Students in the legal studies minor are not required to follow major requirements such as taking courses in each thematic area, the philosophy (ethics) requirement, or a senior seminar course. This program does not have a letter grade policy.
Any five 5-credit courses approved for the LGST major.
5-credit courses crosslisted as LGST courses will also count toward this requirement. Students should contact the department if they wish to count independent study toward this requirement.
| ANTH 110C
/LGST 112
| California Pasts | 5 |
| ANTH 126
/LGST 126C
| Contraband: Shadow Economies and the Law | 5 |
| ANTH 130C | Politics and Culture in China | 5 |
| ANTH 138
/LGST 138
| Political Anthropology | 5 |
| ANTH 142
/LGST 142
| Anthropology of Law | 5 |
| ANTH 148
/FMST 148
| Gender and Global Development | 5 |
| ANTH 187 | Cultural Heritage in Colonial Contexts | 5 |
| ANTH 187B | Cultural Resource Management | 5 |
| ART 172 | Public Art: Memory, Landscape, and Artist as Activist | 5 |
| ART 181
/LGST 181
| Art, Power & Politics | 5 |
| ECON 128
/LGST 128
| Poverty and Public Policy | 5 |
| ECON 160A
/LGST 160A
| Industrial Organization | 5 |
| ECON 162
/LGST 162
| Legal Environment of Business | 5 |
| ECON 169
/LGST 169
| Economic Analysis of the Law | 5 |
| ECON 183
/LGST 183
| Women in the Economy | 5 |
| ENVS 130B
/LGST 130B
| Justice and Sustainability in Agriculture | 5 |
| ENVS 140
/LGST 140E
| National Environmental Policy | 5 |
| ENVS 144
/POLI 179
| Global Climate Change Politics | 5 |
| ENVS 147 | Global Environmental Justice | 5 |
| ENVS 149
/LGST 149
| Environmental Law and Policy | 5 |
| ENVS 150
/LGST 150A
| Coastal and Marine Policy | 5 |
| ENVS 151
/LGST 151A
| Environmental Assessment | 5 |
| ENVS 152
/POLI 170
| International Environmental Politics | 5 |
| ENVS 165
/LGST 165A
| Sustainable Water Systems | 5 |
| ENVS 179 | Environmental Interpretation | 5 |
| FMST 112
/POLI 112
| Women and the Law | 5 |
| FMST 194O
/CRES 190O
| The Politics of Gender and Human Rights | 5 |
| GCH 186 | Global Health Politics | 5 |
| HIS 110B | Revolutionary America, 1740-1815 | 5 |
| HIS 110D | The Civil War Era | 5 |
| HIS 121B | African American History, 1877 to the Present | 5 |
| LALS 194X | Extractivism and Socio-Environmental Conflicts in the Americas | 5 |
| LIT 168A | The Culture of Islamic Law | 5 |
| LIT 168B | Islamic Law and Society | 5 |
| LGST 107 | Toleration, Speech, and Hate | 5 |
| LGST 108 | Gender, Sexuality, and Law | 5 |
| LGST 109 | Legal Theory | 5 |
| LGST 111B
/POLI 111B
| Civil Liberties | 5 |
| LGST 111C | The First Amendment | 5 |
| LGST 114 | Jews, Anti-Semitism, and the American Legal System | 5 |
| LGST 115 | Law and the Holocaust | 5 |
| LGST 116
/POLI 116
| Comparative Law | 5 |
| LGST 117 | Sports, Law, and Politics | 5 |
| LGST 118 | Law and Literature | 5 |
| LGST 124 | Government Secrecy | 5 |
| LGST 125 | History of the U.S. Penal Culture | 5 |
| LGST 130 | Inequality and Law | 5 |
| LGST 131 | Wildlife, Wilderness, and the Law | 5 |
| LGST 133
/POLI 133
| Law of Democracy | 5 |
| LGST 137 | International Environmental Law and Policy | 5 |
| LGST 139 | War Crimes | 5 |
| LGST 146 | Philosophy of Law | 5 |
| LGST 148
/ENVS 148
| Cites, Urban Planning, and the Law | 5 |
| LGST 150 | Children and the Law | 5 |
| LGST 152 | Courts and Litigation | 5 |
| LGST 153 | Immigration, Citizenship, and Law | 5 |
| LGST 154 | The Legal Profession | 5 |
| LGST 155 | Topics in American Legal History: Making of American Constitutionalism | 5 |
| LGST 156 | Administrative Law and Challenges of Regulation | 5 |
| LGST 157 | Political Jurisprudence | 5 |
| LGST 158
/POLI 158
| Law and Politics of Memory | 5 |
| LGST 159 | Property and the Law | 5 |
| LGST 161 | Intellectual Property | 5 |
| LGST 173
/POLI 173
| Disability, Law, & Politics | 5 |
| LGST 185
/POLI 180
| Internship/Field Seminar: Experiences in Law, Politics, and Policy | 5 |
| LGST 188A
/OAKS 188A
| Introduction to the Legal Profession and Legal Aid Work | 2 |
| OAKS 188B
/LGST 188B
| Legal Field Practice: Professional Skills and Ethics | 3 |
| PHIL 126 | Philosophy of Social Sciences | 5 |
| PHIL 100D
/LGST 140P
| History of Ethics | 5 |
| PHIL 143 | Applied Ethics: Ethics Bowl | 5 |
| PHIL 144
/LGST 144
| Topics in Social and Political Philosophy | 5 |
| PHIL 153
/LGST 143
| Philosophy of Race | 5 |
| POLI 102 | Doing Political Research | 5 |
| POLI 103 | Feminist Interventions | 5 |
| POLI 105A
/LGST 105A
| Ancient Political Thought | 5 |
| POLI 105B
/LGST 105B
| Early Modern Political Thought | 5 |
| POLI 105C
/LGST 105C
| Modern Political Thought | 5 |
| POLI 105D
/LGST 105D
| Contemporary Political Theory: Modernity and its Discontents | 5 |
| POLI 110
/LGST 110
| Law and Social Issues | 5 |
| POLI 111A
/LGST 111A
| Constitutional Law | 5 |
| POLI 120A
/LGST 120A
| Congress, President, and the Court in American Politics | 5 |
| POLI 120B
/LGST 120B
| Society and Democracy in American Political Development | 5 |
| POLI 120C
/LGST 120C
| State and Capitalism in American Political Development | 5 |
| POLI 121
/LGST 121
| Racism & Justice in America | 5 |
| POLI 132
/LGST 132
| California Water Law and Policy | 5 |
| POLI 134
/LGST 134
| Congress: Representation and Legislation | 5 |
| POLI 151
/LGST 151
| Politics of Law | 5 |
| POLI 160B
/LGST 160B
| International Law | 5 |
| POLI 165
/LGST 166
| Global Organization | 5 |
| POLI 167
/LGST 167
| Politics of International Trade | 5 |
| POLI 175
/LGST 175
| Human Rights | 5 |
| POLI 182
/LGST 182
| The Power to Punish | 5 |
| POLI 184
/LGST 184
| Shariah and Political Thinking: Law and Politics in Modern Islamic Thought | 5 |
| PSYC 114 | Human Development as a Cultural Process | 5 |
| PSYC 140M | Legitimizing (In)Equality: Attitudes, Beliefs, and Social Policy | 5 |
| PSYC 147A | Psychology and Law | 5 |
| PSYC 147B | Psychology and Law | 5 |
| PSYC 153 | The Psychology of Poverty and Social Class | 5 |
| SOCY 117E | Migrant Europe | 5 |
| SOCY 122
/LGST 122
| The Sociology of Law | 5 |
| SOCY 127
/LGST 127
| Drugs in Society | 5 |
| SOCY 128C
/LGST 128C
| Social History of Democracy, Anarchism, and Indigenism | 5 |
| SOCY 128I
/LGST 128I
| Race and Law | 5 |
| SOCY 128J
/LGST 128J
| The World Jury on Trial | 5 |
| SOCY 128M
/LGST 128M
| International Law and Global Justice | 5 |
| SOCY 185 | Environmental Inequality | 5 |
| SPAN 130
/LGST 130A
/SPAN 6/SPHS 6 | Spanish for the Legal Profession | 5 |