Pre-Law Minor

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Department Affiliation: History and Political Science

An undergraduate major in either the social sciences or the humanities is the preferred preparation for legal study. The Pre-Law Minor is designed to supplement the study in the major program with additional emphases on analytic and expository skills requisite to the study of law. Early identification of an interest in law enables the student to approach the rigorous demands of both legal study and that of the legal profession more efficiently and effectively. It is essential that the student and the Director of the Pre-Law Minor collaborate in the process of selecting elective courses within the minor that will best prepare the individual student. The minor requires a minimum of six upper division courses (18units).

Prerequisites: 9 units

POL 1	American Government	(3)
PHI 10	Critical Thinking

ENG 1C	Freshman English	(3)
BUS 5/POL 5	Business Law	(3)

Required upper division courses:

POL 103	Legal Reasoning	(3)
POL 108	Constitutional Law	(3)

Plus four upper division elective courses from among the following:

Business Law:

BUS/POL 105	Business Law II	(3)
BUS/POL 106	Real Estate Law	((3)

Civil Rights/Advocacy:

POL 102	Women and the Law	(3)
POL 109	Individual Rights	(3)
POL 133	Moot Court	(3)
POL 138	International Law	(3)
POL 176	Public Policy	(3)
POL 180	State and Local Government	(3)
POL 188	Administrative Law	(3)

Criminal Law:

POL 107	Criminal Law	(3)
SOC 109	Forensics Studies: Criminalistics	(3)
SOC 110	Deviant Behavior: Juvenile Delinquency	(3)
SOC 111	Deviant Behavior:Criminology	(3)

Theory and Process:

PHI 155	Symbolic Logic	(3)
PHI 165	Philosophy of Law	(3)
POL 120	Legislative Process	(3)
POL 121	Judicial Politics	(3)

Any upper division course approved by the Director of the Pre-Law Minor.