Pre-Law Minor

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 indentification 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 (18 units).

Prerequisites: 9 units                       

POL 1 American Government and Institutions (3)                            
PHI 10 Critical Thinking (3) or ENG 1C Freshman English
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 171/ POL 105 Business Law II (3)
BUS 106/ 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
POL 176 Public Policy
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)

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

Please contact Dr. Helen Boutrous for further information about MSMC's Pre-Law Minor.