Curriculum
A student must complete 90 credit hours to graduate. That means an average of 15 credit hours each semester after completing your required first-year curriculum.
After completing your first year at Creighton University School of Law you’re required to earn 58 additional hours to graduate. To achieve that, you must take an average of 15 hours in each of your last four semesters. To reduce that number, you can take summer courses.
Credit hours are awarded based on a minimum of 700 minutes of instruction per credit hour.
Second-year Curriculum
Fall Semester
- Law 205 Legal Research and Writing III (3 credits)
- Other Required and Elective Courses (8-15)
Required Second-year Courses (students may take these courses in either semester)
- Law 203 Professional Responsibility (3)
- Law 335 Business Associations (4)
- Law 341 Criminal Procedure (3)
- Law 355 Evidence (3)
- Law 457 Trusts and Estates (3/4)
- Law 429 Commercial Law (3)
Third Year Curriculum
Fall Semester
- Required and Electives Courses (10-17)
Spring Semester
- Required and Elective Courses (10-17)
Experiential Learning Requirement (see details below)
Credit Hours
A student must complete 90 credit hours to graduate. That means an average of 15 credit hours each semester after completing your required first-year curriculum. The number of credit hours is listed above in parenthesis for each class.
Externships
Externships offer Creighton law students the opportunity to earn credit for unpaid work in the public sector. You’ll earn at least three credit hours and be graded on a satisfactory/unsatisfactory basis.
Our list of available externships is extensive. They are in the offices of county attorneys, city attorneys, public defenders, judges, nonprofit hospitals, universities and other nonprofits. They’re on campus—and across the state, the country and even the world. Some require senior certification; and some have course prerequisites.