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.
LGST10 | Introduction 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 |
POLI102 | Doing Research | 5 |
LGST108 | Gender, Sexuality, and Law | 5 |
LGST109 | Legal Theory | 5 |
LGST111B
/POLI 111B
| Civil Liberties | 5 |
LGST111C | Issues in Constitutional Law | 5 |
LGST113 | Gay Rights and the Law | 5 |
LGST114 | Jews, Anti-Semitism, and the American Legal System | 5 |
LGST115 | Law and the Holocaust | 5 |
LGST116
/POLI 116
| Comparative Law | 5 |
LGST117 | Sports, Law, and Politics | 5 |
LGST118 | Law and Literature | 5 |
LGST125 | History of the U.S. Penal Culture | 5 |
LGST130 | Inequality and Law | 5 |
LGST131 | Wildlife, Wilderness, and the Law | 5 |
LGST133
/POLI 133
| Law of Democracy | 5 |
LGST135 | Native Peoples Law | 5 |
LGST136 | Federal Indian Law and International Comparative Indigenous Peoples' Law | 5 |
LGST137 | International Environmental Law and Policy | 5 |
LGST139 | War Crimes | 5 |
LGST150 | Children and the Law | 5 |
LGST152 | Courts and Litigation | 5 |
LGST154 | The Legal Profession | 5 |
LGST155 | Topics in American Legal History: Making of American Constitutionalism | 5 |
LGST156 | Administrative Law and Challenges of Regulation | 5 |
LGST157 | Political Jurisprudence | 5 |
LGST159 | Property and the Law | 5 |
LGST173
/POLI 173
| Disability, Law, & Politics | 5 |
POLI175
/LGST 175
| Human Rights | 5 |
LGST185 | Legal 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.
ANTH130C | Politics and Culture in China | 5 |
ANTH148
/FMST 148
| Gender and Global Development | 5 |
ANTH187 | Cultural Heritage in Colonial Contexts | 5 |
ANTH187B | Cultural Resource Management | 5 |
ENVS140 | National Environmental Policy | 5 |
FMST194O | The Politics of Gender and Human Rights | 5 |
HIS110B | Revolutionary America, 1740-1815 | 5 |
HIS121B | African American History: 1877 to the Present | 5 |
LALS194X | Extractivism and Socio-Environmental Conflicts in the Americas | 5 |
LIT168A | The Culture of Islamic Law | 5 |
PHIL140 | History of Ethics | 5 |
PHIL153 | Philosophy of Race | 5 |
PSYC114 | Human Development as a Cultural Process | 5 |
PSYC140M | Legitimizing (In)Equality: Attitudes, Beliefs, and Social Policy | 5 |
PSYC153 | The Psychology of Poverty and Social Class | 5 |
POLI103 | Feminist Interventions | 5 |
SOCY185 | Environmental Inequality | 5 |