UTexas

Law, Justice, and Society Minor

Total Hours Required: 18

Requirements

Requirements are listed in the table below. Additional requirements may follow the table, so be sure to read the entire page. Some required courses listed below may also satisfy General Education requirements, including Core Curriculum. Students should also review the University's Undergraduate Minor and Certificate Requirements and Policies.

Government
Hours chosen from:6
Constitutional Principles: Core Texts
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
Sociology
Hours chosen from: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
Additional Coursework
Hours chosen from:9
Additional Government courses from the list above.
Additional Sociology courses from the list above.
Race, Law, and United States Society
Roman Law
Constitutional Interpretation
Law and Society in Early Modern Europe
United States Constitutional History
Comparative Legal Systems
Natural Law Theory
Philosophy of Law
Islamic Law
Sociology of Criminal Justice
Total Hours18

Additional Requirements and Policy

  • At least 12 upper-division hours are required.
  • At least 9 hours for the minor must be taken in residence.
  • One course must be in a field outside the student's major.