| Program Name: |
Legal Studies |
| Director: |
Norm Rosenberg |
| Program Address: |
Macalester College
1600 Grand Avenue
Saint Paul, MN 55105-1899
651/696-6225
E-mail: rosenbergn@macalester.edu |
| Program Type: |
Minor |
| Program Status: |
Macalester offers an interdisciplinary program (reorganized
in 1993) leading to a minor in Legal Studies. The minor is available to students who
complete a major or minor in one of the affiliated departments -- philosophy, psychology,
political science, sociology, or history. |
| Statement of Intellectual Structure: |
| "This minor is designed to give students a broad, yet structured,
academic grounding in interdisciplinary approaches, within the liberal arts, to the study
of law and legal culture." |
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| Program Curricular Organization: |
Students take five courses (no more than two from any
affiliated department) dealing with the relationship of law to history, culture, politics,
society and personality, as well as a required senior year, team-taught seminar in Legal
Studies. |
| Required Courses: |
Legal Studies Seminar
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| Sample of Elective Courses: |
Special Topics in Legal History
Philosophy of Law
Ethics
U.S. Civil Rights and Liberties
International Law
Contemporary Legal Practices
Special Topics in Psychology and Law
Deviance and Social Control
Special Topics in Sociology of Law
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| Experiential Component: |
Internships in legal settings are available for credit, but
not required. |
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with any changes or corrections. |
