{"id":6572,"date":"2020-10-28T18:04:49","date_gmt":"2020-10-28T18:04:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/wordpress\/lavie\/?p=6572"},"modified":"2020-10-28T18:04:49","modified_gmt":"2020-10-28T18:04:49","slug":"university-of-london-program-available-to-lvc-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/2020\/10\/28\/university-of-london-program-available-to-lvc-students\/","title":{"rendered":"University of London program available to LVC students"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"dslc-theme-content\"><div id=\"dslc-theme-content-inner\">\n<p>By: Gabbie Witter &#8217;20, Staff Writer&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>LVC is opening registration to students interested\nin studying with the University of London law program.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The program was designed with the intention that it\nwould primarily serve those who would want to go on for a law degree, but it\nhas value to other students too.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cOne of the things that we face at LVC,\u00a0I\u00a0think,\u00a0is we\u2019re not that well known outside of the region,\u201d Dr.\u00a0Philip\u00a0Benesch, chair of social sciences, associate professor political science and director of pre-law and external scholarships and fellowships, said. \u201cSo\u00a0to have an internationally known\u00a0university as well, students\u00a0get a certificate\u00a0in addition to their degree at LVC, so\u00a0it&#8217;s\u00a0a way of enhancing the experience, enabling students to perhaps go on to graduate school in an area entirely unrelated to law.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These modules are equivalent&nbsp;to those taken by first-year law students in the UK.&nbsp;With successful completion of the four modules, students&nbsp;will be able to&nbsp;transfer a total of 24 credits back to LVC, accelerating completion of their&nbsp;undergraduates&nbsp;degree at a fraction of the cost.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThis is as close as we can get to a law school experience at the undergraduate level,\u201d Benesch said.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Through this new, accelerated program, successful\nstudents may earn a&nbsp;bachelor of arts&nbsp;or&nbsp;bachelor of\nscience&nbsp;degree from LVC and a University of London Certificate of Higher\nEducation in the Common Law.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe first group that came in in 2019 took their first exams in the summer of 2020,\u201d Benesch said. \u201cWe had a 100% pass rate.\u201d&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If students are interested in learning more about this program and how to register, contact Benesch at <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"mailto:benesch@lvc.edu\" target=\"_blank\">benesch@lvc.edu<\/a>&nbsp;  with any questions.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>By: Gabbie Witter &#8217;20, Staff Writer&nbsp; LVC is opening registration to students interested in studying with the University of London law program.&nbsp; The program was designed with the intention that it would primarily serve those <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/2020\/10\/28\/university-of-london-program-available-to-lvc-students\/\" title=\"University of London program available to LVC students\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":6328,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6572","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-campus-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6572\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}