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Online Offerings Mean Flexibility for McKinney Law Students
03/13/2019
IU McKinney students may now take up to 30 credit hours toward their juris doctorate degrees online. Law school faculty gave their approval for the change, following the American Bar Association's move to double the number of online credit hours law students may take as part of their coursework. The move means that it's possible for JD students to pursue as much as an entire year of study online, subject to the availability of courses.
“We are proud to be a regional leader in online offerings in the JD program, complementing our recognized full-time and part-time JD programs and better fulfilling our mission of offering affordable, accessible, and inclusive legal study,” said Professor Max Huffman, Director of McKinney Law Online. “Our roster of courses is unparalleled in its quality and relies on the individual expertise of our teaching faculty, offering the same variety of pedagogy that our students enjoy in the classroom.”
Anywhere from three to five courses are taught in the online format per semester, including summer, totaling approximately 40 credit hours per year. Online courses at IU McKinney are created by law school faculty in partnership with professional course designers provided by Indiana University Online and the IUPUI Center for Teaching and Learning.
"I'm very proud of the work that Professor Huffman and my colleagues are doing to keep IU McKinney on the leading edge of online learning," said Dean Andrew R. Klein.
There is no change in the number of online credit hours that can apply toward the Master of Jurisprudence (M.J.) degree, or the Master of Laws (LL.M.) degree. M.J. students may earn 14 credit hours online as part of their degree, and LL.M. students may earn 11 credit hours online. In addition, IU McKinney welcomes visiting students to apply to take one or more courses either as non-degree students or as visitors seeking to transfer credits to their home institutions.
For more information on IU McKinney Law Online and its offerings, contact Professor Huffman huffmmax@iu.edu.
