Law
Stephens College offers excellent preparation
for students interested in a law career. The Association of American
Law Schools (AALS) recommends
that students who wish to enter law focus their preparation on advanced skills
in reading, writing and speaking; logical and analytical reasoning; and creative
thinking. An understanding of human institutions and values, especially those
affected by law, is also important. "Taking demanding courses with
the best teachers" can develop the mental capacity for exacting
work and study.
Stephens College offers a distinctive law-related major called Law, Philosophy
and Rhetoric (LPR). This major has been designed to focus on the formation of
key skills for successful careers in law and law-related fields and to allow
students to pursue study in a second major or one or two minors. LPR, in both
its assessment process and curriculum, promotes skills examined in the Law School
Admission Test, to enhance our majors law school admissions.
Medicine, Dentistry and
Veterinary Medicine
The Stephens College Department of Natural Sciences specifically
offers a dynamic pre-professional course of study for women. The professions
of medicine, dentistry and veterinary medicine require advanced study at a professional
school and require the following pre-professional course of study to be completed
by the spring semester of the year
in which admission is sought.
- English 101 and 102 (1c, 1c)
- Mathematics up to, but not including calculus (however, many professional schools require one full year of calculus) (1c–1.5c)
- College Chemistry I and II with Laboratory (1.5c, 1.5c)
- Organic Chemistry I and II with Laboratory (1.5c, 1.5c)
- Physics I and II with Laboratory (Algebra based) (1.5c, 1.5c)
- Investigations in Biological Concepts I and II (1.5c, 1.5c)
- 3.0 to 5.0 course credits in social science and/or humanistic studies
Some schools may require additional courses of study in biochemistry, nutrition, statistics or animal science. Students may wish to take these courses at Stephens College or at the University of Missouri–Columbia through the Mid-Missouri Associated Colleges & Universities (MMACU). Stephens College offers exciting and demanding courses to meet the pre-professional requirements taught by a talented, diversified and dynamic team of faculty who focus especially on women's education in the sciences.
