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.

LGST 10

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, are crosslisted with LGST by another department, or are offered by another department. Enrollment in LGST or the course code listed will count toward the legal studies major requirements. 

ANTH 110C /LGST 112	California Pasts	5
LGST 158 /POLI 158	Law and Politics of Memory	5
POLI 102	Doing Research	5
LGST 108	Gender, Sexuality, and Law	5
LGST 109	Legal Theory	5
LGST 111B /POLI 111B	Civil Liberties	5
LGST 111C	Issues in Constitutional Law	5
LGST 113	Gay Rights and the Law	5
LGST 114	Jews, Anti-Semitism, and the American Legal System	5
LGST 115	Law and the Holocaust	5
LGST 116 /POLI 116	Comparative Law	5
LGST 117	Sports, Law, and Politics	5
LGST 118	Law and Literature	5
LGST 125	History of the U.S. Penal Culture	5
LGST 130	Inequality and Law	5
LGST 131	Wildlife, Wilderness, and the Law	5
LGST 133 /POLI 133	Law of Democracy	5
LGST 135	Native Peoples Law	5
LGST 136	Federal Indian Law and International Comparative Indigenous Peoples' Law	5
LGST 137	International Environmental Law and Policy	5
LGST 139	War Crimes	5
LGST 150	Children and the Law	5
LGST 152	Courts and Litigation	5
LGST 154	The Legal Profession	5
LGST 155	Topics in American Legal History: Making of American Constitutionalism	5
LGST 156	Administrative Law and Challenges of Regulation	5
LGST 157	Political Jurisprudence	5
LGST 159	Property and the Law	5
POLI 160B /LGST 160B	International Law	5
POLI 171 /LGST 171	Law of War	5
LGST 173 /POLI 173	Disability, Law, & Politics	5
POLI 175 /LGST 175	Human Rights	5
LGST 185	Legal Studies Internship/Field Seminar: Experiences in Law, Policy, and Society	5
POLI 186 /LGST 186	Global Health Politics	5
ANTH 130C	Politics and Culture in China	5
ANTH 148 /FMST 148	Gender and Global Development	5
ANTH 187	Cultural Heritage in Colonial Contexts	5
ANTH 187B	Cultural Resource Management	5
ENVS 140	National Environmental Policy	5
FMST 194O /CRES 190O	The Politics of Gender and Human Rights	5
HIS 110B	Revolutionary America, 1740-1815	5
HIS 121B	African American History: 1877 to the Present	5
LALS 194X	Extractivism and Socio-Environmental Conflicts in the Americas	5
LIT 168A	The Culture of Islamic Law	5
PHIL 140	History of Ethics	5
PHIL 153	Philosophy of Race	5
PSYC 114	Human Development as a Cultural Process	5
PSYC 140M	Legitimizing (In)Equality: Attitudes, Beliefs, and Social Policy	5
PSYC 153	The Psychology of Poverty and Social Class	5
POLI 103	Feminist Interventions	5
SOCY 185	Environmental Inequality	5