Legal Studies Courses Offered Spring 2010

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Gateway Courses
Legal St/Soc 131: Criminal Justice in America
Legal St/Poli Sci 217: Law, Politics, and Society

Methods Courses (Statistics and Research Design)
General Business 303: Business Statistics
Economics 310: Statistics: Measurement in Economics
Psychology 210: Basic Stats for Psychology
Sociology 360: Statistics for Sociologists

Psychology 225: Experimental Psychology
Sociology 357: Methods of Sociological Inquiry

Theme Group 1: Legal Institutions
Amer Ind 450, Sec. 013: Federal Indian Law (Honors)
Political Sci 104: Intro to Amer Nat’l Government
*Political Sci 106: Intro to Comparative Politics
**Political Sci 186: Intro to Comparative Politics (Honors)
*Political Sci 316: Principles of International Law
Political Sci 412: Constitutional Law II

Theme Group 2: Process of Legal Order & Disorder
General Business 301: Business Law
Legal St/Soc 131: Criminal Justice in America (NOTE: This course counts within this theme only for students who have also taken Legal St/Political Sci 217)
Psych 311, Sec. 002: Topic: Inside the Criminal Mind
Psych 411, Sec. 005: Legal Psych: Criminal & Civil Issues (prereqs)
Psych 411, Sec. 008: Psych Juvenile Delinquency (prereqs)
Psych 509: Abnormal Psychology
Risk Mangmnt & Ins 300: Principles of Risk Mangmnt
Risk Mangmnt & Ins 615: Liability Risk Mangmnt (prereqs)
Sociology 441: Criminology

Theme Group 3: Law & Social Structure
Econ 522: Law & Economics
General Business 302: Business Organizations and Negotiable Instruments
(prereq: Gen Bus 301)
*Legal St 400, Sec. 010: Human Rights, Politics, and Society
Legal St 444: Law in Action
Poli Sci 452: Criminal Law and Justice
Sociology 134: Amer Racial and Ethnic Minorities
Sociology 220: Ethnic Movement in the U.S.
Gender & Wom St 102: Women, Social Inst & Social Change

Theme Group 4: Law & Culture
Anthro 490, Sec. 003: Anthropology of Law (prereqs;Anthro majors only)
*East Asian St 301, Sec. 001: Murder, Mayhem, Modernity: E. Asian Crime Fiction
*Jewish St 328: Classical Rabbinical Lit in Transation (prereq)
*Legal St 450, Sec. 016: Comparative Religious Law (meets with LCA/ Relig St 620)
*Lit Trans 324, Sec. 001: Scan Lit— Criminal Utopias (meets w/ Scand St 436, Sec 001)
*History 600, Sec. 012: Law & Religion in the Medieval World
Poli Sci 695, Sec 002: Criminal Law & Jurisprudence

Theme Group 5: Law & Theory
*Legal St 459: Rule of Law (meets with Hist 459)
*Jewish St 442 Moral Philosophy and the Holocaust (crosslisted with Phil)
Journalism 675, Sec 001: Govt & Mass Media: Relationship Between
Media Law and Media Ethics
Med Hist 559, Sec. 003: Topics-Ethics & Hist of Med Health, Disability & Social Justice
Philosophy 241: Introductory Ethics
Philosophy 341: Contemporary Moral Issues
Philosophy 441: Environmental Ethics (crosslisted with Enviro St)
Philosophy 565: Ethics of Modern Biotechnology (crosslisted with Med Hist & Bioethics)
Poli Sci 530: Ethics and Values in Policy Making

Capstone
Soc 641: Sociology of Law

*At least one course in the major must have substantial content dealing with countries or cultures other than the United States. An asterisk in the list of courses above designates courses meeting this requirement.

 

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