I just finished teaching Communication and Negotiation for the Paralegal Training Program of UCLA Extension. After the last class, a number of students stopped by to tell me how much they had enjoyed the course. One student said she felt it was perfectly placed in the sequence, being the last class they took before graduation. She said it helped her to see how various legal subjects fit together in a communications context. A different student told me she felt the course would have been more useful had it been the first one they took. That way, the students would have had better communications skills as they went through their cirriculum.
Either way, I’m pleased that they felt they gained some new skills from the course. I certainly enjoyed teaching it.
