Legal Studies Major

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Choose from the following approved electives:

• ACCT 200 - Survey of Accounting 3 credits
• AFRI 323 - African American History, 1890 to present 3 credits
• ENVI 303 - Aspects of Culture 3 credits
• BLAW 464 - Business Administration and the Law 3 credits
• BUS 201 - Principles of Accounting I 3 credits
• BUS 202 - Principles of Accounting II 3 credits
• BUS 263 - Legal Environment and Business 3 credits
• COMM 261 - Small-Group Communication 3 credits
• COMM 311 - Interpersonal Communication 3 credits
• COMM 416 - Cross-Cultural Communication 3 credits
• COMM 459 - Law and Responsibilities of Broadcast Communications 3 credits
• COMM 483 - Gender Communication 3 credits
• CRIM 280 - Law of Criminal Justice 3 credits
• CRIM 375 - Victimology 3 credits
• CRIM 385 - Introduction to Criminalistics 3 credits
• CRIM 420 - Criminal Law and Procedure I 3 credits
• CRIM 421 - Criminal Law and Procedure II 3 credits
• CRIM 432 - The Law on Evidence 3 credits
• ECON 321 - Money and Banking 3 credits
• ECON 331 - Public Finance 3 credits
• ECON 341 - International Economics 3 credits
• ENG 338 - Literature and Public Life 3 credits
• HIST 334 - African American History, 1890 to present 3 credits
• HIST 413 - Revolutionary America 3 credits
• HIST 414 - Antebellum America, 1815-1848 3 credits
• HIST 415 - The Gilded Age and Progressive Era, 1877-1917 3 credits
• HIST 417 - The United States in Crisis 1917-1945 3 credits
• HIST 418 - The United States’ Atomic Age, 1945 to the Present 3 credits
• HIST 423 - Constitutional History of the United States to 1877 3 credits
• HIST 424 - Constitutional History of the United States from 1877 3 credits
• HIST 439A-C - Women in History 3 credits
• IS 301 - World Problems Since 1945 3 credits
• PHIL 201 - Ethics and the Good Life 3 credits
• PHIL 325 - Philosophy of Law 3 credits
• SOC 302 - Work, Employment, and Society 3 credits
• SOC 322 - Social Conflict 3 credits
• SOC 424 - Sociology of Mental Health and Illness 3 credits
• SOC 443 - Gender Stratification 3 credits
• SOC 460 - Sociology of the Family 3 credits
• WS 200 - Introduction to Women’s Studies 3 credits
• WS 400 - Contemporary Feminist Theories 3 credits

Notes:

No more than two courses from a given area can count towards legal studies elective credit. Students should select their electives so that they supplement their core courses. Students may want to use these electives to build a curriculum that emphasizes a particular substantive area of the law (business, criminal, constitutional, or international), or students may want to select courses that refine and hone particular skills that will help them be successful in law school (accounting and philosophy). Students  may petition to have a course not recognized above count as an elective.

Courses in African and African American studies, business, communication, criminology and criminal justice, economics, English, history, international studies, journalism, philosophy, psychology, sociology, and women’s studies complement the legal studies curriculum. These areas are also ideal as second majors and/or as minors.