Seminar in selected legal problelms, as designated by the faculty.

Seminar in selected legal problelms, as designated by the faculty.

Seminar in selected legal problelms, as designated by the faculty.

This course provides the extern with an introduction to the practice of in-house counsel for a local government. The Law Department of the Urban County Government acts as counsel for the Mayor, the Urban County Council, and for all of the Urban County Government's Departments and Divisions. The department drafts all legislation (ordinances and resolutions) and handles a majority of the Urban County Government's litigation.

This externship develops students' interviewing, counseling, legal research and litigation skills under the supervision of the attorneys in the Fayette County Attorney's Office. Students will be expected to do legal research and writing, contact and interview witnesses, attend court sessions and assist the prosecutors therein, and assist in maintaining electronic case files. Students will support their supervising attorney in all areas related to the representation.

The course will examine the characteristics of governmental and nonprofit accounting emphasizing the various fund types and account groups, review and evaluation of presently recommended accounting and financial reporting procedures (GAAP) and an exploration of practical governmental and nonprofit accounting practices and methods. The course will introduce students to public financial accounting concepts and how to apply governmental (fund) and not-for-profit accounting theory to accounting and reporting for state and local governments and other non- profit institutions.

This course focuses on components of the governmental audit process unique to the public sector. Students will gain an understanding of the Government Auditing Standards (GAGAS), types of audits, the role of audit objectives and audit evidence, the fundamentals of interviewing, the preparation of audit working papers, as well as how to interpret audit findings and elements based on qualitative and quantitative evidence and communicate those findings to non-financial audiences.

Instruction and practice with popular audience genres and arguments in and about science, intended for both science and non-science majors. This course is a Graduation Composition and Communication Requirement (GCCR) course in certain programs, and hence is not likely to be eligible for automatic transfer credit to UK.

Instruction and practice with the major genres and argumentative structures of writing in the natural sciences. Special emphasis on and practice with the written norms that shape disciplinary knowledge in the natural sciences.

This course provides an overview of the impact of alcohol, tobacco, and other drug use disorders on individuals and populations from the local, state, national and international perspectives. Topics include methods for measuring the impact of substance use disorders, risk and protective factors, prevention strategies and policies, "harm reduction", and the relationship between substance use disorders and crime.