University of Maryland School of Law : Catalog, 1988-1989

Course Requirements. First-year
classes are generally scheduled
Monday through Friday between
the hours of 9:10 a.m. and 5:00
p.m. Schedules are determined by
the section assignment, which is
made in early August. Assignment
to sections is done at random.
Only exceptional circumstances
will permit a change in scheduling.
Because of the schedule and the
academic workload, students
should not expect to be able to
maintain employment during the
first year.
Evening students take all firstyear
required courses (10 credits
per semester) as described in
Course Requirements. Classes for
required evening courses are scheduled
to meet Monday, Wednesday
and Friday evenings between the
hours of 6:25 p.m. and 10:15 p.m.
Part-time day students take
nine credits in the fall semester.
These credits usually will include
Civil Procedure I (3), Contracts
I (2), Legal Method-Process (2)
and Torts I (2); the spring semester
schedule requirement is 10 credits,
including Civil Procedure II (3),
Contracts II (3), Legal Method-
Process/Moot Court (1) and Torts
II (3).
Upper-Class Students' Schedules. To
fulfill the residency requirement,
day division students are required
to carry not less than 11 hours nor
more than 16 hours of course work
during the third, fourth, fifth and
sixth semesters; evening division
students are required to carry not
less than 8 nor more than 12 hours
during the third, fourth, fifth,
sixth, seventh and eighth semesters
of residence,
Students may not transfer from
one division to another without
permission of the dean. Students
must take a majority of credits in
the division, day or evening, for
which they are registered. Courses
offered at 4:25, 5:05 or 5:25 p.m,
or on Saturdays are considered
both day and evening courses for
purposes of this rule.
Course Selection. Students are not
permitted to delay taking required
courses, such as Constitutional
Law, Income Taxation and Evidence.
Students are permitted to
switch from one section of a course
to another, if enrollment in the
other section does not exceed the
maximum permitted.
Students assigned to different
sections of a course may switch
with one another, if both register
for the course and plan to take it.
Both students must submit the
written request to Dean Forsyth.
Any student beyond the first
year who has been assigned to a
section of a multi-sectioned offering
and who has previously been
assigned to one or more courses
taught by the same instructor for
more than three credits (not
counting the section at issue) will
be assigned upon request to a different
section.
The rules on section-switching
(a) apply to a transfer from one
day or evening section to another,
to a transfer from a day section to
an evening section, and to a transfer
from an evening section to a
day section; but (b) do not apply
to first-year courses or to the
"limited enrollment" courses, such
as Trial Practice and Counseling
and Negotiation, where special
registration procedures are followed.
A student may not take for
credit two courses in which a class
session of one course is regularly
scheduled to meet at the same
time as a class session of the other
course.
For rules relating to multiple
credit for a single piece of written
work, see page 80.
A student may not drop or add
a course after the third week of a
semester (or of the year, if a yearlong
course), except by permission
of the dean and, if a seminar, the
instructor. At the time of advance
registration, instructors may state
exceptions to this general adddrop
rule. A student may drop or
add a clinical program at any time
prior to the end of the first day of
classes for the semester in which
the student commences the clinical
program. During the remainder
of the first week of the semester, a
student may drop a clinical program
only with the permission of
the instructor. A student may add
a clinical program with the permission
of the instructor at any time
prior to the end of the second
week of the semester.
A course may be audited only
with the permission of the instructor.
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