Introducing the Hybrid Blended Evening Program
Beginning in Fall 2025, the law school’s part-time evening program will be a hybrid program, which offers evening students greater convenience and flexibility while maintaining academic rigor, a dynamic classroom experience, and the sense of community that come from in-person learning.
In this hybrid program, students (or “you”) will attend class in person just two evenings per week, typically between 6 and 9:30. The program will employ a mix of instructional modalities. Some courses will be traditional in-person courses. Others will be “blended,” combining one day of in-person instruction with online learning, including instructional videos, written assignments, and virtual “discussions” with classmates and faculty. The curriculum will be identical to our day program and will be taught by the same faculty members.
Here is an example of a typical first-semester schedule, for illustration purposes only. In this example, Civil Procedure I is a traditional, in-person course. Introduction to Lawyering Skills and Contracts are “blended” courses, in which one of the weekly class meetings is replaced with online activities that students complete on their own schedule.
Tuesday | Thursday |
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6:00-7:15: Civil Procedure I |
6:00-7:15: Civil Procedure I |
7:30-9:20: Intro. Lawyering Skills |
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7:30-9:20: Contracts |
The two-evening-per-week, in-person schedule empowers students to organize their coursework around professional and caregiving responsibilities. It also enhances access to law school for students who, due to limited mobility or other personal constraints, are unable to commute daily to campus.
While as many as 50 students may be enrolled in a fully in-person evening course, blended courses will be capped at 25 students. This small class size will facilitate robust engagement among students and faculty and will enable faculty to provide much more substantive, individualized feedback on students’ written work than is typically possible in a traditional in-person course.
Once students complete their required courses, they will have the opportunity to select more or fewer blended courses, depending on their preferences. Over the course of their eight semesters, students thus will be able to take as many as 50 percent or as few as 25 percent of their total J.D. credits online.