PLA 3723 LOGIC AND THE LAW 3 credits

Pre or corequisite: PLA 2114. Prerequisite: Admission to the Paralegal Studies BAS program. This course will introduce students to various forms of reasoning and informal fallacies. Subsequently, the course will conduct an in-depth study of deductive syllogistic logic and will conclude by introducing the quantification techniques of propositional and predicate logic (first-order symbolic logic). The course includes logic games and application of logical analytical principles to legal writing. 47 contact hours.