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

One lower-division course.

LGST 10

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, are crosslisted with LGST by another department, or are offered by another department. Enrollment in LGST or the course code listed will count toward the legal studies major requirements. 

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 140 /LGST 140E	National Environmental Policy	5
ENVS 152 /POLI 170	International Environmental Politics	5
ENVS 179	Environmental Interpretation	5
FMST 194O /CRES 190O	The Politics of Gender and Human Rights	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
LGST 108	Gender, Sexuality, and Law	5
LGST 109	Legal Theory	5
LGST 111B /POLI 111B	Civil Liberties	5
LGST 111C	Issues in Constitutional Law	5
LGST 113	Gay Rights and the Law	5
LGST 114	Jews, Anti-Semitism, and the American Legal System	5
LGST 115	Law and the Holocaust	5
LGST 116 /POLI 116	Comparative Law	5
LGST 117	Sports, Law, and Politics	5
LGST 118	Law and Literature	5
LGST 125	History of the U.S. Penal Culture	5
LGST 130	Inequality and Law	5
LGST 131	Wildlife, Wilderness, and the Law	5
LGST 133 /POLI 133	Law of Democracy	5
LGST 135	Native Peoples Law	5
LGST 136	Federal Indian Law and International Comparative Indigenous Peoples' Law	5
LGST 137	International Environmental Law and Policy	5
LGST 139	War Crimes	5
LGST 146	Philosophy of Law	5
LGST 150	Children and the Law	5
LGST 152	Courts and Litigation	5
LGST 153	Immigration, Citizenship, and Law	5
LGST 154	The Legal Profession	5
LGST 155	Topics in American Legal History: Making of American Constitutionalism	5
LGST 156	Administrative Law and Challenges of Regulation	5
LGST 157	Political Jurisprudence	5
LGST 158 /POLI 158	Law and Politics of Memory	5
LGST 159	Property and the Law	5
LGST 161	Intellectual Property	5
LGST 173 /POLI 173	Disability, Law, & Politics	5
LGST 185	Legal Studies Internship/Field Seminar: Experiences in Law, Policy, and Society	5
LGST 188A /OAKS 188A	Introduction to the Legal Profession and Legal Aid Work	2
LIT 168A	The Culture of Islamic Law	5
OAKS 188B /LGST 188B	Legal Field Practice: Professional Skills and Ethics	3
PHIL 140	History of Ethics	5
PHIL 153	Philosophy of Race	5
POLI 102	Doing Research	5
POLI 103	Feminist Interventions	5
POLI 160B /LGST 160B	International Law	5
POLI 175 /LGST 175	Human Rights	5
POLI 186 /LGST 186	Global Health Politics	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
LGST 124	Government Secrecy	5
POLI 120A /LGST 120A	Congress, President, and the Court in American Politics	5
ENVS 144 /POLI 179	Global Climate Change Politics	5
LGST 148 /ENVS 148	Cites, Urban Planning, and the Law	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
POLI 165	Global Organization	5
ENVS 130B /LGST 130B	Justice and Sustainability in Agriculture	5
SOCY 117E	Migrant Europe	5
LIT 168B	Islamic Law and Society	5
PHIL 143	Applied Ethics: Ethics Bowl	5