitions.
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3 credits
Students will explore the principles and practice of securities law in Canada. Students will learn how corporations sell their shares to investors by way of public offerings and private placements and about the rules applicable to such transactions. Students will also learn about the ongoing disclosure obligations of public companies, insider reporting and trading rules applicable to insiders of public companies, the process relating to communicating with shareholders of public companies and the process and law relating to takeovers of public companies. Note: Students will receive credit for only one of LAWF 3140 or LAWF 3780 ST: Securities Law.
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3 credits
Students will engage with legal issues likely to arise when working with an aging client. Students will learn about legal issues surrounding representing aging clients including aging clients in the litigation process, doctrines of equity including undue influence and unconscionability, family law issues arising later in life, substitute and supported decision-making, exploitation and elder abuse, and medical assistance in dying. Note: Students will receive credit for only one of LAWF 3150 or LAWF 3780 ST: Elder Law.
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3 credits
Students examine what access to justice (A2J) means in contemporary legal and policy contexts. Students are introduced to recent case law, legislation, and research in this pressing area, and critically examine definitions and theoretical underpinnings of access to justice. Students have an opportunity to discuss, assess, and synthesize policy responses to A2J problems and to address A2J issues as they manifest in a range of legal areas (including criminal, civil, and family law). Note: Students will receive credit for only one of LAWF 3160 or LAWF 3780 ST: Access to Justice.
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3 credits
Students explore the various business models that lawyers use in practice, and learn about the skills and systems that accompany those models. The course covers practice at small, medium, and large private firms as well as in public settings and innovative approaches. The course provides students with resources and tools to develop their own competencies as they move from law school to the legal profession. Note: Students will receive credit for only one of LAWF 3170 or LAWF 3780 ST: The Business of Practicing Law.
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3 credits
Students analyze and engage with conceptual questions and legal and philosophical debates about the place of nonhuman animals in the legal system. Students learn the key legal doctrines, statutory regimes, case law, and industry guidelines that regulate human interaction with animals in Canada, in other countries and internationally, and practice using these legal tools in advocacy and scholarship. Students research, analyze and discuss topics in various areas of law as they pertain to animals. Students develop skills in advocacy for legislative reform of animal protection law by using evidence and effective arguments in support of their proposals.
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3 credits
Students explore and examine the complex interaction between law and religion and how this has shaped and continues to shape the modern world. Students learn about some of the central theoretical questions and debates regarding the nature of the relationship between law and religion, in the historical and contemporary contexts of the Western legal tradition. Students will examine primary and secondary legal sources that address various issues regarding religion, religious communities, religious freedoms, secularism, state neutrality, and religious matters more broadly. Students will learn to work with materials from multiple disciplines to examine legal institutions and doctrines. Students will engage with a broad range of public and private law topics in the course, including constitutional law, the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, administrative law, multiculturalism, and professional ethics. Note: Students will receive credit for only one of LAWF 3190 or LAWF 3780 ST: Law and Religion.
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3 credits
Students prepare for the challenges and opportunities of practicing law successfully in a rapidly changing business, technological and regulatory environment. Weekly class meetings are structured as partners' meetings among partners in a (fictional) innovative law firm. Themes include: access to justice and the problem of affordable legal services; changes in and challenges to the “big law" paradigm; how technological developments are changing the practice of law; legal business regulation and alternative business structures; innovation in legal education; and diversity and equity in the profession.
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3 credits
Students gain practical skills in community lawyering such as client interviewing, strategic litigation, legal research, and ethical issues. They have the opportunity to examine and to be exposed to access to justice issues in context and specific areas of practice such as residential tenancy law, public legal education and law reform in British Columbia. This course shall be a pre-requisite for participation in the Legal Information Service and clinical legal education programs at TRU Faculty of Law.
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3 credits
Students work in a Community Legal Clinic administered by the TRU Faculty of Law. Students develop and practice lawyering skills including: client interviewing and counseling; file management; legal research; the preparation of legal documents, letters and memoranda; representing clients in administrative law hearings and provincial court trials and public education and law reform. Students work with real clients to develop these skills and are exposed to access to justice issues in context and specific areas of practice. Students handle legal matters for individual clients, depending on the complexity and duration of the case. Corequisite: LAWF 3410
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6 credits
In the Clinical Practice Course, students have the opportunity to work in the TRU Community Legal Clinic (“TRU CLC") under the supervision of TRU CLC's team of supervising lawyers. Students develop these skills in the process of assisting real clients with their legal issues. Students work on approximately 10 to 20 legal matters for individual clients, depending on the complexity and duration of each case. Corequisite: LAWF 3410
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9 credits
In the Clinical Practice Course, students have the opportunity to work in the TRU Community Legal Clinic (“TRU CLC") under the supervision of TRU CLC's team of supervising lawyers. During the course students develop and practice lawyering skills including: 1) client interviewing and counseling; 2) file management; 3) legal research; 4) the drafting of letters, memoranda and other legal documents such as wills or pleadings; 5) providing summary advice; and 6) advocating on behalf of clients. Students develop these skills in the process of assisting real clients with their legal issues. Students also engage in public education and law reform projects. Students work on approximately 24 to 32 legal matters for individual clients, depending on the complexity and duration of each case. Corequisite: LAWF 3410
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12 credits
In the Clinical Practice Course, students have the opportunity to work in the TRU Community Legal Clinic (“TRU CLC") under the supervision of TRU CLC's team of supervising lawyers. During the course students develop and practice lawyering skills including: 1) client interviewing and counseling; 2) file management; 3) legal research; 4) the drafting of letters, memoranda and other legal documents such as wills or pleadings; 5) providing summary advice; and 6) advocating on behalf of clients. Students develop these skills in the process of assisting real clients with their legal issues. Students also engage in public education and law reform projects. Students work on approximately 32 to 40 legal matters for individual clients, depending on the complexity and duration of each case. Corequisite: LAWF 3410
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15 credits
In the Clinical Practice Course, students have the opportunity to work in the TRU Community Legal Clinic (“TRU CLC") under the supervision of TRU CLC's team of supervising lawyers. During the course students develop and practice lawyering skills including: 1) client interviewing and counseling; 2) file management; 3) legal research; 4) the drafting of letters, memoranda and other legal documents such as wills or pleadings; 5) providing summary advice; and 6) advocating on behalf of clients. Students develop these skills in the process of assisting real clients with their legal issues. Students also engage in public education and law reform projects. Students work on approximately 40 to 45 legal matters for individual clients, depending on the complexity and duration of each case. Corequisite: LAWF 3410
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3 credits
Students learn the means by which both secured and unsecured creditors in British Columbia can collect the money owing to them. Students review and discuss the statutes involved, and cases that illustrate the broad range of fact situations in which the statutes operate and the legal principles and pitfalls involved. They examine in detail and present cases, areas, issues and principles of particular importance to an understanding of this area of the law.
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3 credits
Itellectual property, including the law of patents, copyrights, and trade-marks.
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3 credits
Students analyze the public law framework for international trade, with an emphasis on the World Trade Organization and North American Free Trade Agreement. Topics include national treatment; most-favoured nation treatment; anti-dumping and countervail actions; and dispute resolution.
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3 credits
Students comparatively examine the construction and development of the relationship expressed in law, history and politics between Indigenous Peoples and the nation-states of Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the United States of America (the “CANZUS" states). They examine the position of Europeans and Indigenous Peoples prior to First Contact and then at the point of that contact in the Americas and Australasia. Students explore the following topics in each CANZUS country: History and Demography, the Discovery Doctrine and Aboriginal Title, Land Holdings, the Separation of Powers Issues, Indigenous Jurisdiction, and Treaty or Agreement Making.
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3 credits
Students are introduced to the dialectical role of intellectual property in international law, with respect to health, development, technology, food security, human rights, indigenous knowledge, indigenous rights, access to education, and the environment. Students discuss the meaning and interpretation of international agreements, treaties and processes.
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3 credits
Students examine different types of digital constraints and freedoms, and their consequences to citizens, creators and democracy itself. They debate the various ways digital media content is restrained, shaped, and altered. Students identify the roles of law and regulation in this process. Core issues include: The legal status of user-generated content, remixing, fan-fiction, and machinima; violent and misogynistic content; privacy and surveillance in an on-line and digital device context; big data, digital manipulation and content addiction.
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3 credits
Students in this issues-based seminar course learn the legal and regulatory aspects of telecommunications, broadcasting and the Internet. It is intended as the post-millennial successor to telecommunications and media law courses that have been standard fare for decades. In addition, students learn the legal and regulatory aspects of statutorily determined quasi-monopoly business environments regulated by the CRTC, and subject to administrative law oversight. Students explore the digital age of emergent technologies that provide a significant degree of freedom and control to individual users.
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3 credits
Students are introduced to various types of insurance (e.g. fire, life, sickness and accident, motor vehicle, and liability). Topics include the nature and formation of the insurance contract; the role of insurance agents; insurable interest; misrepresentation and non-disclosure; and the rights of third parties against the insurer.
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3 credits
This course is a critical inquiry into the nature and functions of law and justice, including natural law, legal positivism, sociological jurisprudence, legal realism, and contemporary theorists.
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3 credits
Students explore principles of tax policy (efficiency, equity, and simplicity) and applications related to income, sales, and payroll taxes. Topics include the economic and distributive effects of taxes, auditing and legal compliance, and political economy.
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3 credits
Students analyse the variety of legal issues that arise in the field of privacy. Students explore the meaning of privacy. They examine how laws serve both to protect and to invade privacy. Students consider the conflict between privacy and other legal interests. They contemplate how (and whether) privacy can be protected in an age where – to the chagrin of many, but the delight of some – “everything ends up on the internet these days."
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3 credits
Students critically engage with the Charter of Rights and Freedoms and its associated jurisprudence. They focus on the following topics: The social, political and theoretical context in which disputes over the Charter of Rights and Freedoms are adjudicated; significant aspects of Charter adjudication, including judicial review, the interpretation of the Charter, and the remedial powers of courts; examination of the substantive jurisprudence on key rights protected by the Charter of Rights and Freedoms; and consideration of the practical difficulties involved in litigating Charter claims.
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3 credits
Students are introduced to comparative law as a method of legal enquiry, which is of significant import to the cosmopolitan lawyer who often requires knowledge of more than one legal system. Students consider the practical aims and theoretical underpinnings of the comparative legal method and examine the historical development of the process of comparing rules, principles, and institutions of different countries. Emphasis is placed on the contemporary use of the comparative method in both public and private law by legal actors such as lawyers, judges, and legislators. Students develop an international perspective by making substantive connections between the Canadian common law and a range of legal traditions, questioning whether national legal systems and institutions are converging or whether differing economic, political, and social contexts act to preserve legal diversity.
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3 credits
Students analyze, at an advanced level, contemporary debates in corporate governance particularly in light of recent North American and international developments. Particular attention is paid to how these developments are situated both within corporate governance theory and within the history of corporate governance laws and norms in Canada and internationally. Prerequisite: LAWF 3800
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3 credits
Examination of selected substantive areas of criminal law. Topics may include double jeopardy, police entrapment, conspiracy, corporate crime, theft, impaired driving and breathalyzer offences, plea negotiations, ethical issues, mistake of law as a defence, and juveniles and the criminal process.
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3 credits
Students examine how legal decisions are made and influenced. They draw upon extensive research in fields as diverse as product marketing and modern neuroscience, and structure those discoveries into a framework of classical rhetoric as developed in Ancient Greece and Rome. Students expand their perspective of the student-advocate, and obtain advanced knowledge upon which to base the development of practical skills throughout a career in practice.
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3 credits
Students investigate and analyse the tort implications of the events described in seven public reports. Students focus on the following issues in tort law: public authority negligence liability; the problem of third-party intervening actors; systemic negligence; misfeasance in public office; and material contribution causation in the third-party context.
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3 credits
This course is a discourse of the doctrines and rules governing legal disputes cutting across provincial or national boundaries. Topics include jurisdiction; distinctions between substantive and procedural rules; the recognition and enforcement of foreign judgements; domicile; proof of foreign law; and the choice of law rules relating to private law (torts, contracts, property, succession and family law).
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3 credits
This course is an examination of estate transactions. Topics include the purchase and sale of property; mortgaging and other ways to finance land transactions; commercial leasing arrangements; and the Land Titles Act as it relates to land development.
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3 credits
Topics in this course include receivership, consumer and commercial arrangements, and bankruptcy under the Bankruptcy Act and the Company Creditors Arrangements Act.
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3 credits
Students examine selected issues in constitutional law at the advanced level. Topics may include constitutional amendment, comparative approaches to rights, comparative federalism, the role of international law in constitutional litigation, the role of social movements, and strategic litigation in securing constitutional rights.
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3 credits
In this course, students consider in detail the modern law of secured transactions and the financing of personal property, with a focus on British Columbia's Personal Property Security Act.
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3 credits
Students assess unjust enrichment as an independent source of legal obligation. Topics include elements of the right of action and defences; restitution as the remedy, with particular emphasis on personal versus proprietary restitution; and disgorgement of wrongful gain, distinguished from restitution using breach of fiduciary obligation as the primary example.
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3 credits
Students evaluate the regulation, structure, and financing of the health care system. Topics include licensing and regulation of health care professionals (including medical malpractice claims as a form of regulation); regulation of biomedical research; approval processes for drugs, complementary therapies, and medical devices; resource allocation and access to health care; market considerations; privatization and deregulation of health care; and consent and confidentiality.
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3 credits
Through an examination of mental health law and policy in the civil, criminal and human rights contexts, this course will grapple with the unique barriers faced by people with mental health disabilities in the justice system. First, students will examine civil mental health laws and policies in Canada including involuntary psychiatric admission procedures; consent and capacity issues in relation to treatment; substitute-decision making; the use of restraints and forced treatment. The second portion of the course addresses the legal responses to mental health in the criminal justice system; findings of "not criminally responsible;" issues arising in policing and corrections; Mental Health Courts; the criminalization of persons with mental health disabilities; the provision of mental health services in the correctional system; administrative proceedings before forensic mental health review boards.
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3 credits
Students examine the provisions of the Income Tax Act applicable to corporations and their stakeholders. Topics include the classification of corporations for tax purposes; the taxation of corporate income; the taxation of corporate distributions; and the taxation of various types of corporate reorganizations. Prerequisites: LAWF 3800, LAWF 3830 Co-Requisites: LAWF 3830, LAWF 3800
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3 credits
Students explore the basic principles, policies, and procedures governing immigration and refugee law. Topics include refugee law and status; selection and admission of immigrants; inadmissible and 16 non-removable classes; exceptions and the minister's permits; and appeals and judicial review in the Federal Court including Charter issues.
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3 credits
Students examine the practical and theoretical implications arising from the application of economic reasoning to law. Topics include the economic method of legal analysis and the scope of its application, and the major critical responses in both traditional legal fields of economic influence (such as tort, contract and corporate law), and more novel areas (such as family and criminal law).
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3 credits
This course will provide an opportunity for students to consider in detail the protection, exploitation, and management of Crown-owned lands and renewable and non-renewable natural resources (other than oil and gas, and including forestry, range land, minerals, wildlife, fisheries, wilderness, recreational, and heritage). Students discuss the nature of public ownership, public and private values, economic approaches, and inter-jurisdictional management.
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3 credits
This course focuses on the social justice concerns of individuals, civil society actors, and/or Indigenous communities with distributions of resources, recognition of status, protection of rights and/or the protection of the environment. Justice issues related to natural resources, the environment and Indigenous communities are the dominant focus. Students will take a transnational approach to law by studying how laws rooted in domestic, international, private and public institutions regulate actions or events that transcend national frontiers. This is also an experiential learning course in that it offers students an opportunity to participate in social justice lawyering. This refers to legal research and writing that requires students to become familiar with the real-life problems of specific civil society actors in order to collect data, identify strategies and develop legal analysis of interest to these actors.
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3 credits
Students assess judicial remedies at common law and equity for tort and breach of contract, including personal injury and property damage. Themes include compensating loss, disgorging gain, and punishing civil wrong; prohibiting and compelling defendant behaviour; loss-based, gain- based, and punitive damages; and injunctions and specific performance.
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3 credits
Students explore the concept of the trust, its development in equity, and its relationship to other legal concepts. Topics include various types of trusts; constituting, administering and terminating the trust; trustee duties and powers; variation of trusts; breach of trust; and the doctrine of tracing.
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3 credits
This course is a survey of national and provincial human rights laws and practice as distinct from the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, and an introduction to the main international and transnational human rights instruments and standards.
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3 credits
Students examine the elements of public international law, including sources, the role of customary law, the law of treaties, recognition, state responsibility, and the roles and powers of international organizations.
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3 credits
The focus of this course is to consider migration and European law in the colonial context and its impact in pre-Confederation Canada (settled and conquered colonies); the role of trading companies, particularly the Hudson's Bay Company; the impact of the United States both before and after Confederation; Confederation and the development of Canadian legal culture and law. Jurisdictions may include British Columbia, Alberta, Ontario, Quebec, and Nova Scotia.
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3 credits
Students complete a supervised research project involving the in-depth examination of a legal problem or area of concern not normally covered in a substantive or procedural course and which provides the basis for an article, research paper, brief, memorial, or draft legislation. Admission to this course depends on the availability of supervising faculty. THIS COURSE MAY BE REPEATED FOR CREDIT Prerequisite: Consent of the Faculty
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2 credits
Students focus on a variety of subject areas, either doctrinal or theoretical. THIS COURSE MAY BE REPEATED FOR CREDIT
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3 credits
Students focus on a variety of subject areas, either doctrinal or theoretical. THIS COURSE MAY BE REPEATED FOR CREDIT
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4 credits
Students focus on a variety of subject areas, either doctrinal or theoretical. THIS COURSE MAY BE REPEATED FOR CREDIT.
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3 credits
This course is a detailed survey of the common forms of business organization, including the law of agency, partnerships, limited partnerships, and societies and corporations, with a focus on the corporation and the rights and responsibilities of shareholders and directors.
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3 credits
This course is a survey and critical examination of the core aspects of criminal process law. Students focus on legislation relating to jurisdiction and modes of trial including obligations of and options available to prosecution and accused. Other topics include arrest, search and seizure, investigative detention, and right to counsel and silence, all within the context of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
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3 credits
Sentencing is one of the most significant components of the criminal justice process. Despite its importance, sentencing is frequently an overlooked aspect of an accused person's walk through the criminal justice system. Sentencing Law aims to prepare students for this crucial area of practice. This course considers core principles of sentencing such as denunciation, deterrence, rehabilitation and retribution. The historical development of statute and common law impacting an offender's sentence are studied. Current trends in the common law are discussed, with particular attention to the sentencing of youth and indigenous offenders. Students will apply salient legal principles through oral and written coursework. Students should, on completion, be comfortable speaking to sentence on minor matters in provincial court and in providing meaningful assistance to experienced counsel on serious matters. Recommended Requisites: Advocacy, Evidence and Ethical Lawyering.
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3 credits
This course is an analysis of the legal principles affecting the rights and responsibilities of the members of the family. Topics include constitutional issues, marriage, marriage contracts, common law marriage, child neglect and abuse, custody and access, guardianship, adoption, separation, divorce, nullity, spousal and child maintenance, and matrimonial property. Emphasis is placed on the process of family law and the appropriate role for lawyers and judges.
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3 credits
Students study the basic language and concepts of taxation and learn to identify taxation issues. Topics include the unit of taxation; the meaning and taxation of income; taxation of benefits; the type and scope of deductions available for business income; and the taxation of capital gains including gains (and losses) on taxpayer assets.
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3 credits
Students critically examine legal theories, concepts, principles, and processes relevant to environmental protection. Topics include ecological and ethical dimensions; jurisdictional issues; common law rights and remedies; environmental assessment; public participation; contaminated sites; enforcement and compliance; economic approaches; endangered species and protected spaces; land use planning; and environmental dispute resolution.
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3 credits
Students examine the law governing non-unionized workplaces in Canada. Topics include constitutional jurisdiction; defining the employment relationship and employer/employee status; the employment contract; implied rights and obligations; termination; reasonable notice of dismissal; constructive dismissal; cause for summary dismissal; human rights; and employment standards legislation.
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3 credits
Students analyze the law governing unionized workplaces in Canada. Topics include freedom of association; the status of participants; union organization and certification; unfair labour practices; collective bargaining; the collective agreement and arbitration; industrial conflict; the duty of fair representation; and interaction between the labour law regime and the common-law of employment.
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3 credits
Students examine the preparation, execution, interpretation, and administration of wills; testamentary capacity; alteration, revocation and republication of wills; intestate succession; dependant's relief; and estate administration.
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3 credits
Students examine the sale and supply of goods, including the provincial Sale of Goods Act, consumer protection issues, and the Vienna International Sales Convention.
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3 credits
The course focuses on the substantive elements of the law-school specific TRC Call to Action #28, especially Indigenous Laws, Crown-Aboriginal relations, Treaties and Aboriginal Rights. To ground the learning on Indigenous Laws, land-based learning will be a central experiential learning element of the course. The course also elaborates on the history and legacy of residential school building and the colonial foundations of the legal system. The course will build on indigenous teachings and include skill-based training in inter-cultural competence, anti-racism, human rights and conflict resolution. In addition, it will integrate the international element of TRC Call to Action #28. It refers to the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) and the course will further introduce other international legal obligations that Canada is bound by in regard to Indigenous Peoples.
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3 credits
Students are introduced to the general structure of administrative decision-making in Canada: how public administrators obtain power and how that power is exercised both at the level of individual adjudication and at the level of the establishment of public policy. This course also provides an introduction to the checks which courts place on the exercise of administrative power. Students discuss the procedures that courts require of administrative agencies and public officials as well as the substantive grounds on which courts may review the decisions of administrative agencies and public officials.
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3 credits
This course is a detailed examination of issues which arise in the progress of a civil action from first meeting the client through to judgment in the Supreme Court of British Columbia. The British Columbia Rules of Court are set in the context of the values underlying them. What sort of civil litigation system do we want? What sort of system do we in fact have? Particular attention is paid to the linkages between the apparently discrete components of the process as set out in the Rules, linkages at the levels of both the underlying values and the actual practice. The use of procedures under the Rules to anticipate and resolve evidence problems that might arise at trial is emphasized. Interprovincial and international aspects of the civil litigation process are also considered.
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3 credits
This course is an examination of the fundamental concepts of evidence law, including the traditional rules as compared to the emerging principled approach, and such core and primary topics as the adversary system; relevance and discretionary exclusion; privilege; burdens of proof; character evidence; judicial notice; competence and compellability; examination of witnesses; hearsay; and opinion evidence.
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3 credits
This course is an introduction to issues of legal ethics and professional responsibility. Students become competent at ethical reasoning in the context of legal practice. To achieve this goal, the course covers selected topics in the 'law of lawyering' (for example, the Law Society of British Columbia's Code of Professional Conduct), but also addresses the general question of what it means to be an ethical lawyer. Students are expected to develop their awareness of the various moral values underlying the legal system, and to practice how to weigh and apply those values, and the law of lawyering, to ethical problems. Selected topics relating to the regulation of lawyers' ethics are also addressed.
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3 credits
This course provides an overview of the spectrum of the consensual dispute resolution process, including negotiation, collaborative lawyering, mediation, and judicial dispute resolution (JDR). Interest-based bargaining and mediation are emphasized.
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3 credits
This course builds on legal research instruction in the first year of the program and affords further opportunities to learn and practice research skills. Students are provided with instruction in research methodology, citation, print and electronic research/databases, covering case law, statute law, texts, periodicals and web-based materials.
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3 credits
This survey course examines the legal dimensions of amateur and professional sport. The course has an international perspective looking at Canadian, US, and UK case law. Topics include the governance and regulation of sport, tort law, contract law, and intellectual property rights. Particular topics include negligence and sports violence; the relationship between athlete, agent and employer/engager; sponsorship and ambush marketing; and doping.
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3 credits
Students examine and evaluate the effectiveness of the legal framework and policies governing professional sports leagues and international sports governing bodies. Students also compare approaches to governing sport in Canada, the U.S., and Europe. Topics include the monopoly structure of sport; the intersection of competition law and labour law; issues free agency and salary caps; franchise movement and stadium subsidies; and dispute resolution mechanisms.
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3 credits
Canadian Journal of Comparative and Contemporary Law is a course in which upper level Law students manage allaspects of editing the "Canadian Journal of Comparative and Contemporary Law." Students will assist in editingarticles for substance and style, and the accuracy and completeness of footnotes and quoted sources. Students willalso complete other journal-related tasks assigned by faculty editors in chief on an ad hoc basis.Note: Registration for this course will be done by the Faculty of Law. Prerequisite: Students must currently be enrolled in either full time second or third year of the JD program at the TRU Faculty of Law. Students will be competitively selected based on their legal research and writing skills, as evidenced primarily through their performance in the first year of the JD program at TRU Law. Preference may be given to students in their third year of the JD program. A STUDENT MAY REPEAT THIS COURSE FOR CREDIT BY SERVING AS A MANAGING EDITOR upon the recommendation of the Faculty Editors in Chief of the CLCCL.
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3 credits
Students develop appellate advocacy and other lawyering skills in the context of preparing for and participating in the British Columbia Law Schools Competitive Moot. Students generally argue a civil law (e.g., contract, property, or tort law) problem, but may argue problems in other areas of law. Prerequisite: Satisfactory completion of the first-year of the JD program and consent of Faculty.
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3 credits
Students develop lawyering skills, such as advocacy, negotiation, and consensus building, in the context of a non-competitive moot conducted in a circle arrangement. Students use a moot problem based on selected contemporary issues in Aboriginal-Government relations and draw generally upon both common law and Indigenous legal traditions. Prerequisite: Satisfactory completion of the first-year of the JD program and consent of the Faculty.
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3 credits
Students develop appellate advocacy and other lawyering skills in the context of preparing for and participating in the Wilson Moot. Students generally argue a problem related to the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, particularly around issues related to equality. Prerequisite: Satisfactory completion of the first-year of the JD program and consent of the faculty.
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9 credits
Placements are found for students in the Provincial Court to perform research, prepare memoranda, and meet and discuss with a supervising judge. Prerequisites: LAWF 3910 and LAWF 3920 and consent of the Dean or Associate Dean. Recommended Prerequisites: LAWF 3810 and LAWF 3820.
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3 credits
Students develop appellate advocacy and other lawyering skills in the context of preparing for and participating in the Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition. The Competition focuses on international public law and related areas of law. Corequisite: LAWF 3740 Prerequisite: Satisfactory completion of the first-year of the JD program and consent of the Faculty.
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3 credits
Students develop appellate advocacy and other lawyering skills in the context of preparing for and participating in the Davies Corporate/Securities Moot. Students argue a problem related to corporate and securities law. Prerequisite: Satisfactory completion of the first year of the JD program and consent of the Faculty Note: Students will receive credit for only one of LAWF 4060 or LAWF 3780 ST: Davies Corporate/Securities Moot.
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3 credits
Students develop lawyering skills, such as advocacy, negotiation, and consensus building, in the context of a negotiation competition. Students negotiate issues related to family law, such as the division of assets and child custody. Prerequisite: Satisfactory completion of the first year of the JD program and consent of the Faculty Note: Students will receive credit for only one of LAWF 4070 or LAWF 3780 ST: Family Law Moot.
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3 credits
Students develop appellate advocacy and other lawyering skills in the context of preparing for and participating in the Immigration, Refugee, and Citizenship Law Moot. Students argue problems related to the fields of immigration, refugee, and citizenship law and address related issues of administrative law. Prerequisite: Satisfactory completion of the first year of the JD program and consent of the Faculty. Note: Students will receive credit for only one LAWF 4080 or LAWF 3780 ST: Immigration and Refugee Law Moot.
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3 credits
Students develop trial advocacy and other lawyering skills in the context of preparing for and participating in the Western Canada Trial Competition. Students generally argue a criminal law problem. Prerequisite: Satisfactory completion of the first-year of the JD program and consent of the faculty.
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3 credits
LEAD 4901: Strategic Thinking for Leadership is a capstone 4th level course that brings together all of your leadership course work and experience to date. The course will focus on both strategic leadership and strategic management, including critical thinking, through the development and assessment of a strategic plan. You will also consider your organizational context and create a personal development plan to work on throughout the course. This course will help you to fine tune your strategic thinking skills to enable you to achieve superior results as leaders within an organization. Prerequisites: Students should have fourth-year standing in the TRU-OL Bachelor of Technology (Trades and Technology Leadership) degree program.
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1 credits
Students develop a general understanding of the Canadian legal system as a foundation for further study in the Legal Administration Assistant Certificate. Topics include an overview of the Canadian legal system, including Quebec's civil code system; introduction to the constitution and the Charter of Rights; federal and provincial jurisdiction; overview of Canadian court structure; the importance of the Charter of Rights, lawyers, judges and ethical principles; and tort, contract and criminal law. Prerequisite: ABTS 1100; ABTS 1300
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1 credits
Students are introduced to the legal profession, including the functions and duties of a legal administrative assistant in British Columbia. Topics include the legal profession; office duties and procedures; client record keeping; legal correspondence; and legal instruments and court documents. Prerequisite: ABTS 1110; ABTS 1310
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2 credits
Students are introduced to the functions and duties of a legal administrative assistant working in civil litigation in British Columbia. They learn to manage legal documents and procedures, from the initiation of a lawsuit through to the completion of pleadings and the possibility of obtaining a default judgment. This is a hands-on course in which students integrate keyboard, computer, transcription, and document formatting with a knowledge of civil law. Perequisite: LEGA 1010; LEGA 1020
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2 credits
Building on LEGA 1030: Litigation Procedures 1, students examine the documents and procedures from the discovery process to preparation and attendance at trial and post-trial procedures, including bills of costs and enforcement procedures, and also learn to prepare for Chambers hearings. This is a hands-on course in which students integrate keyboard, computer, transcription, and document formatting with a knowledge of civil law. Prerequisite: LEGA 1030
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2 credits
Students are introduced to the role and responsibilities of a legal administrative assistant employed in the field of family law in British Columbia. They gain knowledge and practical experience in topics such as statutes and rules, divorce and family courts, marriage in B.C., pre-nuptial and separation agreements, undefended and defended divorce actions, chamber applications, annulment, and applications to Provincial Court. This is a hands-on course in which students integrate their keyboard, computer, and document formatting skills within the context of family law. Prerequisite: LEGA 1030
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2 credits
Students are introduced to the role and responsibilities of a legal administrative assistant working in the field of corporate law. They receive an overview of the various forms of business organizations, with a focus on the corporation, covering incorporation procedures, post-incorporation procedures, and annual maintenance requirements of a private (non-reporting) British Columbia company. Prerequisite: LEGA 1010, LEGA 1020
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1 credits
Building on LEGA 1060: Corporate Procedures 1, students focus on corporate structure and completion of filing forms as related to sole proprietorships, partnerships, limited partnerships, societies, cooperatives, non-reporting companies, and extra-provincial non-reporting companies. They are also introduced to securities and to BC OnLine which is an Internet access to government services and information about companies in British Columbia. Prerequisite: LEGA 1060
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2 credits
Students are introduced to the role and responsibilities of a legal administrative assistant employed in the field of conveyancing in British Columbia. They gain knowledge and practical experience in topics such as systems of land registration, land title searches, contracts of purchase and sale, methods to convey interests in land, statements of adjustments, and the execution and registration of electronic documents filed in the Land Title Office. The focus is on the purchaser's procedures for a simple conveyance not involving financing. Prerequisite: LEGA 1010, LEGA 1020
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2 credits
Building on LEGA 1080: Conveyancing Procedures 1, students are introduced to the role and responsibilities of a legal administrative assistant employed in the field of conveyancing in British Columbia. They gain knowledge and practical experience in topics such as methods to convey interests in land involving purchaser financing, strata property considerations, builders' liens, acting for the vendor, acting for mortgage lenders, additional adjustments for statements of adjustments, authorities to pay, the execution and registration of electronic documents filed in the Land Title Office, acting for both the purchaser and mortgagee, and documents for the transfer of manufactured homes. Prerequisite: LEGA 1080
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2 credits
Students are introduced to the role and responsibilities of a legal administrative assistant employed in the field of wills and estates in British Columbia. They gain knowledge and practical experience in preparation of wills and codicils, and the documents necessary to apply for grants of Letters Probate and Letters of Administration (with and without a will), Administration Bonds, transferring assets from the deceased, and winding up estates. They prepare documents acceptable to the Probate Registry for filing, followed by transmission and distribution of estates. This is a hands-on course in which students integrate keyboard, computer, document formatting, and transcription skills within the context of estate law. Prerequisite: LEGA 1010, LEGA 1020
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2 credits
Students are introduced to the specific area of civil litigation in British Columbia that deals with personal injury lawsuits. Topics include the definition of a personal injury lawsuit; opening a personal injury file; coming legal proceedings; motor vehicle accidents and the Insurance Corporation of British Columbia; parts of a personal injury claim; discovery; experts; and resolution. This is primarily a hands-on course in which you will integrate keyboard, computer, transcription, and document formatting with a knowledge of civil law in general and personal injury law specifically. Prerequisite: LEGA 1030
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3 credits
An introduction to phonetics, phonology and morphology. Students learn the basic physiology of the vocal tract, use of the International Phonetic Alphabet, sound patterning, and word formation. Data from a wide variety of languages are used for illustrative purposes. Students are not expected to have prior knowledge of these languages, though some knowledge of at least one second language is an asset. Prerequisite: Recommended - 6 credits of any English and/or Modern language courses or equivalent
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3 credits
An introduction to syntax, semantics, and language issues. Students are introduced to the science of sentence structure and meaning and then explore one or more topics such as Language acquisition, history, etc. Data from a wide variety of languages are used for illustrative purposes. Students are not expected to have prior knowledge of these languages, though basic knowledge of at least one second language is an asset. Prerequisite: Recommended - Completion of 6 credits of English and/or Modern Languages courses
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