Law and the Liberal Arts

  • Law and the Liberal Arts

    Nancy Schauber, Coordinator (Philosophy)

    Law and the liberal arts is an interdisciplinary minor that consists of courses from across the curriculum. The courses that count toward the minor are among those that are generally recommended by law schools for students thinking about going to law school. The purpose of the courses within the minor is to prepare one to think critically and analytically as a well-rounded liberal artist. The courses are divided into eight areas: law, American history, economics, ethics, legal system, logical reasoning, public speaking and debate, and writing.

  • Minor

    The Law and the Liberal Arts Minor

    Note: Students must receive a C (2.0) or above for these courses to count toward the minor. No course taken for less than half a unit will count towards the minor.

    Six units, including:

    • One unit in Area 1

    • Five units from at least five of the remaining areas

    • No more than three of the courses to be applied toward the minor may be from any one department.

    • At least two courses must be at the 300-level or higher to count toward the minor. No more than two courses at the 100-level may count toward the minor.

    • Students are expected to fulfill all prerequisites necessary for courses within the minor. Prerequisites do not count toward the minor unless otherwise noted.

    • AREA 1: LAW

      • ECON231 Law and Economics

      • PHIL260 Philosophical Problems in Law and Society

      • PHIL364 Philosophy of Law

      • PHIL381 Topics Seminar Issues I (appropriate when the subject relates primarily to law and is approved by the Law and Liberal Arts Advisory Council)

      • PLSC331 Constitutional Law

      • PLSC333 Civil Rights and Civil Liberties

      • PLSC336 SCOTUS & Criminal Procedure

      • PLSC339 Jurisprudence and Contemporary American Politics

      • PLSC379 Selected Topics (appropriate when the subject relates primarily to law and the course is approved by the law and the liberal arts advisory council)

      • RHCS353 Rhetoric and Law

    • AREA 2: AMERICAN HISTORY

      • HIST199 The Tokyo Trials

      • HIST199 Church and State in Early America

      • HIST199Liberty vs Security: Free Speech from Jefferson to Lincoln

      • HIST200 Colonial America

      • HIST218 State and Society in Modern America

      • ST: Transnational Abolitionism

      • HIST391 Transnational Social Reform

      • HIST400  Senior Seminar: The Alien and Sedition Acts

      • HIST 901 AP US History (counts as 100-level class)

    • AREA 3: ECONOMICS

      • ECON101 Principles of Microeconomics

      • ECON102 Principles of Macroeconomics

      • ECON105 Introduction to Global Economics

    • AREA 4: ETHICS

      • ECON233 Ethics and Economics

      • LDST210 Justice and Civil Society

      • LDST377 Ethical Decision Making - Health Care

      • PHIL120 Contemporary Moral Issues

      • PHIL265 Bioethics

      • ENVR269 Environmental Ethics

      • PHIL360 Ethics

      • PHIL365 Action, Responsibility, and Free Will

      • PHIL375 Ethics and Practical Reasoning

      • PHIL381 Topics Seminar Issues I (appropriate when the subject relates primarily to law and is approved by the Law and Liberal Arts Advisory Council)

      • RELG267 Varieties of Christian Ethics

    • AREA 5: LEGAL SYSTEM

      • ANTH335 Law and Order: the Anthropology of Justice

      • CLSC320 Cultural Property: Archaeology, Ethics, and Law

      • PLSC337 Legal System

      • SOC207 Crime and Justice in a Post-Modern Society

    • AREA 6: LOGICAL REASONING

      • CMSC150 Introduction to Computing

      • MATH300 Fundamentals of Abstract Mathematics

      • PHIL251 Elementary Symbolic Logic

    • AREA 7: PUBLIC SPEAKING AND DEBATE

    • AREA 8: WRITING

      • ENGL383 Introduction to Composition Theory and Pedagogy

      • PHIL353 Philosophical Methods: Majors'/Minors' Seminar