Pre-Law Certificate Requirements

Pre-Law Certificate Requirements

The requirements of the certificate are 24 hours from three groupings:

• PSCI 271 Introduction to Law (2)
• LAW 496 Pre-Law Internship (4) or Major Department 496 Internship (4)

Group 2 - Law-Related Elective Courses(From at least two departments, ten hours total)

• B EC 352 Business Law (2)
• IR 372 International Law (2)
• PHIL 318 Philosophy of Law (2)
• PSCI 341 Church & State (2)
• PSCI 348 American Political Thought (4)
• PSCI 381 Constitutional Law (4)
• PSCI 387 Law and Religion (4)
• SOC 367 Crime and Delinquency (4)

Group 3 - Supporting Elective Courses(From at least two departments, one of which is not elected under Law-Related Courses, eight hours total)

• COMM 252 Argumentation and Debate (4)
• COMM 353 Advanced Speech Performance (4)
• COMM 362 Group Dynamics (2)
• COMM 363 Persuasion (4)
• B EC 226 or 227 Principles of Accounting 1 or 2 (4)
• B EC 328x Business Ethics (2)
• ENGW 214 Rhetorical Writing (2)
• HIST 351 or 352 American History (4)
• HIST 377 British History to 1688 (4)
• HIST 455 American Urban History (4)
• HIST 483 History of Christianity in North America (4)
• PHIL 494-3 Ethical Theory (4)
• PSCI 135 American Politics and Government (4)
• PSCI 345 Between Athens and Jerusalem: Classical and Medieval Political Thought (4)
• PSCI 346 Renaissance and Modern Political Philosophy (4)
• SOC 337 Racial and Ethnic Relations (4)
• SOC 356 The Family (4)
• SOC 376 Sociological Theory (4)
• LAW 496. Pre-Law Internship (4)