Legal Studies Minor

Course Requirements

To complete a minor in legal studies, a student must complete the following course requirements with a Pass or a grade of a C or better:

Lower-Division Courses

One lower-division course.

LGST10Introduction to Legal Process

5

Upper-Division Courses

Any five upper-division electives may be used to complete the minor.

The following courses are offered by the Legal Studies (LGST) Program or are crosslisted with LGST by another department. Enrollment in either rubric will count toward the legal studies major requirements. 

ANTH110C
/LGST 112
California Pasts

5

LGST100
/POLI 100
Law and Politics of Memory

5

POLI102Doing Research

5

LGST108Gender, Sexuality, and Law

5

LGST109Legal Theory

5

LGST111B
/POLI 111B
Civil Liberties

5

LGST111CIssues in Constitutional Law

5

LGST113Gay Rights and the Law

5

LGST114Jews, Anti-Semitism, and the American Legal System

5

LGST115Law and the Holocaust

5

LGST116
/POLI 116
Comparative Law

5

LGST117Sports, Law, and Politics

5

LGST118Law and Literature

5

LGST125History of the U.S. Penal Culture

5

LGST130Inequality and Law

5

LGST131Wildlife, Wilderness, and the Law

5

LGST133
/POLI 133
Law of Democracy

5

LGST135Native Peoples Law

5

LGST136Federal Indian Law and International Comparative Indigenous Peoples' Law

5

LGST137International Environmental Law and Policy

5

LGST139War Crimes

5

LGST150Children and the Law

5

LGST152Courts and Litigation

5

LGST154The Legal Profession

5

LGST155Topics in American Legal History: Making of American Constitutionalism

5

LGST156Administrative Law and Challenges of Regulation

5

LGST157Political Jurisprudence

5

LGST159Property and the Law

5

LGST173
/POLI 173
Disability, Law, & Politics

5

POLI175
/LGST 175
Human Rights

5

LGST185Legal Studies Internship/Field Seminar: Experiences in Law, Policy, and Society

5

POLI186
/LGST 186
Global Health Politics

5

Additional Courses

The following courses are offered by other departments. Enrollment is only through the offered rubric (not as LGST) but the course will count toward the LGST minor requirements. 

ANTH130CPolitics and Culture in China

5

ANTH148
/FMST 148
Gender and Global Development

5

ANTH187Cultural Heritage in Colonial Contexts

5

ANTH187BCultural Resource Management

5

ENVS140National Environmental Policy

5

FMST194OThe Politics of Gender and Human Rights

5

HIS110BRevolutionary America, 1740-1815

5

HIS121BAfrican American History: 1877 to the Present

5

LALS194XExtractivism and Socio-Environmental Conflicts in the Americas

5

LIT168AThe Culture of Islamic Law

5

PHIL140History of Ethics

5

PHIL153Philosophy of Race

5

PSYC114Human Development as a Cultural Process

5

PSYC140MLegitimizing (In)Equality: Attitudes, Beliefs, and Social Policy

5

PSYC153The Psychology of Poverty and Social Class

5

POLI103Feminist Interventions

5

SOCY185Environmental Inequality

5