Registrar
IMPORTANT DATES TO REMEMBERDecember 7, 2009 January 9, 2010 January 11, 2009 January 18, 2010 |
GENERAL REGISTRATION INFORMATION
You will be registering for classes via SISWEB on a "first come, first served" basis. Current third-year students will register for classes from 9 a.m. to 11:30 a.m., current second-year students will register from 1:30 p.m. to 4 p.m. Students who do not register during their designated time lose their priority. If registering on your assigned date and time creates a problem for you, contact the Law School Registrar before registration. Staff will be present in our Registrar's Office at 752-4299 or 752-0246 during enrollment.
SISWEB will be closed from 4 p.m. on December 7th until until 6:00 a.m. on January 9th. Once it reopens, the system will be open from 6:00 a.m. until 12:00 midnight each day, with limited hours on weekends.
COURSE ADVISING
After your first year, you are required to take Professional Responsibility, complete one professional skills course and satisfy the Writing Requirement. The way you design the remainder of your studies here at King Hall is largely left to your discretion. With this in mind, deciding what courses to take in your second and third year can seem like a daunting task. However, there are a number of resources available to you when making decisions about your course selection. Please keep these in mind:
- Review Curriculum Clusters for 2L and 3L courses here Curriculum.
- Seek out your professors--they are the best source of advice for making decisions about what courses to take and when. Several will also post notices or memoranda sharing their advice with you. Please be sure to look at the bulletin boards outside their office for information.
- Speak to second and third-year students who can share with you their experiences here at King Hall.
- Speak to practitioners about what courses they felt were valuable during law school.
- You may also set up an individual appointment with Dean Kulwin discuss your schedule. Contact the Dean's Office Assistant to schedule an appointment.
- While not required, you should keep in mind the second and third year courses which cover subjects tested on the California Bar Examination. (Bar courses are listed below).
- You should review the Summary of Graduation Requirements.
- You should review the Law School Regulations which govern your academic life here at King Hall.
- Read through the Course Descriptions for prerequisite information.
- Talk to the Rena Contreras, Clinical and Externship Coordinator or Prof. Bill Hing, Clinical Director, about clinical opportunities.
- If you are planning to do a Independent Study (Law 499), Advanced Writing Project (Law 419), or participate in an Interschool Competition (Law 413), you must sign up for these units by completing the appropriate form through the Registrar's Office by the fourth week of the semester. These units require a faculty supervisor’s signature as well as the approval of the Assistant Dean for Student Affairs.
Professional Responsibility Requirement: in 2009-10, two courses satisfy the Professional Responsibility Requirement: Legal Ethics and Corporate Practice (Fall) and Professional Responsibility (Spring). Students may take one of these courses but not both.
Course Scheduling:
You may register for a total of 17 units (including courses you are on the waiting list for). Full-time status is defined as being registered for 10 units. Keep in mind that we don't do a unit check until after the 3rd week of classes. In other words, if you plan to enroll in clinic or externship units or 400 unit-courses at a later date, you don't need to wait list yourself or enroll in a class you don't plan to take just to maintain full-time status. To enroll in clinics, externship and 400-unit courses you need to complete the necessary paperwork. The Registrar's Office will enroll you into these classes once the necessary paperwork is completed. The registration system will not allow you to enroll in two courses which are scheduled at the same time, or have overlapping time frames. This holds true for courses you are waitlisted for as well. When possible, we alleviate the schedule-conflicts problem by scheduling two sections of high-demand courses, one in each semester.
Web Registration:
Go to SISWEB. Click on LOGIN. This is where you will use your UCD Login ID and your Kerberos Password. These are the tools you currently use to access your e-mail account. The system will then ask you for your ID# and your PAC number. Once the 3Ls have registered, the Open Course List will become active so you can access a list of open classes. If a class does not appear on the list, then you can assume the course is full and a waiting list is being generated.
List of Open Courses:
The Open Course List displays classes which still have seats available. On December 7th, after 12:00 noon, the Open Course List will become available for second year students preparing to register for courses. This list is updated every 30 minutes. If a class does not appear on the list, you can assume the course is full and a waiting list is being generated.
Wait Lists:
Wait-list units are included in the 17-unit total. Class size is determined by the nature of the class and the seating capacity of the classroom. When courses are overenrolled, a wait list is generated automatically by SISWEB. If you attempt to register for a course which is overenrolled, you will receive a message telling you that the class is closed and is currently on a waiting list. You need to take an additional step to place yourself on the waitlist. If you don't submit this additional request, you will not be placed on the waitlist. To find out your placement on the wait list, go back to the registration menu and choose your Student Detail Schedule. If you attempt to register for a class that meets at the same time as a course you are on the waitlist for, the system will assume you are no longer interested in the waitlisted course and enroll you for the new course you've requested. You will be dropped from waitlisted courses if you attempt to enroll for another course which meets at the same time.
Dropping and Adding Courses:
For the first eight calendar days of the new semester, you can add or drop open classes on SISWEB. You can also place yourself on a wait list for any overenrolled classes. After the first eight calendar days of the semester, you will need the instructor's approval to drop or all classes. Please pick up an ADD/DROP Card from the Registrar's Office to collect the professor's signature. After the 3rd week of classes, you will not be permitted to drop a class if it takes you below 10 units.
Overenrolled Courses:
TO PRESERVE YOUR PLACE IN AN OVERENROLLED COURSE, YOU MUST ATTEND THE FIRST CLASS SESSION OF THE COURSE AND SIGN THE CLASS ATTENDANCE SHEET. If you are on a wait list for the class or if you simply want to try to get into it, you also must attend the first class and sign the class attendance sheet. When openings occur in the class, students will be assigned off the class attendance sheet with wait-listed students receiving priority. You may not sign the class attendance sheet for another student. Doing so will be considered a violation of student judicial affairs conduct rule 102.02.
Prerequisites:
SISWEB does not check to see if you have completed prerequisites for a particular course; this is your responsibility. Faculty members have the right to ask students to leave a class if they have not completed the appropriate prerequisite. You should refer to the Course Description to determine course prerequisites.
Variable Unit Courses:
If there is no CRN number listed on the course schedule list, you may not enroll in the course through SISWEB. These courses will need prior approval and must be done by submitting the proper form(s) to the Law School Registrar's Office.
Deferred Classes:
Students cannot enroll for first-year deferred courses. If you have deferred a first-year class, you will need to email the Registrar's Office with the course information for the course which you would like to be enrolled in. As long as you have enough units available in your schedule, and no other course/time conflicts, the Registrar's Office will enroll you for the course.
Non-Law Courses:
You cannot register for non-law courses on the web. Please check with Law School Registrar's Office for procedures.
Clinical Units:
All second- and third-year students in good standing are eligible to take clinical courses through the formal Clinical Programs. The clinicals have varying application procedures, requirements, pre-requisites and unit allocations. If you plan to take a clinical, design your class schedule to leave blocks of time free for clinical work.
Externships:
If enrolled in a class in addition to the semester-away externship, a maximum of 14 units is allowed. Semester-away externships should ordinarily be taken only in a student's 4th or 5th semester of law study. If you wish to take a semester-away externship, you should plan your class schedule with special care to be sure you are able to take what you need while you are at the law school. Please contact Rena Contreras, Externship Coordinator for application and placement information.
Courses Tested on the California State Bar Exam:
Business Associations
Constitutional Law II
Criminal Procedure
Evidence
Marital Property
Remedies
Trust, Wills and Estates
Professional Responsibility*
* Professional Responsibility is tested both on the California Bar examination and through the Multi State Professional Responsibility Exam (MPRE) which can be taken during your second or third year. Professional Responsibility is a required course.
Professional Skills Courses:
470 Administration of Criminal Justice Externship
297 Alternative Dispute Resolution
410B Appellate Advocacy (Moot Court)
410A Appellate Advocacy (Moot Court)
228 Business Planning
420 Civil Rights Clinic
455 Employment Relations Externship
450 Environmental Law Externship
223 Estate Planning Seminar
435 Family Protection Clinic
430 Federal Taxation Externship
440 Immigration Law Clinic
425 Judicial Externship
445 Legislative Process Externship
239 Mediation: Theory and Practice
211 Negotiations
271 Nonprofit Organizations
271A Nonprofit Organizations I
271B Nonprofit Organizations II
278 Pretrial Skills
288B Supreme Court Simulation Seminar
480 Prison Law Clinic
460 Public Interest Law Externship
263A Trial Practice I
Moot Court and Trial Competitions
In order to receive credit for a competition, you must sign up for a 413 Competition by completing a form available in the Registrar's Office by the 4th week of the semester.
Environmental Law Certificate Program
Class Attendance
The instructor has the authority to refuse permission for you to take the final examination if you fail to attend class regularly.
Final Examination Schedule
Please review the Academic Regulations Paragraph 2.2 so you are aware of the limitations on examination rescheduling, particularly 2.2A(3) which states that exams can only be rescheduled if an unforeseen, extraordinary circumstance arises. Exams will not be rescheduled based on airline or other travel arrangements, even if the tickets have already been purchased. Also, note that the only basis on which an exam can be rescheduled due to the spacing of exams on the exam schedule itself is if you have two regularly scheduled examinations on the same day [2.2A(1)].
Incompletes
Please note that, under Academic Regulation 3.5B, you must complete the course work required to remove an Incomplete within the time specified by the instructor, but in no event later than the last day of the second succeeding semester in which you are in residence at the school. Thus, if you have an incomplete from Fall 2009, you must complete in no later than the end of Fall 2010. If the course work is not completed, the Incomplete converts to an "F."
Order of the Coif
To qualify for the Order of the Coif, (1) your GPA must place you in the top 10% of your class, and (2) 75% of your units must be taken in letter-graded courses.
