Prelaw
The Prelaw major at BJU is designed to help you gain admission to law school and to be successful in the pursuit of your law degree. Beyond providing excellent academic instruction, we want to help you establish a strong spiritual and ethical basis on which to build your career so that you will make your influence felt in a society that is abandoning Judeo-Christian tradition for humanistic philosophies.
Our Prelaw curriculum was designed to reflect the broadly based undergraduate program recommended by the Law School Admission Council. It emphasizes those academically rigorous subjects which best prepare an undergraduate student for law school, featuring concentrations in English, writing, history, political science, and economics. Law school is about language—reading, writing, and speaking. The more essay tests and term papers you have to write during your college career, the greater are your chances for success in law school.
Curriculum Highlights
- Freshman
- Composition & Rhetoric
- History of Civilization
- Composition & Literature
- Principles of Accounting I & II
- Sophomore
- United States History
- British Literature
- American Literature
- Production Fundamentals
- Junior
- Principles of Macroeconomics
- English Electives
- Sociology Electives
- Writing Electives
- Principles of Microeconomics
- Senior
- Oral Communication for the Professions
- Political Science Electives
- History Electives
- Rhetoric & Public Address Electives
For further details see complete major information:
Prelaw Personal Opportunity Profile
You may also contact Admissions (1.800.BJ.AND.ME) to receive a printed copy of this information.
Key Courses
Principles of Accounting In this class you will learn about the fundamental accounting procedures, journals, ledgers, financial statements, and uses made of accounting information.
Principles of Microeconomics This course will give you an introduction to microeconomics necessary to an understanding of prices and markets, principles guiding individuals and firms making choices to maximize returns in a world of limited resources, the structure of markets, and the factors of production.
Critical Writing This course teaches and provides techniques of analytical and evaluative writing with individual critiques of your own literary weaknesses by a published author. It is perhaps the most helpful course in the prelaw program in preparing you for law school.
Career Opportunities
Although admission to law school is highly competitive, academically qualified graduates of Bob Jones University have had a 100 percent acceptance rate to law school over the last decade. They have attended leading institutions in many states and have made outstanding records. Our graduates excel in law school because of our emphasis on communication skills. Some years ago the Supreme Court of South Carolina published guidelines for the undergraduate Prelaw curriculum, and our program met every specific suggestion.