Majors in the approved degree may choose to further specialize their degree by adding a concentration in law. No concentration is required. The law concentration requires 17-18 credits, so students choosing a concentration would use their free electives to fulfill the concentration requirement. Concentration courses may double count with/fulfill major requirements.
Choose 6 of the following:
An introduction to how one becomes an attorney, what it is like to be an attorney, and the career options available to attorneys.
- Credits: 2.0
- Lec-Rec-Lab: (2-0-0)
- Semesters Offered: Spring, in even years
Examining the civil and criminal justice system to explain how law informs yet is shaped by political, economic, and social forces. This course covers issues such as individual rights, the jury system, tort law, legal reform movements and constitutional interpretation.
- Credits: 3.0
- Lec-Rec-Lab: (3-0-0)
- Semesters Offered: Fall
Applies legal and ethical principles to evolving computer technology. Explores current legal issues such as surveillance, privacy, free speech, crime, encryption, on line contracting, intellectual property and censorship, as well as legislative efforts to resolve these and other computing dilemmas.
- Credits: 3.0
- Lec-Rec-Lab: (3-0-0)
- Semesters Offered: Spring, in even years
- Restrictions: May not be enrolled in one of the following Class(es): Freshman
- Pre-Requisite(s): UN 1015 and (UN 1025 or Modern Language - 3000 level or higher)
Introduces the U.S. Constitution and how it has been interpreted by the Supreme Court over time. Explores historical, social and political consequences of major constitutional themes such as federalism, judicial review, and evolving view of individual rights and liberties.
- Credits: 3.0
- Lec-Rec-Lab: (3-0-0)
- Semesters Offered: Fall, in odd years
- Restrictions: May not be enrolled in one of the following Class(es): Freshman
- Pre-Requisite(s): UN 1015 and (UN 1025 or Modern Language - 3000 level or higher)
Seminar focused on the rights and liberties guaranteed by US Constitutional amendments. Students learn constitutional theory and interpretation on topics of privacy, speech, media, religion, criminal justice, and gender/ethnic equality. Constitutional Law I is not required.
- Credits: 3.0
- Lec-Rec-Lab: (3-0-0)
- Semesters Offered: Spring, in odd years
- Restrictions: May not be enrolled in one of the following Class(es): Freshman
- Pre-Requisite(s): UN 1015 and (UN 1025 or Modern Language - 3000 level or higher)
Explores criminal and social justice policies including policing and control of crimes involving violence, drugs, sexual offenses, and terrorism. Sentencing, effects of mass incarceration, and inequalities based on race and class will also be examined in student writing and debate.
- Credits: 3.0
- Lec-Rec-Lab: (3-0-0)
- Semesters Offered: Fall, in even years
- Pre-Requisite(s): UN 1015 and (UN 1025 or Modern Language - 3000 level or higher)
This course focuses on the histories, theories, and practices of environmental justice in local, national, and global contexts. Topics to be explored include environmental racism, industrial facility siting, sustainable development, as well as food, energy, and climate justice.
- Credits: 3.0
- Lec-Rec-Lab: (3-0-0)
- Semesters Offered: Spring, in even years
- Pre-Requisite(s): UN 1015 and (UN 1025 or Modern Language - 3000 level or higher)
This course focuses on concepts that are fundamental to energy policy: energy security and energy justice. It introduces students to the three main views of energy security (supply, demand, and energy services). In addition, the course provides a critical perspective of evaluating energy decision-making through the lenses of justice.
- Credits: 3.0
- Lec-Rec-Lab: (3-0-0)
- Semesters Offered: Fall, in odd years
- Pre-Requisite(s): UN 1015 and (UN 1025 or Modern Language - 3000 level or higher)
An intensive survey of the literature of 19th-20th century history of social thought, including the writings of Marx, Durkheim, Weber, and other prominent anthropologists, sociologists, and political philosophers.
- Credits: 3.0
- Lec-Rec-Lab: (3-0-0)
- Semesters Offered: Fall, in even years
- Restrictions: Must be enrolled in one of the following Class(es): Junior, Senior
- Pre-Requisite(s): UN 1015 and (UN 1025 or Modern Language - 3000 level or higher)
Provides an understanding of the legal basis of contracts and their enforcement in the areas of general contracts, contracts of commercial sales and of agency, and commercial paper.
- Credits: 3.0
- Lec-Rec-Lab: (3-0-0)
- Semesters Offered: Fall, Spring
Issues in political philosophy, such as the moral foundations of political systems, the proper relation between the individual and the state, and the justification of social institutions. Philosophers studied may include Plato, Aristotle, Machiavelli, Hobbes, Locke, Marx, de Tocqueville, Mill, Dewey, and Rawls.
- Credits: 3.0
- Lec-Rec-Lab: (0-3-0)
- Semesters Offered: Spring
- Pre-Requisite(s): UN 1015 and (UN 1025 or Modern Language - 3000 level or higher)