RWA

Reason, Writing and Advocacy meets for an hour on Tuesday and Thursday mornings. It's one of two practical classes, which is to say we do written assignments throughout the semester. I like it. We meet in relatively small sections - there are seventeen students in mine - and get some kind of feedback from time to time. I don't know if I've mentioned this before, but most of the classes - the "substantive" classes, they're called - have no grades throughout the semester. The final exam determines one's grade for the entire class. The periodic deadlines and grades in RWA are a welcome relief from all that uncertainty. Besides, my undergraduate degree is in history, so I write reasonably well and tend to get good grades.
The writing assignments are along these lines: we'll get a short description of a fictional client's situation and a list of court decisions that dealt with similar circumstances. Based on that information, we write up a paper that analyzes the applicable law and predicts the outcome for our client should the case go to trial. It's kind of fun.