Minor in Law, Justice, and Society
Transcript Recognized Minor in Law, Justice, and Society
Study government, crime, and social justice from an interdisciplinary lens that includes the perspectives of Sociology, Philosophy, History, and Political Science.
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The transcript-recognized undergraduate academic minor must be completed in conjunction with an undergraduate degree at the University of Texas at Austin. For more information regarding the requirements for achieving a minor, including a comprehensive list of minors, please visit the Minors and Certificate Programs section of the Undergraduate Catalog.
Law, Justice, and Society Minor:
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Eighteen semester credit hours of coursework, consisting of:
| Requirements | Hours | |
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| Eighteen credit hours chosen from the following: 1 | ||
| Six hours of Government | 6 | |
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Constitutional Principles: Core Texts |
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| Human Rights Theories and Practices | ||
| United States Constitutional Development: Structures | ||
| United States Constitutional Development: Rights | ||
| Law and Society | ||
| Natural Law Theory | ||
| Global Justice | ||
| Law and Democracy in Latin America | ||
| The Classical Quest for Justice | ||
| Judicial Process and Behavior | ||
| Topics in Public Law (any topic) | ||
| Comparative Legal Systems | ||
| Human Rights and World Politics | ||
| Three hours of Sociology | 3 | |
| Capital Punishment in America | ||
| Punishment and Society | ||
| Juvenile Delinquency | ||
| Demography of Crime and Punishment | ||
| Policing | ||
| Criminology | ||
| Sociology of Criminal Justice | ||
| Social Psychology and the Law | ||
| Violence | ||
| Deviance | ||
| Nine hours from the following: | 9 | |
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Additional Government courses from the list above. |
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Additional Sociology courses from the list above. |
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| Race, Law, and United States Society | ||
| Seminar in Classical Studies (Topic 1: Roman Law) | ||
| Constitutional Interpretation | ||
| Topics in European Anthropology, Geography, History, and Sociology (Topic 4: Law and Society in Early Modern Europe) | ||
| Undergraduate Seminar in United States History (Topic 4: Constitutional Issues in the Twentieth-Century United States) | ||
| United States Constitutional History | ||
| Comparative Legal Systems | ||
| Political Philosophy (Topic 1: Natural Law Theory) | ||
| Philosophy of Law | ||
| Islamic Law | ||
| Sociology of Criminal Justice | ||
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| 1. Must include twelve hours of upper-division coursework, at least half of the courses must be completed in residence, and at least one course must be from outside the student's major. | ||
Questions about the Law, Justice, and Society Minor?
Send them to:
Krista Zampacorta
krista.zampacorta@austin.utexas.edu
(512) 232-7283
