Pre-Law Studies Minor

Course of Study - September 2000

Approved Changes Are Effective March 2004

REQUIRED COURSES: (9 credits)

ESSENTIAL SKILLS: (9 credits)

  • ENWR 205 Creative Non-Fiction
  • or ENWR 204 Advanced Expository Writing
  • GNHU 182 English Vocabulary: Classical Roots
  • LNGN 250 Language of Propaganda (meets G.E.R.)
  • or LSPA 290 Language of the Law
  • MATH 109 Statistics (meets G.E.R.)
  • or MATH 270 or FINQ 270 Statistics for Business
  • PHIL 106 Logic (meets G.E.R.)
  • PHIL 264 Critical Reasoning and Arguments
  • LSLW 324 Legal Reasoning
  • SPCM 234 Public Speaking
  • SPCM 438 Principles of Persuasion
  • LSPR 210 Law and Litigation
BACKGROUND COURSES: (6 credits)
  • ACCT 201 Fundamentals of Accounting I
  • or BSED 101 Contemporary Business
  • or ECON 101 Principles of Economics: Macro (meets G.E.R.)
  • HIST 117 History of the United States to 1876
  • or HIST 118 History of the United States since 1876
  • LSLW 220 Conflict and Its Resolution
  • or LSLW315 The Mediation Process and Its Applications
  • or LSLW 499 Selected Topics in Law**
  • PHIL 212 Social and Political Philosophy
  • or PHIL 310 Knowledge, Belief and Truth
  • POLS 101 American Government and Politics
  • or POLS 322 American Constitutional Law: The Federal System
  • or POLS 323 American Constitutional Law: Civil Rights and Liberties
  • LSLW 388 Persuasion & Advocacy (LSLW 200 is prereq.)
  • or LSLW 391 Women and the Law

TOTAL SEMESTER HOURS FOR THE PROGRAM:24 CREDITS

++ LSLW 200 is pre- or corequisite.

** LSLW 497 Pre-Law Seminar and Internship or LSPR 498 Coop. Ed.: Pre-Law Studies may be substituted. LSLW 200 & LSPR3 12 are pre-requisites. 2.75 GPA. Open only to Jrs.& Srs.



Note: Courses in the Pre-Law Studies Minor may also be counted toward the General Education Requirement (G.E.R.) where appropriate.


Professor Norma C. Connolly Phi Alpha Delta
Pre-Law Advising Professor Jack Baldwin Leclair
Revised March 2004