Why President The College
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 The development of students at President proceeds with the following assumptions in mind:
Research Legal research is a skill that will be developed in the Education 360 modules. It is an acquired skill that will be of much benefit to you when you practice. There is a dearth of information available today in the knowledge economy. The skill involved is to find the right information in the easiest and most accurate manner, then analyzing the information to be of use to the stipulated goal. Each of the following methods form the core of the skills you will develop with us.
ArguementDworkin argues that argument forms one of the most fundamental bases of the legal application. There are many strategies for argument and analysis that you will pick up with is including:
Foreign Culture
Foreign LanguagesAs part of the 360 skills development programme students are given language courses through the year. This is to enhance a students academic education as well as helping the student employ another language in cultural exchange, research and work. Students who satisfy the necessary requirements for the course will gain a transcript and certificate for their completion. These courses though are strictly value added and does not form part of their academic certification. Languages taught include:
Literature & ArtsThe common aim of the courses in these areas is to foster a critical understanding of artistic expression, and to exemplify the ways in which the humanities, like other fields of study, are an arena for scholarly examination and discussion. As is characteristic of the Core Curriculum as a whole, courses in Literature and Arts are intended to illustrate and analyze what constitutes knowledge in the various fields: its varieties, forms, scope, uses and abuses, and modes of interpretation. Literature and Arts courses will familiarize students with major works, major themes, or clusters of creative achievement in particular times and places. The treatment of these works will introduce the practice of critical analysis and the nature of scholarly argument in the humanities.Moral ReasoningThese courses discuss those significant and recurrent questions of choice and value that arise in human experience. Their purpose is to explore ways of making a reasoned moral or political choice. To that end, these courses seek to acquaint students with the important traditions of thought that have informed such choices in the past, and to enlarge the students' awareness of how people have understood the nature of the virtuous life. The courses are offered in the expectation that they will help students realize that it is possible to reflect reasonably about such matters as justice, obligation, citizenship, loyalty, courage, and personal responsibility. Courses on these matters will ordinarily be drawn from Western traditions of thought, but may also examine reasoning within non-Western traditions. The subject of Moral Reasoning is not meant to comprehend all or even most of what is taught under the rubrics of philosophy, jurisprudence, ethics, or religion, but only those parts of these disciplines that explain how individuals can and have come to grips reasonably with matters of moral choice and the nature of right action. Instruction chiefly devoted to the methods of philosophical analysis, the history of philosophical, political, or religious ideas, or surveys of religious and ethical traditionsQuantititive Reasoning The aim of courses in this area is to introduce students to mathematical and quantitative modes of thought. Some courses emphasize theoretical aspects of mathematics or statistical reasoning: a course on number theory or deductive logic, for example, would fall under this heading. Other courses in this area explore the application of quantitative methods to questions in the natural sciences, social sciences, or humanities: courses on making decisions under uncertainty, or on analyzing demographic trends are examples of such applications.Social AnalysisThe common aim of courses in Social Analysis is to familiarize students with some of the central approaches of the social sciences, and to do so in a way that gives students a sense of how those approaches can enhance their understanding of human behavior in the context of contemporary society. The courses offered to meet this part of the Core requirement will provide coherent theories or analytical approaches that are systematically related to empirical data. Social Analysis courses are not intended to survey a particular discipline, but rather to illustrate the applications of analytical methods to important problems involving the behavior of people and institutions.
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The goals common to all the courses in Foreign Cultures are to expand the student's understanding of the importance of cultural factors in shaping people's lives, and to provide fresh perspectives on the student's own cultural assumptions and traditions through study of a culture significantly different from that of the United States and the Anglophone cultures of the British Isles, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. Courses in this area may devote attention to religious and ethical values, to social, economic, and political systems, to intellectual trends, and to literary and artistic achievements, but always with a view to exploring the ways such aspects of a culture are linked to each other. Whether the primary emphasis is on the analysis of key texts and works of art, on historical change, or on other fundamental aspects of individual or social life, these courses will seek to identify the distinctive patterns of thought and action that account for the particular configuration or ethos of another culture.