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 10

Introduction to Legal Process

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 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 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 /LGST 10/LGST 111B/POLI 111A	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 179	Environmental Interpretation	5
FMST 194O /CRES 190O	The Politics of Gender and Human Rights	5
GCH 186	Global Health Politics	5
HIS 110B	Revolutionary America, 1740-1815	5
HIS 110D	The Civil War Era	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
LIT 168B	Islamic Law and Society	5
OAKS 188B /LGST 188B	Legal Field Practice: Professional Skills and Ethics	3
PHIL 140	History of Ethics	5
PHIL 143	Applied Ethics: Ethics Bowl	5
PHIL 153 /LGST 143 /LGST 10/PHIL 7/PHIL 9/PHIL 22/PHIL 24/PHIL 27	Philosophy of Race	5
POLI 102	Doing Political Research	5
POLI 103	Feminist 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 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
SOCY 185	Environmental Inequality	5
SOCY 117E	Migrant Europe	5

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