Students who Declared Fall 2025 or After

Legal Studies/Sociology 131: Criminal Justice in America

AfAm 272: Race and American Politics from the New Deal to the New Right (Ethnic St.) (dars exception needed)
Ed. Pol/History 143: History of Race and Inequality in Urban America (Ethnic St.) (Comm b)
English 182: Doing Time: Race, Labor, Incarceration (Lit) (honors only)
HDFS 474: Racial Ethnic Families in U.S. (Ethnic St)
Legal St./Soc 451: Race, Family and the State
Legal St./Af.Am. 435: Civil Rights
Legal St./ChicLa/Soc 443: Immigration, Crime & Enforcement (Ethnic St)
Legal St.400/Soc 496: Incarceration and Inequality (dars exception needed)
Pub Affr 520: Inequality, Race and Public Policy (Ethnic St.) (dars exception needed)
Sociology 578: Poverty and Place

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Please note: these courses require advance preparation/permission to enroll per department

Legal St 694: Field Observation in Criminal Justice & Legal Studies

• Only available to students currently enrolled in pre-internship canvas site. If you have an internship for Spring 2026 and you are not enrolled in pre-internship canvas site, please email cjcp@ssc.wisc.edu

• This course is 3 credits and offered every semester. Students are enrolled in legal studies 694 at the same time they are interning.

• In order to get permission to enroll in legal studies 694, students must participate in a pre-internship process that typically begins the semester before a student wants to enroll in legal studies 694 and intern.

The other listed internship and research opportunities are administered by other programs. Some may be limited to students who are declared in those specific programs. All require advance lead time and authorization for enrollment by the specific program.

Legal St. 473: Health Impacts of Unmet Social Needs (Find more information & application here)

HDFS 592: Research Experience in HDFS

Political Science 315: Legislative Internship (If you are interested in enrolling in PS 315, once you have an internship in place, please email Amy Gangl at agangl@wisc.edu with the name and email contact info of your internship office supervisor, the number of hours you will be working each week during the semester (a minimum of 7-9 hours required), and your campus ID number.

Pub Affr 327: Administrative Internship

Rehab Psychology & Special Ed 630: Internship in Rehabilitation or Special Ed (Contact Rebecca Bradbury, rebecca.bradbury@wisc.edu, for questions regarding requisites and course permissions.)

Coun Psy 237: Mental Health, Self-Awareness, and Social Justice: Working in Diverse Communities (Ethnic Studies)
Coun Psy 531: Prevention and Intervention in Mental Health Across the Lifespan
Coun Psy 655: Clinical Communication Skills
Econ 690: Economics of Crime (ECON 301 or 311 pre req) (dars exception needed)
Legal St. 135: Disability and the Criminal Justice System
Legal St./Hist 235: Prisons: From Antiquity to Supermax
Legal St. 400/Soc 496: The Penitentiary in Global Perspective (dars exception needed)
Legal St. 422: Women and the Law
Legal St. 444: Law in Action
Legal St. 477: History of Forensic Science
Political Science 412: The American Constitution: Rights and Civil Liberties
Psychology 405: Adult Psychopathology
Social Work 453: Substance Use Disorders
Social Work 627: Sex Trafficking and Sex Trading
Social Work 636: Indian Child Welfare Act
Social Work 646: Child Abuse and Neglect
Psych 526: The Criminal Mind
Psych 626: Issues in Prisoner Re-Entry (dars exception needed)
Psych 601: Psych of Juvenile Delinquency—Seniors only, Capstone Psych Course (dars exception needed)
Social Work 612: Psychopathology in Generalist Social Work Practice
Sociology 441: Criminology