Whether you're looking at the guides for self-study, or whether they're a complement to the courses
you're gong to be taking at the Toronto School of Management, the idea they're the guide
to highlight the most important information for your material and to identify what you
don't really need to know.
Because the truth is, there's so much information.
For example, foundation and constitutional law is together, usually the most Canadian
JD programs - it's one-year long course.
So I did my JD at Osgood, and the equivalent course was 1 year long, 2 terms.
And it covers most of the same material - all of the same material really.
So that's a lot of information.
A lot of reading, a lot of cases.
The guide is going to help you diffuse all that information, understand what the takeaway
points are, for the readings, cases and articles.
That will help you orient yourself when you're doing your own reading, which we do recommend
you do.
It's not a replacement for studying.
But this is going to direct you to what you should look at, what paragraph you should
focus on from different cases, and what perhaps maybe you don't really need to read into too
much detail because you really understand from the textbook not from the guide, and
maybe also direct you guys to go back and dig a little deeper into something that's
confusing to you.
The idea these guides will help direct students to the best information possible, so that
they can complete the exams without pulling their hair out and not so successfully passing
them.
Are the study guides inclusive of not only the NCA mandated textbooks but any sort of
articles that are also included in the NCA syllables?
Do you also lay out notes for those articles?
So the study guides will also cover textbooks, individual cases that are listed online.
As of the articles, we summarize all of that.
So we leave the optional readings for you to do yourself.
Because the idea of optional readings anyway is for if you're having trouble with something,
if you need more information, then the optional readings will provide that information to
you, So we have decided to not summarize those because that's something you can do on your
own if you like.
But the idea is with the required reading, the idea of all of the material you really
must know for the exam.
Study guides will also include tips and tricks, some practice exam questions, at least a couple
in the study guides topics that we think are relevant when they show up on the exam.
And also some articles are commentary, some articles are explanation, and they often provide
different view points on different issue.
And that is helpful to you.
So this article is from this perspective.
And if you're coming at this for the first time, you may not be fully aware of the different
perspectives that may surround the debate.
So we're going to help you identify those.
So that on an exam, if there's an essay question, and you have to argue two sides of the debate
or the policy, and come to your own conclusion, then you'll know from the guide, and from
our pointers - ok, so this is one view; this article represents another view.
And I can use these two, or these three articles and help prepare my answers for this kind
of question.