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Recommended Preparation: ENGL 101. In addition, students are expected to have a basic familiarity with computer terms, to be able to use applications such as word processing, spreadsheets, and email, and to do online research. These skills can be learned in CIS 100. This course covers theory, concept, and rules of civil procedures. It includes types of evidence, prima facie cases, rules governing witness testimony, federal and state court systems, procedures for the removal of state court actions for transfer to the federal court system, initiation of federal and state court actions, remedies available under law and equity, alternative dispute resolution methods, drafting and filing complaints, answers, counterclaims, pre-trial motions, and in-court trial procedures. It also provides an examination of the rules of civil evidence and the admissibility of evidence, depositions, interrogations, admissions, notices to produce, and related rules of discovery and evidence. (CSU)