Legal Studies Minor

Course Requirements

To complete a minor in legal studies, a student must complete the following course requirements with a Pass or a grade of a C or better:

Lower-Division Courses

One lower-division course.

LGST10

Introduction to Legal Process

5

Upper-Division Courses

Any five upper-division electives may be used to complete the minor.

The following courses are offered by the Legal Studies (LGST) Program or are crosslisted with LGST by another department. Enrollment in either rubric will count toward the legal studies major requirements. 

ANTH110C /LGST 112	California Pasts	5
LGST100 /POLI 100	Law and Politics of Memory	5
POLI102	Doing Research	5
LGST108	Gender, Sexuality, and Law	5
LGST109	Legal Theory	5
LGST111B /POLI 111B	Civil Liberties	5
LGST111C	Issues in Constitutional Law	5
LGST113	Gay Rights and the Law	5
LGST114	Jews, Anti-Semitism, and the American Legal System	5
LGST115	Law and the Holocaust	5
LGST116 /POLI 116	Comparative Law	5
LGST117	Sports, Law, and Politics	5
LGST118	Law and Literature	5
LGST125	History of the U.S. Penal Culture	5
LGST130	Inequality and Law	5
LGST131	Wildlife, Wilderness, and the Law	5
LGST133 /POLI 133	Law of Democracy	5
LGST135	Native Peoples Law	5
LGST136	Federal Indian Law and International Comparative Indigenous Peoples' Law	5
LGST137	International Environmental Law and Policy	5
LGST139	War Crimes	5
LGST150	Children and the Law	5
LGST152	Courts and Litigation	5
LGST154	The Legal Profession	5
LGST155	Topics in American Legal History: Making of American Constitutionalism	5
LGST156	Administrative Law and Challenges of Regulation	5
LGST157	Political Jurisprudence	5
LGST159	Property and the Law	5
LGST173 /POLI 173	Disability, Law, & Politics	5
POLI175 /LGST 175	Human Rights	5
LGST185	Legal Studies Internship/Field Seminar: Experiences in Law, Policy, and Society	5
POLI186 /LGST 186	Global Health Politics	5

Additional Courses

The following courses are offered by other departments. Enrollment is only through the offered rubric (not as LGST) but the course will count toward the LGST minor requirements. 

ANTH130C	Politics and Culture in China	5
ANTH148 /FMST 148	Gender and Global Development	5
ANTH187	Cultural Heritage in Colonial Contexts	5
ANTH187B	Cultural Resource Management	5
ENVS140	National Environmental Policy	5
FMST194O	The Politics of Gender and Human Rights	5
HIS110B	Revolutionary America, 1740-1815	5
HIS121B	African American History: 1877 to the Present	5
LALS194X	Extractivism and Socio-Environmental Conflicts in the Americas	5
LIT168A	The Culture of Islamic Law	5
PHIL140	History of Ethics	5
PHIL153	Philosophy of Race	5
PSYC114	Human Development as a Cultural Process	5
PSYC140M	Legitimizing (In)Equality: Attitudes, Beliefs, and Social Policy	5
PSYC153	The Psychology of Poverty and Social Class	5
POLI103	Feminist Interventions	5
SOCY185	Environmental Inequality	5