The Minor
Maybe you're interested in law, but don't have the time or the room in your schedule to major in Legal Studies. Then the Legal Studies Minor is for you! The purpose of the minor is to allow students to develop a greater understanding of the impact of law and legal institutions on society and public policy. Students study the sources and evolution of law, the legal process, and how law functions in a complex social, political, and economic system.
You will need to take six courses to complete the minor. Many students find that some of the courses are already required in their current major. Those courses still count for the minor.
Here’s what you have to do to complete the minor:
1. First register for the minor.
2. Next, take the two introductory law courses: "The Legal Environment of Business, I" and "The Legal Environment of Business, II."These courses are offered every semester.
3. Then choose two Applied Law Electives from the list below:
- Environmental Law and Policy
- International Business Law
- Real Estate Law
- Independent Study I & II
- Criminal Law
- Legal and Ethical Issues in Health Policy (3)
- Labor Relations in Sport (3)
- Electronic Commerce: Legal and Ethical Issues (3)
4. Finally, you will need to take 2 courses from the SPEC Electives. These are the Social, Political, Ethical and Cultural electives from across campus.
- Seminar in Legal and Ethical Issues in Sport (3)
- Government and Media (3)
- Sustainable Politics (3)
- Introduction to International Relations (3)
- Power: Race, Sex, and Class (3)
- Ideas and Ideologies (3)
- Legislative Behavior (3)
- International Conflict (3)
- U.S. Political Thought (3)
- Liberalism and Marxism (3)
- Feminist Theory (3)
- Theory and Politics of Public Policy (3)
- Law and Public Policy (3)
- The Politics of Health (3)
- Environmental Politics (3)
- Selected Topics in Public Policy (3)
- Reasoning (3)
- Introduction to Logic (3)
- Problem of Evil (3)
- Freedom, Authority, and Responsibility (3)
- Political Philosophy (3)
- Environmental Ethics
- Philosophy of Public Safety
- Moral Philosophy (3)
- Selected Topics in Philosophy (3)
- Philosophy Seminar (3)
- Juvenile Delinquency (3)
- Race and Ethnicity (3)
- Social Change (3)
- Sexual Oppression (3)
- Definitions of Normality (3)
- Introduction to Contemporary Mental Health (3)
- Individual and Society (3)
- Introduction to Social Institutions (3)
- Sociology of Crime (3)
- Global Race and Ethnic Relations (3)
- Social Policy (3)
- Civil Rights and Social Movements (3)
- Social Inequality (3)
- Political Sociology (3)
- Forms of Punishment (3)
- Family Violence (3)
- Sociology of Crime (3)
- Sociology of Violence (3)
- Race, Class and Gender (3)
- Seminar: The Police (3)
- Seminar: Treatment and Prevention of Family Violence (3)
- Seminar: Sociology of the Law (3)
- Seminar: Race, Racism, and the Law (3)
- Selected Topics in Criminal and Juvenile Justice Studies (3)
- Independent Studies in Criminal and Juvenile Justice Studies (3)
- Internship in Criminal and Juvenile Justice (3)
- Tutorial in Criminal and Juvenile Justice Studies (3)
