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 following are examples of the kinds of courses that count under each breadth requirement but are not an exhaustive list. Please consult with Professor Groscup about courses that count twoard the major and minor if you have questions.

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