Pre-Law Course Suggestions

Pre-Law Course Suggestions

While there are no specific majors or prerequisites required for law school, there are many courses to choose from at Âé¶¹¹ÙÍø that may help prepare students prior to attending. 

Child Advocacy Studies

  • CAST 301: Introduction to Child Advocacy Studies

Communication, Media and Theatre

  • CMTC 101: Public Speaking
  • CMTC 202: Voice and Diction
  • CMTC 210: Advanced Public Speaking
  • CMTC 214: Business and Professional Comm.
  • CMTC 310: Persuasion
  • CMTC 313: Communication, Gender and Identity
  • CMTC 317: Intercultural Communication 
  • CMTC 319: Conflict Communication
  • CMTM 265: Mass Media & Society 
  • CMTM 365: Contemporary Issues in Mass Media
  • CMTM 379: Media Law and Ethics
  • CMTT 203: Voice for the Performer
  • CMTT 221: Acting 1

English

  • ENGL 377: Argumentative Prose

Geography and Environmental Studies

  • GES 319: Environmental and Natural Resources Policy
  • GES 321: Environmental Impact Assessment
  • GES 329: Sustainable Energy Policy
  • GES 350: Climate Change: International Policy and Politics
  • GES 360: Environmental Justice and Activism

History

  • HIST 308: Human Rights in History, Literature and Law
  • HIST 309: History of Disability
  • HIST 329B: African American History and Race Relations since 1865
  • HIST 329C: Documenting the “Longâ€� Civil Rights Movement
  • HIST 335: History of Crime and Violence in America
  • HIST 346: Environmental History

Justice Studies

  • JUST 201: Introduction to the Criminal Justice System (highly recommended)
  • JUST 301: Theories of Justice and Social Change
  • JUST 319: Latinos and the Criminal Justice System
  • JUST 322: Women, Justice and the Law
  • JUST 323: Introduction to Child Advocacy Studies
  • JUST 328: Social Justice and LGBTQ Issues
  • JUST 330: Legal Research and Bibliography in Criminal Law
  • JUST 331: Law and Racism in America
  • JUST 333: Community Law
  • JUST 334: Criminal Law and Procedure
  • JUST 335: Legal Process I
  • JUST 336: Postmodern Law and Criminology
  • JUST 338: Introduction to Human Rights
  • JUST 340: Sociology of Law
  • JUST 371: U.S. Immigration Policy and Human Rights in the Americas

Philosophy

  • PHIL 201: Logic (highly recommended)
  • PHIL 213: Business Ethics
  • PHIL 215: Ethics
  • PHIL 303: Logic II
  • PHIL 313: Ethical Theory
  • PHIL 315: Medical Ethics
  • PHIL 348: Computer Ethics and Public Policy
  • PHIL 362: Philosophy of Law
  • PHIL 364: Critical Race Theory
  • PHIL 365: Environmental Ethics
  • PHIL 366: Feminist Ethics

Political Science

  • PSCI 216: American National Government
  • PSCI 309A: Moot Court and Appellate Advocacy (highly recommended)
  • PSCI 311: The American Judiciary and the Judicial Process in American Government
  • PSCI 319: Politics of Law
  • PSCI 320: Constitutional Law (highly recommended)
  • PSCI 332: Latinos and the Law
  • PSCI 333: Immigration, Ethnicity and Citizenship
  • PSCI 341: Public Administration
  • PSCI 380: International Law

Sociology

  • SOC 250: Sociology of Deviance
  • SOC 304: Sociology of Law
  • SOC 309: Sociology of Racism
  • SOC 316: Race and Ethnic Relations
  • SOC 338: Environmental Sociology
  • SOC 344: African America Women: Feminism, Race and Resistance
  • SOC 362: Identity and Social Policy

Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies

  • WGS 312: Women and Global Human Rights

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