Reminder about what you need to graduate with your Law BA

This section is for topics relevant to Undergrad Law students only! All other announcements can be found in the General Announcements section.
Post Reply
Undergraduate Law BA
Posts: 409
Joined: Tue Oct 11, 2022 1:02 pm

Reminder about what you need to graduate with your Law BA

Post by Undergraduate Law BA »

Happy end of the fall semester

Calendar reminder: https://www.buffalo.edu/registrar/calen ... endar.html
Winter courses begin 12/26/2025
Spring courses begin 1/21/2026


Just a reminder of what you needed to graduate with your Law BA: https://catalogs.buffalo.edu/content.ph ... quirements

1. 120 credits
2. At least 20 of those 120 credits must be taken at UB
3. 45 of the 120 credits must be 300/400 level courses
4. UB Curriculum: see below https://catalogs.buffalo.edu/content.ph ... navoid=880
5. Your major Curriculum - Law BA: see below https://catalogs.buffalo.edu/preview_pr ... turnto=878
6. 2.0 cumulative GPA

UB Curriculum https://catalogs.buffalo.edu/content.ph ... navoid=880

1. UB Seminar
2. Communication Literacy 1 course: ENG 105
3. Communication Literacy 2 course: see list at link above
4. Math Reasoning course - one course, see list at link above
5. Scientific Literacy course - two (2) courses and a one-credit lab course, see list at link above
6. Pathways https://shibboleth.buffalo.edu/idp/prof ... ution=e2s1
  • Global - three (3) courses
  • Thematic - three (3) courses
7. UB Curricular Capstone : UBC 399 (must complete or register for all courses above before you can register for UBC 399)

Law BA: https://catalogs.buffalo.edu/preview_pr ... turnto=878

1. LAW 101 Introduction to the American Legal System
2. LAW 201 Common Law
3. LAW 202 Public Law
4. Legal Reasoning: LAW 301 Legal reasoning or LAW 302 Legal Research Methods - these courses do not also count as 300-level Intermediate Electives
5. Three (3) Intermediate Electives - 300-level LAW courses
4. Two (2) Advanced Law Seminars - 400-level LAW courses
5. One Critical Reasoning course, see list at link above
6. One Problems and Issues course, see list at link above
7. One Systems and Context course, see list at link above
8. Two (2) Subject Focus courses:
  • One from the list at the link above
  • The second Subject Focus course is a second course from Critical Reasoning, Problems and Issues, Systems and Contexts or Subject Focus lists.
9. Academic performance requirements in the major:
  • You must have a grade of C or above in LAW 101, LAW 201, LAW 303 and LAW 301 or LAW 302; and
  • You must have a Major GPA of 2.0 (all courses taken for the major)
You can check where you are in your program and your performance on HUB in your Academic Advising Report under the Academic Progress tab at: Academic Advisement Report (AAR) - Offi ... at Buffalo
Post Reply

Who is online

Users browsing this forum: No registered users