Legal Studies Minor
The Legal Studies minor
is designed for students interested in studying law from multiple, complementary
scholarly perspectives and those recognizing that general training in law
assists our understanding of human affairs. The minor develops both
a substantive knowledge base and a set of skills useful to studying law
through cognate courses in a variety of disciplines including political
science, history, sociology, and psychology. The Legal Studies minor
is recommended for students preparing for law school and careers with a
salient legal aspect (politics, business, law enforcement, paralegal work).
The Legal Studies minor is
offered by the Department of Social Sciences and History, and it requires
students to select 15 credits from a group of elective courses, and 3 additional
credits from a set of skills and background courses. In order to
fulfill the Legal Studies minor, students must select no more than 6 credits
in their major discipline.
Elective courses (15
credits)
ACCT 2276 Business
and the Law
ACCT 2277 Advanced
Business Law
ANTH 2430 Anthropology
of Law
COMM 3223 Mass Communications
Law
HIST 3370 Origins
of European Law
HIST 3358 United States
Constitutional History
PHIL 1119 Legal Issues from
a Philosophical Perspective
POLS 2212 International
Law
POLS 2304 Sport Law
POLS 2307 Election
Law
POLS 3304 Criminal
Justice
POLS 3305 The Federal
Judicial Process
POLS 3306 American
Constitutional Law
POLS 3307 Civil Liberties
and Civil Rights
POLS 3308 Law and
Society
POLS 3327 Civil Rights and
Liberties
POLS 3498 The Practicum
in Politics
POLS 4500 The Constitution
in American Life
POLS 4800 Independent
Study in Political Science
POLS 3325 Jurisprudence
PSYC 3317 Psychology
and the Law
PSYC 3360 Forensic Psychology
SOCI 2306 Crime and
Criminology
SOCI 2318 Law and
the Family
SOCI 3304 Women and
Crime
SOCI 3330 Crime and
Inequality
SOCI 3333 Criminal
Law
SOCI 3336 Sociology
of Law
SOCI 3498 The Practicum
in Sociology
SOCI 4430 Law and
The Family
SOCI 4800 Independent
Study in Sociology
Skills and background
courses (3 credits)
ECON 1101 Microeconomics
ECON 1102 Macroeconomics
ENGW 3001 Advanced
Writing Workshop
MATH 1129 Introduction
to Statistics
MATH 1133 Applied
Statistics
PHIL1101 Introduction
to Logic
PHIL1102 Introduction
to Philosophy
PHIL 2205 Social and Political
Philosophy
POLS 2240 Political
Theory
POLS 2250 Political
Methodology
POLS 3309 Public Policy
Analysis
SOCI 2203 Methods
of Social Research
PSYC 2210 Psychological
Statistics
The suitability of additional
courses to substitute for these classes will be determined by the Legal
Studies minor Chair after consulting with the Chair of the Department of
Social Sciences and History.
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