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. This program does not have a letter grade policy.

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 138
/LGST 138
Political Anthropology

5

ANTH 142
/LGST 142
Anthropology of Law

5

ANTH 148
/FMST 148
Gender and Global Development

5

ANTH 187Cultural Heritage in Colonial Contexts

5

ANTH 187BCultural Resource Management

5

ART 172Public Art: Memory, Landscape, and Artist as Activist

5

ART 181
/LGST 181
Art, Power & Politics

5

ECON 128
/LGST 128
Poverty and Public Policy

5

ECON 160A
/LGST 160A
Industrial Organization

5

ECON 162
/LGST 162
Legal Environment of Business

5

ECON 169
/LGST 169
Economic Analysis of the Law

5

ECON 183
/LGST 183
Women in the Economy

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 147Global Environmental Justice

5

ENVS 149
/LGST 149
Environmental Law and Policy

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

LGST 107Toleration, Speech, and Hate

5

LGST 108Gender, Sexuality, and Law

5

LGST 111B
/POLI 111B
Civil Liberties

5

LGST 111CThe First Amendment

5

LGST 114Jews, Anti-Semitism, and the American Legal System

5

LGST 115Law and the Holocaust

5

LGST 116
/POLI 116
Comparative Law

5

LGST 117Sports, Law, and Politics

5

LGST 124Government Secrecy

5

LGST 125History of the U.S. Penal Culture

5

LGST 131Wildlife, Wilderness, and the Law

5

LGST 133
/POLI 133
Law of Democracy

5

LGST 137International Environmental Law and Policy

5

LGST 139War Crimes

5

LGST 146Philosophy of Law

5

LGST 148
/ENVS 148
Cites, Urban Planning, and the Law

5

LGST 152Courts and Litigation

5

LGST 153Immigration, Citizenship, and Law

5

LGST 154The Legal Profession

5

LGST 155Topics in American Legal History: Making of American Constitutionalism

5

LGST 156Administrative Law and Challenges of Regulation

5

LGST 157Political Jurisprudence

5

LGST 158
/POLI 158
Law and Politics of Memory

5

LGST 159Property and the Law

5

LGST 161Intellectual Property

5

LGST 173
/POLI 173
Disability, Law, & Politics

5

LGST 185
/POLI 180
Internship/Field Seminar: Experiences in Law, Politics, and Policy

5

LGST 188A
/OAKS 188A
Introduction to the Legal Profession and Legal Aid Work

2

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

3

PHIL 126Philosophy of Social Sciences

5

PHIL 140
/LGST 140P
History of Ethics

5

PHIL 143Applied Ethics: Ethics Bowl

5

PHIL 144
/LGST 144
Topics in Social and Political Philosophy

5

PHIL 153
/LGST 143
Philosophy of Race

5

POLI 102Doing Political Research

5

POLI 103Feminist Interventions

5

POLI 105A
/LGST 105A
Ancient Political Thought

5

POLI 105B
/LGST 105B
Early Modern Political Thought

5

POLI 105C
/LGST 105C
Modern Political Thought

5

POLI 105D
/LGST 105D
Contemporary Political Theory: Modernity and its Discontents

5

POLI 110
/LGST 110
Law and Social Issues

5

POLI 111A
/LGST 111A
Constitutional Law

5

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

5

POLI 120B
/LGST 120B
Society and Democracy in American Political Development

5

POLI 120C
/LGST 120C
State and Capitalism in American Political Development

5

POLI 121
/LGST 121
Racism & Justice in America

5

POLI 132
/LGST 132
California Water Law and Policy

5

POLI 134
/LGST 134
Congress: Representation and Legislation

5

POLI 151
/LGST 151
Politics of Law

5

POLI 160B
/LGST 160B
International Law

5

POLI 165
/LGST 166
Global Organization

5

POLI 167
/LGST 167
Politics of International Trade

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 147APsychology and Law

5

PSYC 147BPsychology and Law

5

PSYC 153The Psychology of Poverty and Social Class

5

SOCY 117EMigrant Europe

5

SOCY 122
/LGST 122
The Sociology of Law

5

SOCY 127
/LGST 127
Drugs in Society

5

SOCY 128C
/LGST 128C
Social History of Democracy, Anarchism, and Indigenism

5

SOCY 128J
/LGST 128J
The World Jury on Trial

5

SOCY 128M
/LGST 128M
International Law and Global Justice

5

SOCY 185Environmental Inequality

5

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