ACADEMIC PLANNING

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ACADEMIC PLANNING

• THE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA
• FREDERIC G. LEVIN
• COLLEGE OF LAW

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The ISIS Registration System

• Three phases to registration.
• Advanced Registration
• Start times are usually at the middle of April
  for Summer/Fall and the beginning of November for
  the Spring term.
• Schedule Adjustment
• Immediately follows advanced registration and
  flows into drop/add.
• Drop/Add
• Begins the first day of classes and ends at
  1159pm on the 5th day of classes for
  spring/fall, the 2nd day of classes for summer.

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The ISIS Registration System

• Open from 800 am to 400 am on scheduled dates.
• See the law schools Student Handbook,
  http//www.law.ufl.edu/students/handbook.shtml,
  for the registration schedule for specific terms.
• Registration start times will be enforced during
  Advance Registration.
• These start times are staggered to manage the
  overall load on the system and are prioritized
  based on total credits earned. Students with the
  same credit hours earned are randomly assigned
  times.

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The ISIS Registration System

• Registration start times for each student are
  assigned and enforced 800 a.m. to 500 p.m.
• You can find your assigned start time under
  Registration Prep in the My Online Services
  menu.
• You may begin registering at or anytime after
  your start time in the Advanced Registration
  period.
• You can access the system as many times as you
  wish until you reach 15 hours, thereafter you can
  only register/adjust after 5 p.m. and on weekends
  during the advance registration period.

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The ISIS Registration System

• Schedule adjustment begins after the Advanced
  Registration period ends.
• After all students (all UF) registration start
  times have passed the system is open to all
  students for schedule adjustments.
• At this time, you may access the system as many
  times as you wish until the first day of classes.
• You must be registered for classes by 5pm before
  the first day of classes or you will be assigned
  a 100 late registration fee.

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The ISIS Registration System

• Drop/Add begins the first day of the semester and
  typically ends at 1159pm on the 5th day of the
  semester (2nd day for summer). For the most
  accurate dates for drop/add, please refer to the
  Academic Calendar on the Student Affairs website.
• This is the time to make final schedule
  adjustments.
• Lots of scheduling shifting occurs during this
  period which often enables students to get seats
  in classes that were formerly closed.
• You will not be able to make any schedule
  adjustments after the last day of drop/add.

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The ISIS Registration System

• ISIS will access an interactive updated version
  of the Schedule of Courses with seat
  availability.
• However, you should refer to the Course Schedules
  that are posted on the law schools course
  schedule website, http//www.law.ufl.edu/students/
  course_schedules.shtml, when planning your class
  schedule. This website will provide additional
  important information about classes that is not
  available in the ISIS system.

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The ISIS Registration System
The registration link will be in the My Online
Services menu underneath the Register Now section.
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ISIS will verify your identity by asking for your
GatorLink username and password.
The ISIS Registration System
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The ISIS Registration System

• Registration Page
• Personal Information
• Your Schedule
• Search Options
• You will use this page to register and adjust
  your schedule.

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The ISIS Registration System
Your Schedule displays the courses you are
currently registered for.
Allows you to View your Weekly Planner Schedule.
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The ISIS Registration System

• Most Common Search Options
• Search All Courses
• Add a Section
• These will help you find an open seat in a given
  course.

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The ISIS Registration System
Add a Section If you know exactly which course
section you want to take, use the Add Course
function.
Enter the section number and the number of
credits. Then click the Add this Course button.

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The ISIS Registration System
ISIS will summarize your requested action. ISIS
will then ask you to confirm that action. To
confirm, just type in your password and youre
done!
If you decide not to add the course, just click
on the Cancel button.
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The ISIS Registration System
ISIS will confirm if the course was added or
dropped.
The section will also appear or disappear from
your schedule.
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The ISIS Registration System
If the section you want is already full, you can
Search All Courses to find an open section.
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The ISIS Registration System
If you would like to drop a section, click the
Drop Button in your schedule next to the section
number.
You will confirm your Drop with your GatorLink
Password exactly as you did when Adding a Course.
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Potential Problems

• Registration Holds
• All Registration Holds list the specific details
  of the hold including the office to contact to
  address the hold.
• Section Closed
• If there are no available seats in a given
  section, it will display the message Section is
  closed when you attempt to add.
• Unable to add a course due to credit
• hour limitations

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Potential Problems

• Prerequisite Issues
• Departments have the right to restrict enrollment
  of courses/sections with prerequisites.
• Departmentally Controlled
• Sections for which the student must have the
  departments permission to register.

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Solutions

• If you have a Registration Hold, please follow
  the instructions in the hold to address the
  issue.
• If you have a problem registering due to
  prerequisites, departmental control or closed
  sections, contact the department offering the
  course directly.
• If you have a problem registering due to credit
  hour limitations, you may need to complete an
  overload petition to take more than 16 credit
  hours. 17 credit hours is the absolute maximum
  number a student may take in a Fall/Spring term.
  8 hours is the maximum during the summer term.

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Additional Registration Questions Problems

• Contact the Office of Student Affairs in
• 164 Holland Hall
• 352-273-0620

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Academic Programs/Policies

• JD Curriculum
• Degree Requirements
• Course Requirements
• Seminars/Advanced or Elective Courses
• Advanced Writing Requirement
• Independent Study
• Co-curricular Activities
• Skills Training/Clinics
• Externships

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Academic Programs/Policies

• Degree Requirements
• Completion of a minimum of 88 credit hours that
  include
• Required courses
• Completion of the advanced writing requirement
• Completion of advanced courses/electives

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Academic Programs/Policies

• Required Course Progression
• First Year Required Courses
• Contracts 5000 4
• Criminal Law 5100 3
• Torts 5700 4
• Legal Research and Writing 5792 2
• Professional Responsibility 6750 3
• Civil Procedure 5301 4
• Constitutional Law 5501 4
• Property 5400 4
• Appellate Advocacy 5793 2
• Second Year Required Course
• Legal Drafting 6955 2

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Academic Programs/Policies

• Advanced Writing Requirement
• Each student must satisfy the advanced writing
  requirement in order to graduate from the College
  of Law. A student may do so through the
  completion of a seminar course (LAW 6936) or
  through the completion of an Independent
  ResearchAdvanced Writing Requirement course for
  1 or 2 credit hours. All seminars shall afford
  enrolled students the opportunity to satisfy the
  Advanced Writing Requirement that is a condition
  to graduation from the College of Law.

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Academic Programs/Policies

• Advanced Writing Requirement
• the research standard for certification of the
  advanced writing requirement shall be, a major,
  finished, written product which shows evidence of
  original systematic scholarship based on
  individual research under close faculty
  supervision.

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Academic Programs/Policies

• REGISTRATION PRIORITY
• Registration-priority courses. These courses
  are not
• required, but the faculty recommends them for the
• designated term. Registration for these courses
  will
• be allowed in the term of priority. Registration
  in
• any other term is subject to space availability
  after
• Advance Registration.
• Note Certificate program students have
  registration
• priority for some classes.

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Academic Programs/Policies

• SECOND AND THIRD YEARS
• Second Year Registration Priority
• Estates and Trusts 3
• Evidence 4
• Corporations 3
• Unincorporated Business Enterprises 3
• Interviewing Counseling and Negotiation 3
• Third Year Registration Priority
• Trial Practice 6363 4

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Independent Study

• An Independent Study is designed to be an
  independent research project under the
  supervision of a faculty member who has a special
  interest in the area. The student must obtain the
  consent of the faculty member and agreement on
  the number of credits to be awarded prior to
  registering for the course. The project must
  include per credit reading and writing components
  at least commensurate with those of a law school
  seminar, and shall be graded in accordance with
  general law school standards. Independent studies
  cannot be used to fulfill the seminar
  requirement.
• Students may complete a maximum of 4 credit
  hours of Independent Study during their law
  school career 2 hours maximum per semester.
• Completed Independent Study Forms can be found on
  the Student Affairs website and should be
  returned to the Office of Student Affairs.

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Graduate Course Option

• Students may take courses specified in the
  Graduate Course Option only if the student,
  through the exercise of due diligence, cannot
  take a course containing substantially the same
  subject matter at the College of Law. With
  advance approval, students may enroll in up to
  two courses in the UF Graduate School and/or UF
  undergraduate foreign language programs for up to
  six credits toward law school graduation.
  Although the grade is not computed in a student's
  grade point average, a "B" or higher must be
  earned to receive credit. Students on academic
  probation are not eligible for the option.
  Students enrolled in the Joint Degree Program are
  not eligible for this option. (Transfer or
  transient students who have received more than 23
  credit hours for work at their previous law
  school may not be eligible for the option and
  should contact the Assistant Dean for Student
  Affairs.)

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Academic Programs/Policies

• Certificate Programs
• Criminal Justice
• Environmental and Land Use Law
• Estates and Trusts Practice
• Family Law
• Intellectual Property Law
• International and Comparative Law
• For specific information pertaining to each
  program, please access the College of Law
  website
• http//www.law.ufl.edu/programs/
• NOTE It is important to start planning if you
  determine you would like to obtain a certificate
  in Environmental and Land Use Law because this
  program requires completion of 8 credit hours
  above the 88 needed for the JD

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Academic Programs/Policies

• Skills Training/Clinics
• The Levin College of Law faculty-supervised,
  advice/representation clinics integrate the
  colleges nationally-ranked scholarship with
  applied lawyering and problem-solving skills
  developed through simulation courses and by legal
  services provided in a fully-operational legal
  aid clinic. As a proven method of teaching law,
  clinical scholarship places case book theory
  within the context of counseling and representing
  real clients working towards resolution of real
  legal problems. Moreover, clinical interns
  contribute to a societal need by representing
  indigent clients within the local community.

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Academic Programs/Policies

• Skills Training/Clinics
• Full Representation Clinic
• Gator TeamChild/Juvenile Law Clinic
• Family Law Pro Se/Unbundling Clinic
• County Court Mediation Clinic
• IPVAC Clinic
• Prosecution Clinic/Defense Criminal Clinic
• Conservation Clinic
• For additional information please see the Clinic
  website on the College of Laws website
  http//www.law.ufl.edu/centers/clinics.shtml

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Academic Programs/Policies

• Skills Training/Clinics
• All Clinics except Mediation Clinic require
  intern certification by the Florida Supreme Court
  (CLI). Clinic staff will assist you in preparing
  your application for certification and must
  submit all paperwork to the Florida Supreme Court
  at least a month prior to the first day of the
  Clinics requiring CLI.
• NOTE The CLI application requires a Florida
  Board of Bar Examiners Clearance Letter which
  MUST accompany your certification paperwork. If
  you have not received the letter already, you
  must register for CLI Registrant Status with the
  FBBE (Student Registration provides both CLI
  Clearance and pursues bar admission) or complete
  your Florida Bar application early enough to
  receive the FBBE background clearance letter in
  time for your CLI application. NOTE Interns in
  the two-semester clinics need this letter one
  month prior to the second semester of the clinic.
• The CLI background check takes approx. 3-6 months
  to produce the mandatory FBBE clearance letter,
  which you must provide to us no later than 4
  weeks prior to the start of your practice clinic.

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Academic Programs/Policies

• Co-curricular Activities
• Trial Team
• Moot Court
• Law Review
• Journals

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Academic Programs/Policies

• Externships
• The Levin College of Laws Externship Program
  offers a real world experience not found in the
  classroom and exposes students to a variety of
  opportunities in the legal profession, while they
  earn academic credit. Placements are available at
  government agencies in judges chambers and
  with nonprofit legal institutions.
• Externships help students develop the practical
  skills, poise and confidence necessary to be
  effective practitioners in the courtroom and the
  law office, and expose them to particular areas
  of interest. Externships also provide insight
  into professional responsibility and the
  operation of the legal system. Additionally, the
  externship experience enhances the legal resume,
  and provides important networking opportunities
• Students may earn a maximum of 6 externship
  credits during their law school career.

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Academic Programs/Policies

• Degree Audits
• Students are responsible for tracking their
  academic progression towards the JD degree.
  Requirements for the degree can be found in
  online or in your student handbook received at
  Orientation. The ISIS student records system
  allows students to track their progression using
  the University's online degree audit program. 
  The degree audit will show credits earned,
  requirements met, requirements outstanding, etc. 
  The degree audit also contains your official law
  school GPA used for official and unofficial
  rankings.
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Academic Programs/Policies

• How To View Your Degree Audit
• Log in to ISIS
• Click on Degree Audit on the left-hand menu to
  reveal links below.
• Click on the Degree Audit link.
• Log on by entering your GatorLink username and
  password. If you need assistance with your
  username and/or password you may call
  352-392-HELP.
• Under Degree Audits, click on View Complete
  Degree Audit.

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Academic Programs/Policies

• How To Read Your Degree Audit
• The first section lists all required law courses.
  A plus sign () or check mark indicates the
  requirement has been met or is in progress. A
  minus sign (-) or X indicates the requirement
  still needs to be met for the degree. A minus
  sign (-) noted next to the Advanced Writing
  Requirement will remain until the semester is
  completed and satisfaction of the requirement is
  certified by the professor.
• The next section lists all elective law courses.
• The next section lists all credits transferred in
  from another law school.
• The next section lists all credit hours earned
  and in progress (up to 88) that will count
  towards the JD degree. This must total 88 in
  order for you to graduate (less for combined
  degree students). Note The GPA listed here is
  not your official law school GPA because it may
  include non-law courses.
• The last section is your official law school GPA.
  This GPA is cumulative and reflective of UF law
  courses only. This is the GPA that is used to
  determine class rankings.

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Academic Advising Questions

• Contact the Office of Student Affairs
• Contact a specific professor whose expertise is
  in a particular area. You may find a listing of
  professors on the College of Law website under
  Faculty and Staff. Here, you will find
  information regarding their interests and
  expertise.

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Additional Questions Regarding Academic Policies

• Contact the Office of Student Affairs in
• 164 Holland Hall
• 352-273-0620
• Students may also access the student handbook
  online at
• http//www.law.ufl.edu/students/policies.shtml