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These Course Descriptions include updates that were added after the original publication on April 2, 2018.
New students who are entering the college for the first time should follow this version when selecting courses.
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New students who are entering the college for the first time should follow this version when selecting courses.
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LGLA 1300 (3 Credit Hours)
Offered at ECC Elder Law This is a WECM Course Number. Course Description: Fundamental concepts of elder law, including financial and estate planning, public benefits, health care, personal planning and protection, and consumer protection emphasizing the paralegal's role in elder law. (3 Lec.) |
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LGLA 1301 (3 Credit Hours)
Offered at ECC Legal Research and Writing This is a WECM Course Number. Prerequisite Required: College-level ready in Reading and Writing. Course Description: Presents the fundamentals of legal research and writing emphasizing the paralegal's role including resources and processes used in legal research and writing. (3 Lec.) |
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LGLA 1311 (3 Credit Hours)
Offered at EFC, ECC, RLC Introduction to Law This is a WECM Course Number. Course Description: Presents legal terminology relating to substantive areas of law and the federal and state judicial systems. Emphasizes the paralegal's role in the legal system. (3 Lec.) |
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LGLA 1313 (3 Credit Hours)
Offered at EFC, ECC, RLC Introduction to Paralegal Studies This is a WECM Course Number. Course Description: An overview of the paralegal profession including, professional regulation, trends and issues, ethical obligations, and the paralegal's role in the delivery of legal services. (3 Lec.) |
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LGLA 1317 (3 Credit Hours)
Offered at EFC, ECC, RLC Law Office Technology This is a WECM Course Number. Course Description: Computer technology and software applications within the law office emphasizing the paralegal's role in the use of law office technology. (3 Lec.) |
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LGLA 1323 (3 Credit Hours)
Offered at ECC Employment Law This is a WECM Course Number. Course Description: Presents the fundamental concepts of employment law, including employment contracts, at-will employment, governmental regulations, and discrimination issues, emphasizing the paralegal's role in employment law. (3 Lec.) |
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LGLA 1343 (3 Credit Hours)
Offered at ECC Bankruptcy This is a WECM Course Number. Course Description: Fundamental concepts of bankruptcy law and procedure are presented including individual and business liquidation and reorganization with emphasis on the paralegal's role. (3 Lec.) |
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LGLA 1345 (3 Credit Hours)
Offered at ECC Civil Litigation This is a WECM Course Number. Prerequisite Recommended: LGLA 1301, LGLA 1311, LGLA 1313, LGLA 1317. Course Description: Presents fundamental concepts and procedures of civil litigation including pretrial, trial, and post-trial phases of litigation and emphasizes the paralegal's role in civil litigation. (3 Lec.) |
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LGLA 1351 (3 Credit Hours)
Offered at ECC Contracts This is a WECM Course Number. Prerequisite Recommended: LGLA 1301, LGLA 1311, LGLA 1313, LGLA 1317. Course Description: Presents fundamental concepts of contract law including formation, performance, and enforcement of contracts under the common law and the Uniform Commercial Code with emphasis on the paralegal's role in contract law. (3 Lec.) |
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LGLA 1353 (3 Credit Hours)
Offered at ECC Wills, Trusts, and Probate Administration This is a WECM Course Number. Prerequisite Recommended: LGLA 1301, LGLA 1311, LGLA 1313, LGLA 1317. Course Description: Fundamental concepts of the law of wills, trusts, and probate administration emphasizing the paralegal's role. (3 Lec.) |
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LGLA 1355 (3 Credit Hours)
Offered at ECC Family Law This is a WECM Course Number. Prerequisite Recommended: LGLA 1301, LGLA 1311, LGLA 1313, LGLA 1317. Course Description: Fundamental concepts of family law including formal and informal marriages, divorce, annulment, martial property, and the parent-child relationship with emphasis on the paralegal's role in family law. (3 Lec.) |
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LGLA 1359 (3 Credit Hours)
Offered at ECC Immigration Law This is a WECM Course Number. Course Description: Presents fundamental concepts of immigration law including substantive and procedural law related to visa applications, deportation, naturalization, and citizenship emphasizing the paralegal's role in immigration law. (3 Lec.) |
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LGLA 1380 (3 Credit Hours)
Offered at ECC Cooperative Education-Legal Assistant/Paralegal This is a WECM Course Number. Course Description: Career-related activities encountered in the student's area of specialization offered through an individualized agreement among the college, employer, and student. Under the supervision of the college and the employer, the student combines classroom learning with work experience. Includes a lecture component. (2 Lec., 16 Ext.) |
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LGLA 2303 (3 Credit Hours)
Offered at ECC Torts and Personal Injury Law This is a WECM Course Number. Prerequisite Recommended: LGLA 1301, LGLA 1311, LGLA 1313, LGLA 1317. Course Description: Fundamental concepts of tort and personal injury law including intentional torts, negligence, and strick liability are presented with emphasis on the paralegal's role in tort and personal injury law. (3 Lec.) |
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LGLA 2309 (3 Credit Hours)
Offered at ECC Real Property This is a WECM Course Number. Prerequisite Recommended: LGLA 1301, LGLA 1311, LGLA 1313, LGLA 1317. Course Description: Presents fundamental concepts of real property law including the nature of real property, rights and duties of ownership, land use, voluntary and involuntary conveyances, and the recording of and searching for real estate documents emphasizing the paralegal's role in real property law. (3 Lec.) |
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LGLA 2311 (3 Credit Hours)
Offered at ECC Business Organizations This is a WECM Course Number. Prerequisite Recommended: LGLA 1301, LGLA 1311, LGLA 1313, LGLA 1317. Course Description: Basic concepts of business organizations including law of agency, sole proprietorships, partnerships, corporations, and other emerging business entities with emphasis on the paralegal's role. (3 Lec.) |
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LGLA 2313 (3 Credit Hours)
Offered at ECC Criminal Law and Procedure This is a WECM Course Number. Course Description: Fundamental concepts of criminal law and procedure from arrest to final disposition including principles of federal and state law emphasizing the role of the paralegal in the criminal justice system. (3 Lec.) |
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LGLA 2315 (3 Credit Hours)
Offered at ECC Oil and Gas Law This is a WECM Course Number. Course Description: Fundamental concepts of criminal law and procedure from arrest to final disposition including principles of federal and state law emphasizing the role of the paralegal in the criminal justice system. (3 Lec.) |
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LGLA 2323 (3 Credit Hours)
Offered at ECC Intellectual Property This is a WECM Course Number. Course Description: Presents the fundamentals of intellectual property law including creation, procurement, preparation, and filing of documents related to patents, copyrights, trademarks, and the processes of intellectual property litigation. Emphasizes the paralegal's role in intellectual property law. (3 Lec.) |
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LGLA 2331 (3 Credit Hours)
Offered at ECC Advanced Legal Research and Writing This is a WECM Course Number. Course Description: Builds on previous legal research and writing courses and covers standard and electronic research techniques and preparation of complex legal documents with emphasis on the paralegal's role. (3 Lec.) * Note: This Course Description includes updates that were added after it was originally published on April 2, 2018. (Original) | (Changes) |
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LGLA 2335 (3 Credit Hours)
Offered at ECC Advanced Civil Litigation This is a WECM Course Number. Course Description: This course provides opportunities to implement advanced civil litigation techniques and builds upon skills acquired in prior civil litigation courses with emphasis on the paralegal's role. Common law and statutory civil litigation concepts, ethical obligations of the paralegal assisting in civil litigation work, alternative dispute resolution processes, are reviewed. (3 Lec.) |
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LGLA 2380 (3 Credit Hours)
Offered at ECC Cooperative Education-Legal Assistant/Paralegal This is a WECM Course Number. Course Description: Career-related activities encountered in the student's area of specialization offered through an individualized agreement among the college, employer, and student. Under the supervision of the college and the employer, the student combines classroom learning with work experience. Includes a lecture component. (2 Lec.,16 Ext.) |
Academic Courses
Designated by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board for transfer among community colleges and state public four year colleges and universities as freshman and sophomore general education courses.
WECM Courses
Designated by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board as workforce education (technical) courses offered for credit and CEUs (Continuing Education Units). While these courses are designed to transfer among state community colleges, they are not designed to automatically transfer to public four-year colleges and universities.
Designated by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board for transfer among community colleges and state public four year colleges and universities as freshman and sophomore general education courses.
WECM Courses
Designated by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board as workforce education (technical) courses offered for credit and CEUs (Continuing Education Units). While these courses are designed to transfer among state community colleges, they are not designed to automatically transfer to public four-year colleges and universities.
