Pre-Law Minor

The Pre-Law minor is an 18-hour interdisciplinary minor designed to prepare students for a post-graduate study of law. The Pre-Law minor consists of 6 hours of Constitutional Law courses and 12 hours of courses in the Study of Law in Other Contexts. Courses taken to fulfill requirements for a major (or another minor) can be applied towards completion of the Pre-Law minor. Courses to fulfill these requirements include:

Constitutional Law (6 hours)

POLS 3300	Development of the First Amendment
POLS 4321	American Constitutional Law
POLS 4322	The Law of Civil Liberties
POLS 4320	The Judicial System and Process

*any class not taken to fulfill the 6 hours of Constitutional Law courses can be used to fulfill the Study of Law in Other Contexts requirements

The Study of Law in Other Contexts (12 hours)

BLAW 3301	Business Law and Social Responsibility
BLAW 4310	Negotiation & Conflict Resolution
BLAW 4320	Employment Law
CMST 2335	Argumentation and Debate
CMST 3325	Persuasive Communication
CMST 4334	Political Communication
CRIJ 1310	Fundamentals of Criminal Law [TCCN: 1310]
CRIJ 3310	Ethical Issues in Criminal Justice
CRIJ 3320	Criminology
ENGL 3308	Writing Textual Analysis
MCOM 3318	Media Law and Ethics
PHIL 2303	Introduction to Logic [TCCN: PHIL 2303]
POLS 2320	The Study of Law
POLS 3321	Jurisprudence
POLS 4350	International Diplomacy, Law, and Organization
POLS 4360	American Political Thought

*no class can be used to fulfill the Constitutional Law requirements

Please note: Courses taken to fulfill requirements for a major (or another minor) can be applied towards completion of the Pre-Law minor. The Pre-Law minor allows a student to use one course to fulfill two degree requirements. This allows students to take other courses of interest to them. Students are reminded that a minimum of 120 credit hours of unique and unduplicated credits are needed to graduate.