Spring 2027 Law & Humanities Courses

The Certificate requires a minimum of five courses and a minimum of 15 credits. The courses must be distributed as follows:

    • (1) course from the Introduction to Law & Humanities section

    • (3) courses from Themes in Law & Humanities

  • (1) course from the Capstone Experience

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Introduction to Law and Humanities 

Legal Studies 213: Intro to Law and Humanities

Themes in Law and Humanities (complete 3)

History 143: History of Race and Inequality in Urban America
History 155: The Long Black Freedom Struggle from the Civil War to the Present
History 201: Shanghai Life and Crime
Journalism 563: Law of Mass Communication
Legal St/Hist 262: American Legal History from 1860s to Present
Legal St/Hist 426: History of Punishment
Legal St 460: Surveillance, Privacy and Police Powers
Legal St 461: Data and Algorithms: Ethics and Policy
LIS 201: The Information Society (Comm B) (dars exception needed)
Philosophy 241: Introductory Ethics
Philosophy 341: Contemporary Moral Issues
Philosophy 504: Special Topics in the Theory of Knowledge (Bayesian Epistemology)
Philosophy 516: Language and Meaning
Philosophy 544: Advanced Ethics of Data and Artificial Intelligence
Religious Studies 270: The Environment – Religion and Ethics
Relig St 328: Classical Rabbinic Literature in Translation (dars exception needed)
Religious Studies 433: Religion and Politics
Religious Studies 501: Philosophy of Religion

The Capstone Experience 

History 600: Law and Middle Ages (dars exception needed)
History 600: Law and Authority (dars exception needed)
Legal Studies 477: History of Forensic Science
Legal Studies 510: Legal Pluralism