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Outside/Law-Related
Requirement for Legal Studies

Law-Related Requirement
for Legal Studies


All Legal Studies Majors are required to take two courses outside of Legal Studies that give a liberal arts perspective on law or the values that go into law. Listed below are the UMass courses that will automatically be accepted as fulfilling the requirement (we also have this list as a pdf file).  However we encourage students to look through the five college catalogs and if there is a course you think fits in with the tenor of this requirement, by all means email the description to Tami to see if she will accept it as a Law Related course. 

This requirement has the most flexibility of all our major requirements, and is the best one to try to fulfill If you are planning on going abroad, or taking a course at home/tranferring credits to major requirements. Note that acceptance of unlisted courses is not guaranteed, and you must get prior permission from Tami for it to count as one of your law-related courses.

If you are a double major and wish to use your law-related requirement for both majors, you must get permission to do so from BOTH majors. Legal Studies will let you double-count for Legal Studies requirements but if the other department does not also agree, you will not be able to double-count the course.

We have the the list of UMass courses in pdf
and also the Five College Courses in pdf.

UMass Courses
(* or ** are courses that we don't have numbers for)
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Afro-Am
190G Racism and the Amercian Experience
236 History of the Civil Rights Movement (HSU)
262 The Radical Tradition in American History
326 Black Women in U.S. History (HSU)
390E Race, Ethnicity and Gender in U.S. History (HSU)
** The Political Thought of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr.
** The Political Economy of Class and Race


Anthropology
205 Inequality and Oppression (SBU)
270 North American Indians (SBU)
336 Political Anthropology
525 Archaeology and Law

Communications
263 Introduction to Argumentation and Debate
287 Advertising as Social Communication
310 Persuasion Theory
412 Political Communication

Economics
144 Political Economy of Racism (SBU)
306 History of Economic Thought (HS)
330 Labor in the American Economy
331 Organization of American Industry
341 Labor Economics
348 The Political Economy of Women
362 American Economic History (HS)
** Law and Economics

Education
377 Introduction to Multicultural Education

English
279 Introduction to American Studies (ALU)
** Law & Literature in Antebellum America

Environmental Science
213 Introduction to Environmental Policy

GeoSciences
102 The Human Landscape (SB, G)
360 Economic Geography (SBU)
362 Land Use and Society (SB)
497S Indigenous Peoples and Conservation

History
154 Social Change and the 1960s (HSU)
170 Indian Peoples of North America (HSU)
200 New Approaches to History
303 The Later Middle Ages, 1100-1350
304 Late Middle Ages/Early Renaissance, 1300-1494
314 European Intellectual History of the 20th Century
361 American Revolutionary Era
362 The Early Republic
369 The U.S Since Pearl Harbor
372 American Thought and Culture I (HS)
373 American Thought and Culture II (HS)
374 U.S. Constitutional History I
375 U.S. Constitutional History II
381 The U.S. and the Cold War, 1917-1990
383 American Environmental History (HS)
388 U.S. Women's History to 1890 (HSU)
389 U.S. Women's History since 1890 (HSU)

Journalism
312 Journalism and Law
320 History of American Journalism (HS)
** Covering the Courts (4 cr)
** Murder the Wrote: Ethics and Crime Reporting
** Freedom of the Press

Judaic Studies
195A Anti-Semitism and Racism in Western Civilization
350 Jewish Law and Society (SBG)
365 Anti-Semitism in Historical Perspective (HSG)
375 The Jewish Experience in America (HSU)
390B World Jewry Since 1945
390G Women in Patriarchy (HSG)
391D Women, Gender, Judaism
393J American Jewish History
394A Major Issues in Contemporary Jewish Life and Culture

Labor Studies
190A Labor & the Global Economy
190B Labor & the Law: Justice at Work
201 Issues of Women and Work
280 Work and Labor in America

Philosophy
160 Introduction to Ethics (AT)
161 Problems in Social Thought (SB)
164 Medical Ethics (AT)
362 Approaches to Politics and Society
562 History of Ethics

Political Science
171 Introduction to Political Theory (SB)
181 Controversies in Public Policy
203 American Political Thought (HS)
219 State and Local Government (SB)
220 Public Administration
253 International Environmental Politics and Policies
280 Public Policy (SB)
** Race, Culture and American Politics
305 Congress and the Legislative Process
356 International Law
357 International Organizations
359 International Political Economy
360 Constitutional Law
361 Civil Liberties
362 Politics, Law, and Judicial Behavior
363 The Politics of Law
365 Bill of Right and Equal Protection
366 The First Amendment
367 The Supreme Court
373 Contemporary Political Theory
382 Environmental Policy
383 Land and Resource Policy
385 Comparative Public Policy
386 Criminal Justice Policy
393 Nationalism, Ethnicity and Identity in Politics

Psychology
217 Cruelty and Kindness: The Psychology of Good & Evil
308 Psychology of Women (SBU)
360 Social Psychology (SB)
365 Psychology of Aging (SB)
380 Abnormal Psychology
** Sem-Forensic Psych

Public Health
129 Health Care for All (SBU)

Resource Economics
262 Environmental Economics (SB)

Sociology
220 Sociology of American Culture
222 The Family (SBU)
224 Social Class Inequality (SBU)
225 Revolutions and Social Change (SBG)
241 Criminology
242 Drugs and Society (SB)
323 Sociology of Law
325 Political Sociology
340 Race Relations (SBU)
341 Social Welfare
342 Deviance and Social Order
344 Gender and Crime
345 Juvenile Delinquency
347 Corporate Deviance and Official Corruption
383 Gender and Society
392 Race, Class, Crime
395 Criminal Violence in America
481 Sociology of Mental Health
** Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Civil Rights Movement
** Social Just.: Citizen Participation as a Force in Community Affairs
** Punishment & Crime

Women’s Studies
201 Critical Perspectives in Women’s Studies (both sem)

 

We have the the list of UMass courses in pdf
and also the Five College Courses in pdf.

 

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