NOTE: Requirements may differ according to date of enrollment.
I. Core Requirement (6 credit hours)
POLI 276 Law and Society
POLI 277 Introduction to Law
II. Legal Foundations (9 credit hours from)
PHIL 362 Philosophy of Law
or PHIL 364 Justice, Law and Economics
POLI 370 Constitutional Law*
POLI 371 Civil Rights and Liberties*
POLI 383 Courts and Social Policy*
SOC 361 Law in the World*
III. Law and the Legal System (3 credit hours from)
ACCT 311 Business Law
ACCT 312 Business Law II*
BUAD 310 Legal Environment of Business
COMM 420 Communication Law and Ethics*
PHIL 303 Crime and Punishment
SOC 360 Criminal Justice System*
IV. Law and Philosophy (6 credit hours from)
PHIL 218 Introduction to Ethics
PHIL 265 Social and Political Philosophy
PHIL 310 Administative Ethics
PHIL 312 Current Moral Issues and Principles
HIST 375 History of Authority*
POLI 330 Western European Politics*
or POLI 331 Canadian Politics*
or POLI 332 Russian Politics*
POLI 360 Classical Political Theory*
POLI 361 Modern Political Theory*
V. Law and Human Behavior (6 credit hours from)
PSY 245 Social Psychology*
or SOC 204 Social Psychology*
PSY 356 Abnormal Psychology*
PSY 358 Psychology and the Law
SOC 310 Sociology of Deviant Behavior*
SOC 362 Criminology*
SOC 363 Victimology*
SOC 364 Juvenile Delinquency*
VI. Skill Requirements (9 credit hours from)
ECON 201 Principles of Macroeconomics
ECON 202 Principles of Microeconomics
PHIL 106 Critical Thinking
or PHIL 116 Introduction to Deductive Logic
or PHIL 301 Intermediate Deductive Logic*
POLI 200 Statistics
or SOC 200 Statistics for Sociologists
POLI 210 Research Methods
or SOC 300 Research Methods
VII. Legal Internship (Optional)
*prerequisite required
Students in other programs may enroll in the 21-credit hour Legal Studies Minor.
Most professions require effectiveness in writing and speaking. This is certainly true of the legal profession. Students are advised to choose courses which will help them develop these skills; e.g. COMM 105 for speaking and upper division courses as electives for writing.
Students should also acquire knowledge of standard computer software including word processing, spreadsheet and database programs. Familiarity with bibliographic and data search routines including the Internet and World Wide Web are strongly encouraged.