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All Courses are Three Credits unless Noted Otherwise

Group I. REQUIRED COURSES (18 credits)

JURI 200 Essentials of Jurisprudence...........................3
JURI 210 United States Legal Process and Systems Or...3 LSLW 200 Introduction to Law....................................3
JURI 324/PHIL 324 Legal Reasoning .........................3
JURI 495 Senior Research Seminar in Jurisprudence I.....3
JURI 496 Senior Research Seminar in Jurisprudence II....3
LSLW 312 Legal Research..........................................3

Group II. MAJOR ELECTIVES (6 credits)

Students must include two courses from the following list of major electives:

JURI 316 Theories of Conflict......................................3

JURI 390 Independent Study in urisprudence.................3
JURI 418 Seminar in Comparative Legal Systems...........3
JURI 474 Human Rights Law.......................................3

JURI 476 Feminist Jurisprudence..................................3

JURI 499 Selected Topics in Jurisprudence (may be repeated once)...........................................................3

LSLW 362 Legal Writing..............................................3
LSLW 388 Persuasion & Advocacy.................................3
POLI 101 American Government and Politics..................3
POLS 320 Law in Society: Civil Law..............................3

POLS 322 American Constitutional Law: Federal System..3

POLS 323 American Constitutional Law: Civil Rights and Liberties....................................................................3

POLS 325 U.S. Immigration: Law and Politics.................3

POLS 403 Globalization and Security.............................3

POLS 430 International Law........................................3

Group III. ELECTIVE COURSES (9 credits)

Select a total of three courses,  one course from each area (A, B, and C) for a total of 9 credits.

A. Philosophy

PHIL 106 Logic..........................................................3
PHIL 206 Philosophical Issues in Law and Justice...........3
PHIL 210 Ethics.........................................................3
PHIL 264 Critical Reasoning and Arguments...................3
PHIL 316 Philosophy of Law.........................................3

ENWR 204 Advanced Expository Writing........................3
ENWR 205 Creative Non-Fiction Prose...........................3

GNHU 182 English Vocabulary: Classical Roots...............3
GNHU 202 General Humanities II (from 1400)................3
GNHU 282 Roman Civilization......................................3
LNGN  250 Language of Propaganda..............................3
LNGN  290 Language of the Law...................................3

LSLW  473 Seminar in Law and Literature......................3

C. History and Social Sciences

HIST 212 Social and Cultural History of the U.S..............3

HIST 218 Politcal History of the United States...............3

HIST 411 Intellectual History of the United States..........3
POLS 307 American Political Thought............................3

POLS 317 The American Congress.................................3

POLS 324 American Public Policy..................................3
PSYC 248 Psychology and Law.....................................3
SOCI 420 Sociology of Law..........................................3

TOTAL HOURS: 33 CREDITS