Summer 2026 Legal Studies Courses

Intro Course: Legal St/Soc 131: Criminal Justice in America 

Statistics (one course from this listing)  

Economics 310: Statistics: Measurement in Economics
Ed Pol 209: Quantitative Methods for Education (dars exception needed)
General Business 306: Business Analytics
Psychology 210: Basic Stats for Psychology
Sociology 360: Statistics for Sociologists
Statistics 301: Introduction to Statistics
Statistics 371: Intro Applied Stats – Life Sciences  

Research Design (one course from this listing)  

Political Science 170: Research Methods
Psychology 225: Research Methods
Social Work 650: Methods of Social Work Research (dars exception needed)
Sociology 357: Methods of Sociological Inquiry  

 Theme Group 1: Legal Institutions  

General Business 301: Business Law 
**Chicla 330: Immigrant Justice: Law & Rights (dars exception needed) 
Legal St/ELPA/Ed Pol 442: Civil Rights Laws, the Courts and Public Education (dars exception needed)
*Political Science 434: Politics of Human Rights  

Theme Group 2: Process of Legal Order & Disorder   

Comm Arts 371: Communication and Conflict Resolution 
Legal Studies 694: Field Observation in Criminal Justice and Legal Studies (application and internship required)
Sociology 441: Criminology   

Theme Group 3: Law & Social Forces 

**AfroAm/Hist 321: Afro-American History Since 1900
**Chicla 321: Chicano/Latino Educational Justice (dars exception needed) 
Ed Pol 220/ Intl. St. 220: Human Rights and Education (dars exception needed)
**GWS/Intl St 535: Women’s Global Health and Human Rights 
Legal St 135: Disability and the Criminal Justice System 
Legal St/GWS 422: Women and the Law
*Legal St./Soc/GWS 425: Crime, Gender and Justice
Political Science 314: Criminal Law and Justice  
Social Work 636: SW in American Indian Communities: Indian Child Welfare Act 

Theme Group 4: Law & Culture 

*History 201: Shanghai Life and Crime 
Legal Studies/Engl 160: Truth and Crime (Lit) 
Legal St/Hist 477: History of Forensic Science 
Political Science 400: Movie Justice: Law in Cinema (dars exception needed) 

Theme Group 5: Law & Theory 

*Legal Studies/History 426: History of Punishment 
LIS 461: Data and Algorithms: Ethics and Policy (dars exception needed) 
Philosophy 341: Contemporary Moral Issues 

 Core Perspectives  

*Legal St./Soc/GWS 425: Crime, Gender and Justice 
*Legal Studies/History 426: History of Punishment  
Legal St/Hist 477: History of Forensic Science 

 *Meets requirement that at least two courses in the major must have substantial content dealing with countries or cultures outside the United States or with the international legal system. For this requirement, a course can count for a theme and the global requirement.  

**Meets Race/Justice requirement (for students who declared Fall 2023 and later). A course can count for a theme and the race/justice requirement.