Legal Studies Minor
(All colleges)
18 credits
| Code | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| Foundations of the American legal system | ||
| POL 221 | The American Legal System | 3 |
| Advocacy and methods of legal studies | ||
| Select six credits from the following: | 6 | |
| Debate | ||
| Argumentation | ||
| Community Advocacy and Social Change | ||
| Workplace Writing | ||
| Writing, Genre, and Style | ||
| Introduction to Writing and Rhetoric Studies | ||
| Introduction to Professional and Technical Writing | ||
| Introduction to Logic | ||
| Symbolic Logic | ||
| Strategic Political Communication | ||
| Theories of law | ||
| Select three credits from the following: | 3 | |
| Ethics and Meta-Ethics: Theory, Justification, and Objectivity | ||
| Social and Political Philosophy | ||
| Judicial Process 1 | ||
| Comparative Law 1 | ||
| International Law 1 | ||
| American Political Theory | ||
| Classical Political Theory | ||
| Modern and Contemporary Political Theory | ||
| Ethical Decision Making in Government | ||
| Areas and issues involving the law | ||
| Select six credits from the following: | 6 | |
| Justice, Injustice, and Activism | ||
| Feeding the Planet: Environmental Justice of our Food Systems | ||
| Americans, Global Parks, and Wilderness | ||
| Rural Livelihoods: Sustainability and the Environment in the Upper Midwest | ||
| Money and Crime | ||
| U.S. Reform Movements | ||
| Wisconsin History | ||
| Public Education in Wisconsin and America | ||
| Crime and Punishment in America | ||
| Human Rights and the Middle East | ||
| Government and Society | ||
| Judicial Process 1 | ||
| Politics of Mass Incarceration | ||
| Comparative Law 1 | ||
| International Law 1 | ||
| Constitutional Law I: Powers of Government | ||
| Constitutional Law II: The First Amendment | ||
| Constitutional Law III: Racial, Gender and Targeted Group Discrimination | ||
| Constitutional Law IV: Rights of the Accused | ||
| Constitutional Law V: Right to Life | ||
| Constitutional Law VI: Criminal Procedure | ||
| Constitutional Law VII: Administrative Law | ||
| Constitutional Law VIII: 1787 and Original Intent | ||
| Psychology and Law | ||
| Public Personnel Law and Administration | ||
| Recent Court Decisions Impacting Public Law and Administration | ||
| Law and Society | ||
| Surveillance and Society | ||
| Criminology | ||
| Corrections and Penology | ||
| Criminal Justice | ||
| Sociopharmacology | ||
| Victimology | ||
| Restorative Justice | ||
| Human Rights Policing | ||
| Race, Gender, and Crime | ||
| Total Credits | 18 | |
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POL 306 Judicial Process (3 cr.), POL 335 Comparative Law (3 cr.), and POL 345 International Law (3 cr.) may be counted toward the "Areas and Issues Involving the Law" requirement if they are not used to satisfy the "Theories of Law" requirement.
- At least 12 credits must be at or above the 300-level.
- A maximum of three credits may be double counted toward the fulfillment of a political science or public administration major or minor.