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.
To prepare students for law school, Stephens College offers both a Minor in Legal Studies and a Three-Three J.D. Program, which provides high-caliber, highly motivated students the opportunity to earn a law degree (J.D.) in six years rather than the traditional seven years. The Three-Three J.D. Program permits qualified students to begin law school at the University of Missouri at Columbia after completion of three years of undergraduate courses at Stephens. After completing the first year of law school (full-time, 30 semester hours) in academic good standing (grade of 70 or above), the student earns a bachelor's from Stephens College.
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 Composition/Research requirement (6 hrs.)
- Mathematics up to, but not including calculus (however, many professional schools require one full year of calculus) (3-6 hrs.)
- College Chemistry I and II with Laboratory (4 hrs., 4 hrs.)
- Organic Chemistry I and II with Laboratory (4 hrs., 4 hrs.)
- Physics I and II with Laboratory (Algebra based) (4 hrs., 4 hrs.)
- Investigations in Biological Concepts I and II (4 hrs., 4 hrs.)
- 9-15 semester hours 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.
