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2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog

Legal Studies (LGLS) - BS Major

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54 credits (no minor required)

2.0 GPA required.

Letter grade required in all major courses unless otherwise noted.

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Phase I. Interdisciplinary Foundations (21 credits)

History Lower Division (6 credits)

HIST 150 - United States History to 1865 (3 credits)
HIST 151 - United States History Since 1865 (3 credits)

History Upper Division (6 credits)

Students can select any two 300 or 400-level history courses.

◎ HIST 315 - Women in U.S. History (3 credits)
HIST 320 - Topics in Native American History (3 credits)
HIST 325 - American Diplomatic History (3 credits)
HIST 335 - The Holocaust (3 credits)
HIST 340 - History of Christianity (3 credits)
HIST 341 - Modern Japan (3 credits)
HIST 343 - Modern China (3 credits)
HIST 345 - History of American Sports (3 credits)
HIST 355 - European Intellectual and Cultural History (3 credits)
△ HIST 365 - American Legal History (3 credits)
◆ HIST 395 - Historical Research Methods (3 credits)
HIST 397 - Topics in History (3 credits)
◎ HIST 398 - Topics in History with Oral Communication Emphasis (3 credits)
HIST 401 - Ancient Rome (3 credits)
△ HIST 403 - Middle Ages (3 credits)
HIST 408 - Renaissance (3 credits)
HIST 409 - Reformation (3 credits)
HIST 412 - French Revolution and Napoleon (3 credits)
HIST 415 - Europe and Contemporary History since 1919 (3 credits)
HIST 417 - Hitler and Nazi Germany (3 credits)
HIST 421 - Tudor and Stuart England (3 credits)
HIST 423 - Modern England (3 credits)
△ HIST 434 - Modern Russia and the USSR since 1905 (3 credits)
HIST 440 - World War II (3 credits)
△ HIST 447 - America in the Vietnam War Era (3 credits)
HIST 461 - Latin American Social Revolution (3 credits)
△ HIST 463 - History of Mexico (3 credits)
HIST 468 - History of the Andean Nations (3 credits)
HIST 469 - History of Brazil (3 credits)
HIST 476 - The American Revolution (3 credits)
HIST 477 - The Age of Jackson (3 credits)
HIST 478 - The Old South (3 credits)
HIST 479 - The Civil War and Reconstruction (3 credits)
HIST 480 - Gilded Age of America (1877-1900) (3 credits)
HIST 481 - History of the American West (3 credits)
HIST 483 - The Progressive Era and the “New Era” Twenties (1901-1929) (3 credits)
HIST 485 - Contemporary America 1945-Present (3 credits)
HIST 486 - American Intellectual and Cultural History (3 credits)
◎ HIST 488 - American Constitutional History (3 credits)
HIST 499 - Independent Readings in History (1-3 credits)

Political Science Lower Division (3 credits)

POLS 120 - Introduction to American Politics (3 credits)

Political Science Upper Division (6 credits)

Students can select any two of the following courses.

POLS 220 - Civil Rights and Civil Liberties (3 credits)
POLS 221 - State and Local Government (3 credits)
POLS 227 - Judicial Process & Politics (3 credits)
POLS 240 - Global Environmental Problems and Policy (3 credits)
◆ POLS 280 - Introduction to Political Analysis (3 credits)
POLS 320 - Constitutional Law (3 credits)
△ POLS 330 - Race & American Politics (3 credits)
POLS 340 - Environmental Policy (3 credits)
POLS 341 - Health Care Politics & Policy (3 credits)
POLS 343 - Human Rights in Theory and Practice (3 credits)
◎ POLS 346 - International Law (3 credits)
POLS 419 - Constitutional Politics (3 credits)
POLS 420 - Administrative Law (3 credits)
◎ POLS 421 - The First Amendment (3 credits)
POLS 450 - Feminist Political Theory (3 credits)

Phase II. Legal Specialty Sequence (27 credits)

These courses concentrate on specific aspects of the legal profession. Legal specialty courses are offered in sequence.

Legal Studies Core Courses (18 credits)

LGLS 101 - Introduction to American Law (3 credits)
LGLS 211 - Introduction to Legal Studies and Ethics (3 credits)
△ LGLS 370 - Legal Research and Writing I (3 credits)
◆ LGLS 372 - Legal Research and Writing II (3 credits)
LGLS 373 - Civil Procedure (3 credits)
LGLS 376 - Criminal Procedure (3 credits)

Electives (6 credits)

Students can select any two of the following courses.

LGLS 374 - Evidentiary Rules (3 credits)
LGLS 377 - Practical Legal Investigation Techniques (3 credits)
LGLS 381 - Legal Studies Topics and Issues (3 credits)
◎ LGLS 385 - Mock Trial I (3 credits)

Legal Studies Internship (3 credits)

Students are required to complete at least a 3-credit internship. They may select a 3, 6, 9 or 12-credit internship.

LGLS 380 - Legal Studies Internship (1-12 credits) (3, 6, 9 or 12 credits) *

Phase III. Law in Society Electives (6 credits)

Students can select any two of the following courses.

ACCT 421 - Introduction to Taxation (4 credits)
BUSA 291 - Legal Environment of Business (3 credits)
BUSA 311 - Business Law II (3 credits)
BUSA 331 - Internet Law (3 credits)
BUSA 351 - Employment Law (3 credits)
BUSA 361 - Negotiations and Influence (3 credits)
BUSA 371 - Sports Management & Law (3 credits)
BUSA 381 - Corporate Crime (3 credits)
BUSA 411 - International Business Law (3 credits)
BUSA 421 - Consumer Law (3 credits)
BUSA 441 - Health Care Law and Ethics (2 credits)
CAST 301 - Perspectives on Child Maltreatment and Child Advocacy (3 credits)
CAST 302 - Global Child Advocacy Issues (3 credits)
CAST 401 - Professional and System Responses to Child Maltreatment (3 credits)
CAST 402 - Responding to the Survivor of Child Abuse and Survivor Responses (3 credits)
CAST 403 - Child Exploitation, Pornography, and the Internet (3 credits)
CAST 404 - Examining Child Poverty (3 credits)
CJS 210 - Crime & Justice in America (3 credits)
CJS 299 - Diversity & the Justice System (3 credits)
CJS 314 - Juvenile Justice (3 credits)
CJS 315 - Criminology (3 credits)
CJS 355 - Corrections (3 credits)
◎ CJS 365 - Forensic Interviewing of Children (3 credits)
△ CJS 418 - Criminal Law and Procedure (3 credits)
CJS 420 - Minnesota Criminal Code (3 credits)
CJS 424 - Ethical Issues in Criminal Justice (3 credits)
CJS 455 - Family and Domestic Violence (3 credits)
HADM 441 - Healthcare Law and Ethics (2 credits)
△ HIST 495 - Senior Research Seminar (3 credits)
◆ HIST 395 - Historical Research Methods (3 credits)
◆ MCOM 300 - Mass Media Law (3 credits)
PHIL 341 - Just War Tradition (3 credits)
PHIL 332 - Philosophy of Law (3 credits)
PHIL 231 - Business Ethics (3 credits)
PHYS 310 - Science and Technology in Litigation (4 credits)
PSY 330 - Psychology and the Law (3 credits)
SOC 216 - Social Problems (3 credits)
SOC 423 - Sociology of Race and Ethnicity (3 credits)
SOC 431 - Social Class and Power (3 credits)
SOCW 420 - Child Welfare (3 credits)
SOCW 425 - Law and Social Work (3 credits)

Legend

◎ = Oral Intensive

◆ = Math/Critical Analysis Intensive

△ = Writing Intensive

✽ = Physical Development and Wellness Graduation Requirement

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