Premajor Requirements (9 credit hours)

• PS 101: American Politics
• LJ 201: Introduction to Law and Justice
• PS 210: Intro to Comparative Politics OR PS 230: Intro to International Relations

Major Requirements (42 hours)

Core Component (9 credit hours)

• LJ 301: Rights and Equality
• PS 360: Politics of Law and Courts
• LJ 499: Research Capstone

Law and Courts Component (12 credit hours, with no more than 9 hours from any non-LJ prefix)

• PS 363: Criminal Courts and Process in the US
• PS 365: Comparative Judicial Politics
• PS 382: Representation
• PS 385: Bureaucratic Politics
• PS 410: European Union
• PS 436: International Organization. Pre-req: PS 230
• PS 437: Dynamics of International Law. Pre-req: PS 230 or PS 360
• PS 463: Judicial Politics. Pre-req: PS 360
• PS 465: Constitutional Law. Pre-req: PS 360
• PS 466: Sports, Politics and Law. Pre-req: PS 360
• PS 476: Legislative Process
• PS 566: Constitutional Interpretation
• SOC 437: Sociology of Law. Pre-req: SOC 339 or 6 hours of social science
• SOC 439: Special Topics: Crime, Law, and Deviance. Pre-req: 6 hours of social science
• LJ 391: Special Topics
• LJ 399: Law and Justice Internship
• Any LJ prefix course 400 or above

Justice and Rights Component (6 credit hours)

• PS 383: Cheating, Crime, and Corruption
• PS 381: Human Rights
• PS 461: Civil Liberties. Pre-req: PS 360
• PS 492: Subtitle: Social and Political Movements
• PS 471/AAS 471: Race, Ethnicity, and Politics
• SOC 235/AAS 235: Inequalities in Society
• SOC 338: Family Violence
• SOC 339: Intro to Criminology
• SOC 344: Social Movements
• SOC 446: Mass Incarceration. Pre-req: 6 hours of social science

Analysis and Logic Component (6 credit hours)

• PS 372: Political Analysis
• One of:
  • PHI 120: Intro to Logic
  • PHI 320: Symbolic Logic
  • STA 210: Intro to Statistical Reasoning

Law and Letters Component (9 credit hours)

• ENG 168: All that Speak of Jazz: An Intellectual Inquiry into Jazz and Democracy
• ENG 191: Literature and the Arts of Citizenship
• ENG 335: Topics in Literature and the Law
• ENG 336: Democracy’s Diverse Stories
• ENG 389: Law and Film
• PHI 305: Healthcare Ethics
• PHI 330: Ethics
• PHI 334: Business Ethics
• PHI 335: The Individual & Society
• PHI 336: Environmental Ethics
• PHI 337: Intro to Legal Philosophy
• PHI 530: Ethical Theory. Pre-req: PHI 330
• PHI 535: Social and Political Philosophy. Pre-req: PHI 335
• PHI 537: Philosophy of Law. Pre-req: PHI 337
• WRD 320: Rhetorical Theory and History. Pre-req: Core Composition and Comm I-II
• WRD 322: Rhetoric and Argument
• WRD 418: Legal Writing
• WRD/ENG 301: Style for Writers. Pre-req: Core Composition and Comm I-II 
• WRD/ENG 405: Editing English Prose. Pre-req: WRD 301 or 306
• ANT 310: Cross-Cultural Law and Justice
• HIS 108: United States Before 1876
• HIS 109: United States After 1876
• HIS 243: Latinx History
• HIS 260/AAS 260: African American history Before 1865
• HIS 261: African American history After 1865
• HIS 332: Crime in History
• HIS 417: US Social Movements Since 1789
• HIS 509: Roman Law
• HIS 510: Medieval Law
• HIS 587: The Civil Rights Movement
• AAS 200: Introduction to African American Studies
• CHE 250: Forensic Science on Television
• AIS 410: Theology and Law in Islam
• CLA 509: Roman Law

Distribution Requirements

Students may not apply to their LJ major more than 18 credit hours that have already been applied to another major or minor program.