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Major and Minor Degree Requirements

Please note that requirements listed on this page are the most up-to-date requirements. Your Advisement Report on MyUCSC is still in the process of being reconfigured and will not reflect these requirements. 

Students must receive passing grades (equivalent to C or better) in order to count the courses towards the major/minor.

Major Requirements - 11 courses

Students will take a total of 11 Legal Studies courses - 2 lower-division and 9 upper-division courses.*

  • Additionally, students may petition up to 3 course substitutions for the Legal Studies Major. The course must be relevant to Legal Studies. Use this form to request one course substitution. Students will need to submit a new form for each course substitution request. 

*Note: Each course can be used to satisfy only one requirement (for example, LGST 111A cannot satisfy both the Constitutional Law requirement [bullet point B] and Public Law & Institution Core Course requirement [bullet point D]).

 

 A. Lower Division Course Requirements - 2 courses total (LGST10 + 1 of the following Phil courses)

  • LGST 10 Introduction to Legal Process
  • PHIL 7 - Elementary Logic, or
    PHIL 9 - Introduction to Logic, or
    PHIL 22 - Introduction to Ethical Theory, or
    PHIL 24 - Introduction to Ethics: Contemporary Moral Issues, or
    PHIL 27 - Business Ethics

B. Constitutional Law* (choose one of the following courses):

  • LGST 111A Constitutional Law or
  • LGST 111B Civil Liberties or
  • LGST 111C Issues in Constitutional Law

C. Global Law* (choose one of the following courses): 

  • LGST 116 Comparative Law or
  • LGST 160B International Law or
  • LGST 175 Human Rights

D. Core Course Requirements - 6 courses total (1 course from each bulleted thematic area [1 Theory; 1 Public Law and Institutions; 1 Law and Society]; remaining 3 courses from any bulleted thematic area):

E. Comprehensive Requirement (choose one of the following options):

  • LGST 195AB Senior Thesis (2-3 quarters) or
  • LGST 196 Senior Capstone (1 quarter)

 *Each course can only be used to satisfy one requirement at a time

Minor Requirements - 6 courses

To complete a minor in Legal Studies, students must take LGST 10 (pass with a grade of a C or better) and 5 upper-division Legal Studies core courses (numbered 101-190) of their choosing.

Additionally, students may petition 1 course substitution for the Legal Studies minor. Course must be relevant to Legal Studies. Students can use this form to submit a course substitution request.

  • Lgst 10
  • Lgst Upper-div #1
  • Lgst Upper-div #2
  • Lgst Upper-div #3
  • Lgst Upper-div #4
  • Lgst Upper-div #5

 

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