Required Courses

To earn the MSL in Health, students must complete 26 units, which include both required and elective courses. Students can enroll full-time or part-time, depending on their needs.

• Introduction to Legal Analysis – (online)
• Contracts – (online)

Elective Course Samplings

Students may customize their coursework by selecting electives that align with their career interests. These are the courses commonly taken by health law students:

• Mental Health & Policy – Explore the legal implications of mental health policies and their impact on healthcare providers and patients.
• Health Law – This course is an introduction to the U.S. healthcare system and public policies and laws that impact healthcare providers and consumers.
• Bioethics & Public Health – This course examines the developing area of Bioethics, considering legal topics such as assisted reproduction, wrongful conception/birth/life, and death and dying. The course also provides an introduction to legal issues emerging in the field of Public Health. The focus of the course varies from year to year depending on emerging medical/legal/ethical issues and also depending on whether the course is taught in the one, two, or three-unit format.
• Mediation – This course provides functional knowledge of the power and practice of mediation, which is increasingly being used to resolve both litigated and non-litigated disputes. Mediation employs a natural third party, the mediator, to help disputing parties make better decisions concerning whether and how to settle a dispute.

Please note that elective offerings may vary each year. Contact our office for the most up-to-date course schedule.