First Year Curriculum Reform and Integrated Legal Research and Writing (3Ls)

1. Are you in favor of integrating the 1L legal research and writing curriculum with a substantive 1L class in both the fall and spring semesters? Required Question

	Yes
	No
	No opinion

2. If yes, do you believe that a particular class is better suited for integration with the legal research and writing curriculum, or that a particular class is NOT suited? Please comment.

3. Of the three possible scenarios, rank the following in order of your preference:

1]	Status quo: legal research and writing is a separate class taught by a member of the legal research and writing staff and/or adjunct faculty.
2]	Substantive professors team up with legal research and writing staff and/or adjunct faculty to teach legal research and writing combined with a substantive course.
3]	Substantive professors alone integrate legal research and writing skills into their own substantive course.

4. Are you in favor of increasing the amount of legal research and writing instruction during the 1L year, while reducing the amount of substantive instruction? (This would have an effect on the credit loads for these respective courses.) Required Question

5. Would you prefer to have combined grading for an integrated class, or would you prefer a separate legal research and writing grade and a separate substantive grade? Required Question

	Combined grades
	Separate grades
	No opinion

6. Would you prefer to have a more diverse range of courses offered during your 1L year at the expense of having to take some traditional 1L courses during your 2L year? Required Question

	Yes
	No
	No opinion

7. In considering proposed changes to the curriculum, some goals may need to take priority over others. Rank the following goals in the order of your preference:

1]	Maintaining a small group class
2]	Integrating legal research and writing with substantive courses
3]	Balancing credit loads between the first and second semesters of the 1L year
4]	Offering a more diverse range of courses in the 1L year

8. How important is it to have a small group class during the 1L year? Required Question

9. How important is it to have the small group section together in all classes? Required Question

10. Rank your preference for the _first_ proposed curriculum included in the original e-mail. Required Question

11. Rank your preference for the _second_ proposed curriculum included in the original e-mail. Required Question

12. There has been a lot of debate among faculty and students about if and how to reform the 1L curriculum, including the legal research and writing instruction. If you have any ideas of how to improve the current proposals, or have any proposals of your own, please include them here, along with any other comments.

Strongly opposed	Opposed	No opinion	In favor	Strongly in favor

Not important	Little importance	No opinion	Important	Very important

Not important	Little importance	No opinion	Important	Very important

Strongly opposed	Opposed	No opinion	In favor	Strongly in favor

Strongly opposed	Opposed	No opinion	In favor	Strongly in favor