LEGAL STUDIES

Professor Todd Peppers, Coordinator

The concentration allows students to draw upon a variety of different perspectives regarding the nature of law, the role of law in society, and the law as a tool of social change.The concentration is designed to give students flexibility in selecting the classes that are most relevant to their future career plans.

Required (4):

CJUS/POLI 214 The Judicial Process
CJUS/POLI 213 Criminal Law or
BUAD 227 Business Law or
POLI 312 Civil Liberties
POLI 250 Public Policy
POLI 311 American Constitutional Law or
POLI 312 Civil Liberties

Electives (3):

CJUS 227 Law and Society
CJUS 325 Comparative Law Enforcement
CJUS/POLI 211 Criminal Justice
PHIL 122 Logic
POLI 214 or 311 or 312 or BUAD 227 (if not offered as a requirement above)
POLI 352 Human Rights Policy
PSYC 325 Social Psychology
SOCI 238 Juvenile Delinquency
SOCI 334 Criminology
CJUS/POLI/SOCI 261 - (special topics when appropriate and approved by the Public Affairs department)
POLI 395 or CJUS/POLI 401 or 406 or 416 or 495 (topics when appropriate and approved by the program coordinator);Any IL 277 or Honors 301 course whose topic is appropriate and approved by the program coordinator.

Any Intensive Learning or Honors course whose topic is appropriate and approved by the Public Affairs department.