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Note: Students majoring in PP&E and Law and Policy cannot minor in Law and Policy.
The Law and Policy minor provides students with a strong liberal arts foundation for the study of law and policy. The interdisciplinary nature of the program invites students to engage with a variety of different perspectives on the social and legal problems facing societies on local, state, national, and global levels. Students develop a deep appreciation for the complex relationships between law, society, culture, and politics. The coursework helps equip students for careers in a wide range of fields, including education, government, law, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), policy development, human rights work, and community and labor organizing.
LAW AND POLICY MINOR REQUIREMENTS (25 CREDITS)
All courses in the minor must be completed with a cumulative 2.0 GPA. Students may request to transfer up to 10 credits to be applied toward the courses fulfilling the minor.
TLAW I; Take one of the following:
- TLAW 150 Introduction to the American Legal System
- TLAW 215 Introduction to International Organizations
TLAW II; The following course must be taken:
- TCOM 454 Communications Law
- TCOM 465 Contemporary Free Speech Issues
- TCOM 481 Communication Regulation and Policy
- TCRIM 395 American Criminal Courts
- TCRIM437 Abolitionism and Revolutionary Criminology
- TECON 316 Current Issues in US Public Policy (formerly TECON 416)
- TECON 321 Economics of Education (formerly TECON 420)
- TECON 350 Law and Economics
- TECON 410 Economics of Public Policy
- TECON 418 Urban Problems and Policies
- TECON 450 Labor Economics and Policy
- TECON 470 Economics of Health and Health Policy
- TLAW 320 Constitutional Law: Institutional Powers and Constraints (formerly TPOLS 320)
- TLAW 339 Washington Environmental Law (formerly TEST 339)
- TLAW 348 Gender and Law (formerly TPOLS 348)
- TLAW 361 Constitutional Law: Rights and Liberties (formerly TPOLS 361)
- TLAW 367 Comparative Law and Courts (formerly TPOLS 367)
- TLAW 422 International Humanitarian Law (formerly TPOLS 422)
- TLAW 423 International Law (formerly TPOLS 423)
- TLAW 424 The Politics and Law of International Human Rights (formerly TPOLS 368)
- TLAW 438 Environmental Law (formerly TPOLS 438)
- TLAW 452 Race, Ethnicity, and Law (formerly TPOLS 452)
- TLAW 465 Law and Public Policy in the United States (formerly TPOLS 465)
- TLIT 433 Native American Literature and Federal Indian Law
- TPHIL 314 Philosophy of Crime and Punishment
- TPHIL 361 Ethics in Society
- TPHIL 414 Philosophy of Law
- TPOLS 322 War and Politics
- TPOLS 323 The Practice of War
- TPOLS 324 War, Activism, and Ethics
- TPOLS 340 Middle East Politics
- TPOLS 341 Conflict and Cooperation in the Middle East
- TPOLS 343 Community and Labor Organizing
- TPOLS 350 Politics and Film in the Middle East
- TPOLS 353 U.S. Congress
- TPOLS 355 Reproductive Politics, Law, and Justice
- TPOLS 360 Genocide
- TPOLS 371 The Politics of Security
- TPOLS 382 State Government
- TPOLS 400 The American Presidency
- TPOLS 451 Human Rights and the Use of Force
- TSOC 465 Asian and Asian American Laborers in the US: Citizenship, Immigrant Rights, and the Welfare State
Declare a minor by completing the Request to Declare/Change a Major or Minor form and submitting it to the Office of the Registrar. You must have earned a minimum of 45 credits and declared a major before declaring a minor. If you have any questions about this process, please see your advisor.
