Legal Studies Minor

Requirements for the Minor

A minor in Legal Studies requires that the student complete six courses including at least one course in three of the five Breadth of Study tracks. A minor does not require a senior seminar or thesis.
The course requirements and examples of courses that satisfy those requirements are as follows:

Breadth of Study

1.  Legal Institutions

• GOVT120 CM Environmental Law and Policy  
• POLI033B PO American Constitutionalism II: Rights and Liberties 
• POLI143 SC Civil Liberties and Fundamental Rights  

2.  Law and Behavioral Sciences

• ECON155 PO Law and Economics 
• POST106 PZ Law and Politics 
• PSYC162 SC Psychology and the Law 
• PSYC169 SC Topics: Stereotyping and Prejudice 
• PSYC163 SC Social Psychology and the Legal System  

3.  Law and Social Order

• ANTH052 PZ Indigenous Societies: Histories of Encounters   
• GOVT181 CM Crime and Public Policy 
• HIST141 SC Working People in the Americas: Race, Labor, and Organizing 
• HIST176 AF Civil Rights Movement in the Modern Era 
• PHIL039 PO Gender, Crime and Punishment 
• POST156 PZ Critical Race Theory 
• POST159 PZ Crime and Punishment 
• SOC 121 PO Radicals, Revolutionaries and Terrorists 

4.  Legal Theory and Jurisprudence

• PHIL034 PO Philosophy of Law 
• PHIL162 SC Political Philosophy 
• PHIL169 SC Responsibility, Guilt, and the Person 
• POLI140 SC Introduction to Political Theory 
• POLI144 SC Legal Storytelling and the Rule of Law 

5.  Law and Culture

• ANTH055 PO Power, Politics and Culture  
• ENGL140 PO Literature of Incarceration 
• GRMT114 SC Plotting Crime  
• POLI141 SC Politics of Race and American Popular Film 
• SOC 051 PZ Cast, Class and Colonialism