Prelaw Minor

The 15-credit Prelaw Minor provides students with the substantive background and specific skills for success in law school as well as basic exposure to legal systems and concepts. The Prelaw minor targets these areas for development:
- clear, concise, organized writing
- logic and reasoning skills
- oral argument and advocacy
- effective argument construction and assessment
- exposure to legal thinking and terminology
Required Courses
And an additional 12 credits from the following list:
- GOVT3240 Law and Society
- GOVT 2300 Civil Liberties / Civil Rights
- GOVT 3220 Criminal Law
- GOVT 3305 Judicial Process
- GOVT 3320 The Supreme Court
- GOVT 4220 Advanced Criminal Law
- GOVT 3230 International Criminal Law
- AFAM 2100 The New Jim Crow
- ANTH 2431 Anthropology of Crime
- ANTH 3349 War and Crime
- CMLGY 1306 Intro to Crime and Criminology
- CMLGY 2317 Probation and Parole
- CMLGY 2503 Crime & Media
- CMLGY 2701 Penology
- HIST 3250 Crime & Punishment in S. Africa
- HIST 3251 Crime & Punishment in Latin America
- PHIL 2432 Philosophy of Law
- WOMEN 2312 Gender and Public Policy
Other courses may be accepted upon petitioning to the director of the Prelaw Minor. These substitutes may include relevant faculty/student research, internships, or senior thesis credits.