Legal Studies Minor
| This minor is designed to expose students who are interested in attending law school to a broad set of substantive topics and important analytic skills. Specifically it introduces students to substantive areas of the law; writing, philosophy & logic; data analysis; and the social sciences more broadly. Students are required to complete 18 credit hours to receive the Legal Studies Minor. | ||
| Required Courses | ||
| PHIL 2303 | GLB/US-Logic | 3 |
| Area I: Law (Select one of the following) | 3 | |
| Legal Environment of Business | ||
| Courts and Criminal Procedure | ||
| Criminal Justice, Law and the Courts | ||
| Constitutional Law | ||
| Civil Libs & Civil Rights | ||
| Law, Politics, and the Judicial Process | ||
| Area II: Philosophy (Select two of the following) | 6 | |
| GLB/The Quest for Order, Justice, and Community | ||
| GLB/Liberty, the State, and the Person | ||
| GLB/The Age of Ideology | ||
| GLB/US-History of Philosophy I | ||
| US-History of Philosophy II | ||
| US-General Ethics | ||
| Area III: Data Analysis (Select one of the following) | 3 | |
| Intro to Research Methods | ||
| Applied Data Analysis | ||
| Intro to Social Research | ||
| Intro to Math Statistics | ||
| Essentials of Statistics | ||
| Area IV: Social Sciences (Select one of the following) | 3 | |
| Advanced Criminological Theories | ||
| Institutional (jails, prisons) and Community Corrections | ||
| GLB/US-Prin Macro Economics | ||
| Economics of Personal Finance | ||
| Intro to Public Policy | ||
| Total Hours | 18 | |