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 “Long� 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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