Legal Studies Minor

Course Requirements

The legal studies minor comprises six courses: LGST 10 plus any five upper-division LGST courses.

Students in the legal studies minor are not required to follow major requirements such as taking courses in each thematic area, the philosophy (ethics) requirement, or a senior seminar course.

Lower-Division Courses

Take this course

LGST 10Introduction to Legal Process

5

Upper-Division Courses

Take any five 5-credit courses from LGST 100-187 or from the list below. 5-credit courses crosslisted as LGST courses will also count toward this requirement. Students should contact the department if they wish to count independent study toward this requirement.

ANTH 110C
/LGST 112
California Pasts

5

ANTH 130CPolitics and Culture in China

5

ANTH 148
/FMST 148
Gender and Global Development

5

ANTH 187Cultural Heritage in Colonial Contexts

5

ANTH 187BCultural Resource Management

5

ENVS 130B
/LGST 130B
Justice and Sustainability in Agriculture

5

ENVS 140
/LGST 140E
National Environmental Policy

5

ENVS 144
/POLI 179
Global Climate Change Politics

5

ENVS 150
/LGST 150A
Coastal and Marine Policy

5

ENVS 151
/LGST 151A
Environmental Assessment

5

ENVS 152
/POLI 170
International Environmental Politics

5

ENVS 165
/LGST 165A
Sustainable Water Systems

5

ENVS 179Environmental Interpretation

5

FMST 194O
/CRES 190O
The Politics of Gender and Human Rights

5

GCH 186Global Health Politics

5

HIS 110BRevolutionary America, 1740-1815

5

HIS 110DThe Civil War Era

5

HIS 121BAfrican American History: 1877 to the Present

5

LALS 194XExtractivism and Socio-Environmental Conflicts in the Americas

5

LIT 168AThe Culture of Islamic Law

5

LIT 168BIslamic Law and Society

5

OAKS 188B
/LGST 188B
Legal Field Practice: Professional Skills and Ethics

3

PHIL 140History of Ethics

5

PHIL 143Applied Ethics: Ethics Bowl

5

PHIL 153
/LGST 143
Philosophy of Race

5

POLI 102Doing Political Research

5

POLI 103Feminist Interventions

5

POLI 120A
/LGST 120A
Congress, President, and the Court in American Politics

5

POLI 160B
/LGST 160B
International Law

5

POLI 165
/LGST 166
Global Organization

5

POLI 175
/LGST 175
Human Rights

5

PSYC 114Human Development as a Cultural Process

5

PSYC 140MLegitimizing (In)Equality: Attitudes, Beliefs, and Social Policy

5

PSYC 153The Psychology of Poverty and Social Class

5

SOCY 185Environmental Inequality

5

SOCY 117EMigrant Europe

5

LGST 188A/OAKS188A and OAKS 188B/LGST 188B must both be taken to count as one course.