STAFF ARTICLES
A New Transfer Opportunity!
By Erica Brown, Career and Transfer Coordinator
The American College of History and Legal Studies located in Salem, NH, will welcome its first class in Fall 2010. As the first history-focused school in the nation, ACHLS plans to offer a variety of quality classes to prepare students to become attorneys, lawmakers, and serve in public offices in addition to being qualified for education, business, and other professional fields. Their mission statement to students is, "ACHLS’s students will learn to continuously assess for themselves whether justice and wisdom were achieved according to the views of the time, by courts and laws of the time, and by modern lights."ACHLS will operate as a "completion college," which means that only the junior and senior years of college will be offered. The school encourages students to earn associate degrees or at least 60 credits before entry.
ACHLS's curriculum focuses exclusively on American history and legal history, with attention to U.S. history in the context of world history and to the history of important American legal subjects such as constitutional law and regulatory law. Classes are small (no more than 20 students) and instructors teach using a discussion method to encourage students "to continually participate...to learn to think well, write well, and speak well." ACHLS is approved by the New Hampshire Postsecondary Education Commission to issue B.A. degrees in history and law. The school expects to be accredited by the New England Association of Schools and Colleges in the next few years. The Massachusetts School of Law, with which the ACHLS is affiliated, is accredited by NEASC.
The school plans to teach courses such as: The History of Women's Rights; History of Sports in American Society; American Reform Movements; Race in American Law; and more. For more information about ACHLS, students can visit www.achls.org or contact Paula Colby-Clements. She can be reached by phone at 603-204-3919 or by email at colby@achls.org
ACHLS representatives will be visiting the Great Bay campus throughout the fall; check the college calendar for dates.
For more information contact Erica Brown at (603) 427-7624 or esbrown@ccsnh.edu
