Learning Outcomes

The University of Tennessee College of Law has established five learning outcomes that describe the required knowledge, skills, and values that will be achieved by our graduates. In order to help our students achieve these learning outcomes, the faculty has adopted a rigorous curriculum that includes core first year courses, required professional responsibility and constitutional law courses, required first year and upper division courses that address bias, cross-cultural competence, and racism, and elective courses in which students must complete at least six credits of experiential coursework, an expository writing course, a planning and drafting course, and a perspectives course. Throughout the curriculum and in co-curricular activities, the faculty endeavors to help students develop their professional identities. In our Legal Clinic and other experiential courses, our students learn and utilize the knowledge, skills, and values essential to legal practice.