Get Ready for your Career!
Gain knowledge, explore values, and develop core skills in the English Pre-Law program at IUP.
- Prepare legal forms, pleadings, memoranda, and other written documents
- Analyze and critically examine a diverse range of communication
- Practice oral and written argument
- Understand the use of legal terminology
- Practice research methods and document evaluation
- Consider how literature and storytelling fit into law
With a Pre-Law English minor, one of your required liberal studies courses, ENGL 121 Humanities Literature, already counts. Just choose five additional courses, two of which are 300-level or above. Not all your courses have to be pre-law. Some you might consider:
- ENGL 227 Introduction to Legal Writing
- ENGL 265 Law and Literature
- ENGL 212 American Literature
- ENGL 222 Technical Writing
- ENGL 301 Public Speaking
- ENGL 313 Rhetorical Trends and Traditions
- ENGL 321 Persuasive Speech and Writing
- ENGL 421 Digital Writing
- ENGL 493 Internship