In addition to their majors, some students may wish to pursue courses that focus on the law and related matters. The Pre-Law Studies Certificate Program is an interdisciplinary program designed to provide a concentration of course work that supports the future study and practice of law.
The Pre-Law Studies Certificate Program requires students to take 24 hours of courses from the following three groupings:*
Required Core Courses
6 hours
- Introduction to Law
- An internship with a practicing legal professional
Law-Related Elective Courses
10 hours from at least two departments:
- Business Law
- International Law
- Philosophy of Law
- American Political Thought
- Constitutional Law
- Law and Religion
- Crime and Delinquency
Supporting Elective Courses
8 hours from at least two departments, one of which is not elected under the Law-Related Elective Courses:
- Argumentation and Debate
- Advanced Speech Performance
- Group Dynamics
- Persuasion
- Principles of Accounting I or II
- Business Ethics
- Public Choice and Constitutional Economics
- Discursive Writing
- American History
- British History to 1688
- American Urban History
- History of Christianity in North America
- Introduction to Logic
- Ethical Theory
- American Politics and Government
- Between Athens and Jerusalem: Classical and Medieval Political Thought
- Renaissance and Modern Political Philosophy
- Racial and Ethnic Relations
- The Family
- Sociological Theory
*For full details, see the description of the Pre-Law Studies Certificate Program in the Catalog of Wheaton College.