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Paralegal Program Information
Schenectady County Community College
Paralegal Studies Program
Department of Business and Law
78 Washington Avenue
Schenectady, New York
12305
Telephone: 518.345.6211
Fax: n/a
Degrees
Associate in Applied Science
Description
The Schenectady County Community College, New York is a part of the State University of New York. This college has a curriculum that provides quality education to its students enrolled in any of the 41 transfer degree courses, certificate programs or career degree options. The mentioned list of programs offered at the Schenectady County Community College, also includes an A.A. S program in the domain of legal assistance referred to as the Paralegal Studies Program. The Paralegal Studies Program Objectives The program is devised to educate and train the students in various parameters as desired to mark a well planned career as paralegal. Paralegals presently are in great demand, and the statistics reveal, that the trend would continue. Keeping the same in perspective, the Schenectady County Community College offers a program, which prepares students to take up entry level positions as Assistants to trained attorneys. Program Details The A.A.S in Paralegal Studies is a two year program which includes courses on various subjects like, business law, introduction to computers, introduction to literature, professional and applied ethics, mathematics, survey of American law, legal research, courts and litigation, estates and trust, real property, humanities electives, science elective, accounts for decision making, etc. The mentioned and various other courses carry a weightage of three credit hours each. As evident, the courses in the curriculum cover both, core introductory courses in law and other basic subjects of relevance.
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