Program Requirements
Required Courses
The minor in legal studies requires the completion of six courses (18 graded units) with a C or higher, at least three of which (9 units) must be upper-division (3000- or 4000-level) courses. Two of the six courses may be drawn from the student's major, but as in all College of Arts & Sciences programs, they cannot be double-counted (i.e., applied to both the major and the minor).
The six courses also must be distributed across at least three of four thematic subject areas:
- Theme I: Legal Reasoning, Theory, and Methods
- Theme II: Law and Culture in Historical Perspective
- Theme III: Legal Institutions and Social Practices
- Theme IV: Justice, Ethics, and the Law
Below is a list of courses that can count toward each of the thematic subject areas.
Theme I: Legal Reasoning, Theory, and Methods
Theme II: Law and Culture in Historical Perspective
Course List
| Code |
Title |
Units |
| AFAS 1114 | First Year Seminar: African-American Women's History: Sexuality, Violence and the Love of Hip Hop | 3 |
| AFAS 4465 | Black Life and the Law | 3 |
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| BEYOND 1008 | Beyond Boundaries: Religious Freedom in America | 3 |
| COMPLITTHT 2108 | Early Political Thought: Text & Traditions | 3 |
| COMPLITTHT 2109 | Modern Political Thought: Text & Traditions | 3 |
| COMPLITTHT 3081 | The Intellectual History of the Law | 3 |
| ECON 3640 | American Economic History | 3 |
| ELIT 2201 | Sophomore Seminar | 3 |
| GLOBAL 3866 | Interrogating Crime and Punishment | 3 |
| HISTORY 2124 | Sophomore Seminar: Slavery and Memory in American Popular Culture | 3 |
| HISTORY 2190 | The Theory and Practice of Justice: The American Historical Experience | 3 |
| HISTORY 3147 | The Wheels of Commerce: From the Industrial Revolution to Global Capitalism | 3 |
| HISTORY 3158 | The Birth Crisis of Democracy: The New United States of America, 1776-1850 | 3 |
| HISTORY 3234 | Women and Crime in the Evolution of American History | 3 |
| HISTORY 3249 | America in the Age of Inequality: The Gilded Age & the Progressive Era, 1877-1919 | 3 |
| HISTORY 4158 | Topics in American History: Race and Drugs in American History | 3 |
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| JIMES 3460 | Islamic Law | 3 |
| PHIL 3160 | Classical Ethical Theories | 3 |
| POLSCI 3027 | Civil Rights | 3 |
Theme III: Legal Institutions and Social Practices
Theme IV: Justice, Ethics, and the Law
Course List
| Code |
Title |
Units |
| ENST 3540 | Environmental Justice | 3 |
| PHIL 2060 | Biomedical Ethics | 3 |
| PHIL 2080 | Introduction to Environmental Ethics | 3 |
| PHIL 2201 | Disagreement, Extremism, and Polarization | 3 |
| PHIL 3200 | Social and Political Philosophy | 3 |
| PHIL 4321 | Advanced Social and Political Philosophy | 3 |
| POLSCI 3313 | Theories of Social Justice | 3 |
| POLSCI 3391 | History of Political Thought I: Justice, Virtue, and the Soul | 3 |
| POLSCI 3392 | History of Political Thought II: Legitimacy, Equality, and the Social Contract | 3 |
| POLSCI 3930 | History of Political Thought III: Liberty, Democracy, and Revolution | 3 |
| POLSCI 4218 | Gender and the Future of Work | 3 |
| POLSCI 4306 | Global Justice | 3 |
| WGSS 4200 | Feminist Political Theory | 3 |
For more details, please visit the Legal Studies Minor page of the Comparative Literature and Thought website or consult the Director of Legal Studies; courses can change by semester, new courses may be added, and some may be removed.