Legal Studies Minor
The legal studies minor requires at least five courses, one course from each of the five categories listed below. No more than three of these courses may be in a single department. Courses applied to the legal studies minor may not also be applied to a student’s major. One course credit earned off campus may be used to meet a requirement for this minor.
1. Case Law
| ACFM 201 | Business Law | 1 |
| IREL 255/POLS 278 | International Law | 1 |
| POLS 241 | Constitutional Law: Civil Rights | 1 |
| POLS 242 | Constitutional Law: Civil Liberties | 1 |
| RELI 279 | Judaism and Law | 1 |
| RELI 280/POLS 247 | Religion and Constitutional Law | 1 |
| RELI 321 | Introduction to Jewish Law | 1 |
2. Law & Social Science
| CBST 280 | Race, Violence & Incarceration | 1 |
| ECON 330 | Law and Economics | 1 |
| POLS 240 | The American Congress | 1 |
| POLS 244 | American Judicial Politics | 1 |
| POLS 375 | Analyzing Legislatures | 1 |
| SOCI 123 | Law and Society | 1 |
| SOCI 234 | Criminology | 1 |
| SOCI 239 | Deviance and Identity | 1 |
| SOCI 251 | Violence and Society | 1 |
| SOCI 309 | How Holocausts Happen | 1 |
| SOCI 341 | Seminar in Law and Society | 1 |
| WMST/SOCI 332 | Women and the Penal System | 1 |
3. Legal Theory
| CBST 271 | Politics of Anti-Blackness | 1 |
| ENLS 203 | Introduction to Race and Literature (Only sections titled "Race, Law, and American Literature") | 1 |
| PHIL 100 | Introduction to Philosophy (Only sections titled "Law, Morality, and Society") | 1 |
| PHIL 246 | Philosophy of Law | 1 |
| POLS 260 | Topics in Legal Thought | 1 |
| POLS 263 | Race and Ethnicity in American Legal Thought | 1 |
| POLS 362 | American Constitutional Theory | 1 |
4. Ethics
| ENST 255 | Environmental Injustice and Activism | 1 |
| PHIL 213 | Ethics | 1 |
| PHIL 214 | Social and Political Philosophy | 1 |
| PHIL 228 | Contemporary Ethical Theory | 1 |
| PHIL 274 | Bioethics | 1 |
| POLS 210 | Political Theory | 1 |
| POLS 256 | Topics in Social and Political Ethics | 1 |
| POLS 257 | Ethics and Public Policy | 1 |
| POLS 364 | Justice and Public Policy | 1 |
| RELI 100 | Introduction to Religion (Only sections titled "Introduction to Ethics") | 1 |
| RELI 220 | Comparative Ethics | 1 |
| RELI 226/ENST 236 | Environmental Ethics | 1 |
| RELI 227 | Bioethics: Issues in Ethics, Medicine, and the Life Sciences | 1 |
| RELI 229 | The Ethics of Consumption | 1 |
5. Philosophical Foundations of Law
| PHIL 246 | Philosophy of Law | 1 |
Highly motivated students may also satisfy this requirement with an appropriate independent study with any member of the faculty who teaches courses in categories 1 to 4. The student must submit a written proposal with the sponsoring faculty member’s endorsement to the legal studies coordinator. Registration for an independent study in legal studies uses the following course abbreviation.
IDPT 320 Interdepartmental Independent Studies
Faculty
Coordinator: Jeffrey S. Turner