Course Requirements

The minor in Law and Society consists of five courses, as follows:

(a) Either V53.0335, Law and Society (Politics) or V93.0413, Law in Society (Sociology) and

(b) Four courses selected from the list below. To ensure the minor's interdisciplinary character, no more than two of these four may be from any one department. Exceptional students may be allowed, in their senior year and in consultation with the minor advisor, to substitute for one of the four courses either:

  • an internship in an existing department or program (e.g. Metropolitan Studies, Politics); or

  • an independent study involving a research paper or project or an apprenticeship with a faculty member doing relevant research; or

  • a relevant graduate course.

NOTE: Courses applied to a major cannot also be double-counted towards this minor.

Anthropology
G14.1702 Language and Problem Solving: The Legal Process and the Narrated Self*

Classics
V27.0292 History of Ancient Law

Economics
V31.0255 Economics of the Law*

Morse Academic Plan
V55.0609 The Rule of Law
V55.0608 Violence
V55.0618 Crime, Justice & Society
V55.0622 Social Justice in a Diverse Society

Fine Arts
V43.0037 Urban Design and the Law

German
V51.0290 Law and Literature (given in English)

History
V57.0164 Foundations of the Common Law
V57.0650 The American Legal Profession in the 20th Century

Journalism
V54.0011 Media and the Law

Law and Society
V62.0249 Urban Settlements

Metropolitan Studies
V99.0232 Law and Urban Problems
V99.0346 Topics: Asian American Civil Rights and the Law*

Philosophy
V83.0064 Philosophy of Law*

Politics
V53.0330 The American Constitution
V53.0332 Civil Liberties
V53.0334 American Law and Legal Systems
V53.0336 Gender in Law
V53.0354 Law and Administrative Regulation
V53.0360 The Politics of Administrative Law

Psychology
V89.0076 Psychology and the Law*

Sociology
V93.0502 Deviance and Social Control
V93.0503 Criminology
V93.0936 Seminar in Sociology: Gender, Politics, Law*

*Please consult the CAS Bulletin for course prerequisites.

 
last updated:
September 28, 1998
by Sergej Zoubok

 

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