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Course Descriptions

LEGL Minor Course Tracking Sheet

Minor Requirements

The Legal Studies minor requires students to take seven courses, spread across at least two colleges and three departments.  No more than two courses may come from the same department.  Students may not use a course from their major to fulfill a minor requirement.

The Legal Studies minor requires 21 credit hours:
Total 21 hrs.

College of Business

  • ECON B330 Law and Economics
  • INTB B310 Law for International Business*
  • LGST B200 Business Law
  • LGST B205 Legal Environment of Business
  • LGST B310 Law for International Business*
  

College of Humanities and Natural Sciences

Classical Studies 

  • CLHU A238 Justice in Greek Literature

History

  • HIST A230 Law in Early America
  • HIST A231 Law and Modern America
  • HIST A232 American Trials
  • HIST A305 Medieval Crime and Community
  • HIST A360 Punishment and Power in Modern Japan*

Japanese 

  • JPNS A360 Punishment and Power in Modern Japan*

Philosophy

  • PHIL A225 Philosophy of Law
  • PHIL W234 Medical Ethics
  • PHIL W235 Ethics of Rights
  • PHIL W244 Law and Morality

Psychology

  • PSYC A215 Psychology & the Law

Religious Studies

  • RELS A400 Theology of Vatican II
  • RELS V396 Law: Ancient World
  • RELS W228 Islamic Law
  • RELS W344 Social Policy and the Christian
  

College of Music and Fine Arts

Music Industry Studies

  • MUIN M201 Legal Issues I
  • MUIN M301 Legal Issues II
  

College of Social Sciences

Criminal Justice

  • CRJU C105 Introduction to Criminal Justice Systems
  • CRJU C110 Criminology: Fundamentals*
  • CRJU C220 Recent Supreme Court Decisions
  • CRJU C313 Criminal Evidence
  • CRJU C320 Violent Offenders
  • CRJU C330 Correctional Institutions*
  • CRJU C345 Seminar: Constitutional Law
  • CRJU C380 Ethics and Politics of Criminal Justice
  • CRJU C405 Criminal Law
  • CRJU C430 Legal Research and Writing

Mass Communication

  • CMMN A355 Covering the Courts
  • CMMN A401 Law of Mass Communication
  • CMMN A451 Media and American Courts

Political Science

  • POLS A212 The Legislative Process
  • POLS A218 Courts/Judges/Politics
  • POLS A300 Constitutional Law I
  • POLS A301 Constitutional Law II
  • POLS A340 Law Among Nations
  • POLS X262 Law / Politics / Gay Rights

Sociology

  • SOCI A215 Criminal Behavior
  • SOCI A216 Law & Social Control
  • SOCI A315 Delinquency and Justice
  • SOCI A333 Correctional Institutions*
  • SOCI X252 Violence in Society
  

* Indicates course has crosslisted course.

 Please check with the program director for additional course offerings and seminars that may be eligible for LGST program completion.