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May 16, 2024
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OAT 1430 - Legal Terminology
Study of the structure and usage of legal words and terms as related to legal assisting and paralegal studies. Emphasis on spelling and defining commonly used legal terminology including prefixes, suffixes, root words, plural forms, special endings, abbreviations, symbols, and their combining forms.
Credit Hours: 2
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 2.0 lecture
Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
Learning Outcomes: - Acquire a basic foundation in legal terminology that will lead to recognizing multiple legal terms.
- Be familiar with the principal fields of law and the judiciary system.
- Categorize legal terms as they are used by lawyers, judges, legislators and others in law to express legal analysis and legal rights and duties.
- Demonstrate an understanding of basic areas of law and legal professions, and correlate this understanding with legal terminology.
- Recognize that the meaning of complex legal terms can be derived by analysis of simpler components.
- State the meaning of common legal abbreviations and acronyms.
- Understand many terms related to legal and judicial procedures.
- Understand principal terms used in law.
- Understand the need for exactness (spelling and handwriting) in legal vocabulary and correspondence via dictation and transcription.
- Use a word-building system to write legal terms in singular and plural form.
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