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 | 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 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
| 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
| 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.