The EWU student would need to be admitted to Gonzaga School of Law and then three courses (Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, and Criminal Law) from the first year curriculum of Gonzaga School of Law would count as equivalencies or substitutes for three disciplinary core classes- POLI 300 Judicial Process, POLI 335 US Congress, and POLI 332 US Presidency, for a total of 15 credits of equivalencies or substitutions.
The remainder of the first year courses from Gonzaga School of Law would count as equivalencies or substitutions for 30 credits of elective requirements towards the POLI Pre-Law degree. Those courses include: Torts, Contracts, Property, Legal Research & Writing I, Legal Research and Writing II, Litigation Skills & Professionalism Lab, Transactional Skills & Professionalism Lab.
The student would complete POLI 490 for 5 credits and POLI 493 for 2 credits in the summer after the first year of law school to complete the EWU POLI Pre-Law degree, or, the student could complete the ITGS 400 Online Capstone for 4 credits and POLI 493 for 2 credits which could be completed any time during the senior year, allowing the student to graduate with an EWU degree in Political Science with the Pre-Law option and continue as a second year law student at Gonzaga. 6 or 7 credits during or after the regular senior year at EWU.
Total of 82 credits- EWU degree earned