The Legal Studies Minor

This interdisciplinary minor focusing on law and justice would add breadth and context to help students understand our society and might add to the undergraduate experience of students in just about any major.

Minor Requirements for Fall 2023 and thereafter.  This is a five course sequence (4 credits each), totaling 20 credits:

  • Foundations in Law and Justice course;
  • a Legal Studies course at the 300-level;
  • Three courses from this list of options:
  1. Juvenile Delinquency, or Definitions of Normality;
  2. Topics in Media Law and Policy, or Legal Environment of Business;
  3. Philosophical Problems in the Law;
  4. Constitutional Law: Civil Rights and Liberties, or Supreme Court in U.S. Politics;
  5. Japanese Americans & Mass Incarceration, or Policing the Borderlands

Minor Requirements for those students who enrolled in the minor before Summer, 2023, when we revised the curriculum. This is a six course sequence (3 credits each), totaling 18 credits:

  1. Foundations in Law and Justice course;
  2. Choose one: Legal Environment of Business I;  Juvenile Delinquency; Law and Media;
  3. Choose two Legal Studies courses at the 300-level and above;
  4. Choose two:  Courses tagged with a Legal Studies minor attribute: dozens of classes spread across Ithaca College.
     

True freedom requires the rule of law and justice, a judicial system in which the rights of some are not secured by the denial of rights to others.
 

Jonathan Sacks