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Analyze the personal qualities and aptitudes of a legal professional
Assessment Strategies
Group Assignment/Project, Personality Test
Criteria
Acquaint yourself with positive habits that influence a successful legal career
Identify the skills essential for an effective legal professional
Identify the soft skills needed for successful client, office, and third-party relationships
Align your personality traits to the essential skills necessary to become an effective legal professional
Describe the role of teamwork in successful client, office, and third-party relationships
Believe in the use of inclusive, non-alienating language as a legal professional
Examine compensation in the legal field
Explain various uses of technology in the legal field
Apply the methodology of knowing your own personality through 16 Personalities to better understand yourself and to meet the needs of others
Assignment includes personality types, including your own and others
Assignment summarizes how to best increase productivity, teamwork, and communication
Assignment addresses the role of cultural identity and inclusivity during the implementation of services for all clients
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Examine the professional organizations available to a legal professional and what they offer
Assessment Strategies
Group Assignment/Project, Interaction with leaders in legal professional organizations
Criteria
Identify legal professional organizations on the local, state, and national level
Describe the importance of networking when employed and looking for employment in the legal field
Investigate scholarship opportunities offered by professional organizations
Investigate professional certifications offered by professional organizations
Investigate mentorships offered by professional organizations
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Explore the broad range of career opportunities and tasks performed by legal professionals
Assessment Strategies
Group Assignment/Project
Criteria
Describe career opportunities available to a graduate of this program as a legal professional
Identify the variety of tasks performed by legal professionals
Identify workplace practices that support cultural inclusivity
Assignment includes legal practice areas, types of organizations, sizes of organizations, and office cultures
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Evaluate the classes available in the Legal Studies/Paralegal Program
Assessment Strategies
Skill demonstration - enroll in Madison College classes
Criteria
Explain the Legal Studies/Paralegal Program class list and sequencing
Identify legal "selective" classes that students may choose from
Identify the classes that comprise the International Certificate in the Legal Studies/Paralegal Program
Locate transferability information from the Legal Studies/Paralegal Program to four-year institutions
Enroll in classes using the Student Portal
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Use skills and strategies that assist with a successful transition into the Legal Studies/Paralegal Program
Assessment Strategies
Journal, keyboarding test, grammar test, legal research online training
Criteria
Access software available to you by the College
Locate resources on the College library law webpages
Examine resources from the State Bar of Wisconsin
Identify time management techniques
Work with the virtual desktop
Identify skills, practices, and/or processes needed to function effectively and appropriately with people from diverse backgrounds, cultures, and traditions
Achieve the keyboarding and grammar tests at the level specified by the instructor
You use inclusive, non-alienating language
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Prepare for upcoming semester enrollment
Assessment Strategies
One-on-one meeting with an advisor, skill demonstration - enrolling in upcoming semester classes
Criteria
Locate your transfer credits, if any
Locate your placement scores, if applicable
Determine which classes you must complete based on transfer credits and placement scores
Choose your next semester classes
Enroll in the next semester classes
You use the Student Portal