COURSE IN LAW

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22916, 20 December 1937, Page 13

COURSE IN LAW

THE EXTRA SUBJECTS STUDENTS CONCERNED POSSIBILITY OF PETITION Concern is felt by some of the students taking the law course at Auckland University College at the extension of their course by the addition of several new subjects. It is suggested that the Senate of the University of Xew Zealand should have allowed students who have already started the course n longer period than two years in which to complete the examination, and that tho new conditions should npply only to those students who enrol for next year's session, tho first under tho new regulations. Changes Explained The dean of the faculty of law at tho college, Professor It. M. Algie, explained yesterday that by regulation, adopted by the Senate and sent formal d by tho Council of Legal Fducation, a group of additional subjects had been added to the course and the arrangement and classification of some of tho existing syllabus had been altered. The result would bo that candidates entering upon legal studies in 1938 would be required to add three arts subjects to tho previous course. Latin would remain compulsorj' and students would bo able to select tho additional arts subjects from English, philosophy, history, economics, political science, any modern foreign language, mathematics and a puro science. The Period of Grace This would broaden the cultural opportunities of the course. It also meant that the course would be extended by at least one year. Those students who commenced their law studies before 1938 "were being allowed two years in which to complete under the former regulations. It was commonly felt, however, among the law students affected that this period was too short and it was likely that a petition would be presented to the senate to ask for a louger period of grace. It was stated by students that the shortest possible time in which the 15 subjects at present required for the course could be completed was four years. Those who began their studies at the beginning of this year therefore had no chance of completing their examinations in the two years provided by the senate.