Legal Studies Program

Structure of the Concentration

1. With the assistance of a legal studies advisor from the legal studies steering committee, students will select six courses from those approved by the legal studies steering committee for their concentration in legal studies. Normally no more than two courses under the 400 level may be selected from any single department. It is vital to consult with an advisor affiliated with legal studies since the program offers a variety of special topics courses that count toward the concentration.
2. One of the six required courses may be an internship related to the field of legal studies. This internship must be selected in consultation with the director or under the supervision of one of the affiliated faculty. Students must register for the internship through the department of the faculty member who supervises the internship.

Affiliated Courses

• AMST 231 - Sovereignty Matters: Critical Indigeneity, Gender and Governance 
• AMST 251 - Race and the Law   
• AMST 301 - Critical Prison Studies  
• ENGL 202 - Great Detectives and Plots of Detection   
• ENGL 265 - Literature and Human Rights  
• ENGL 310 - Shakespeare Studies 
• HIST 137 - From Confederation to Confederacy: US History from Independence to the Civil War  
• HIST 209 - Civil Rights in the United States  
• HIST 225 - Native History to 1871  
• HIST 226 - American Indian History since 1871  
• HIST 228 - The Law, Economy, and Family in the Anglo-American Tradition  
• HIST 235 - Captives, Cannibals, and Capitalists in the Early Modern Atlantic World  
• HIST 271 - Uses and Abuses: Drugs, Addiction and Recovery  
• INTD 202 - Intellectual Property  
• INTL 114 - Introduction to International Studies: International Codes of Conduct  
• PHIL 121 - Introduction to Ethics  
• PHIL 220 - Bioethics  
• PHIL 224 - Philosophy of Law  
• PHIL 225 - Digital Ethics  
• PHIL 321 - Contemporary Social and Political Philosophy  
• POLI 206 - US Constitutional Law and Thought  
• POLI 207 - US Civil Rights and Civil Liberties  
• POLI 212 - Litigation and Public Policy in the U.S.  
• POLI 301 - Law, Economy, and Identity  
• PSYC 377 - Moral Psychology  
• RUSS 270 - Wrongdoing in Russian Literature  
• SOCI 190 - Criminal Behavior/Social Control  
• SOCI 248 - Struggles for Reproductive Justice: A Global Perspective  
• SOCI 280 - Indigenous Peoples’ Movements in Global Context  
• SOCI 310 - Law and Society  
• SOCI 370 - Political Sociology  
• WGSS 355 - Abolition Feminism: Race, Gender, Sexuality and Critical Prison Studies