| Program
Name: |
Legal Studies Program |
| Director: |
Professor Herbert M. Krtizer
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| Program
Address: |
Legal Studies Program
8137 Social Science
1180 Observatory Drive
Madison, WI 53706
608/262-2083
Associate Director: Irene B. Katele
E-mail: lsp@ssc.wisc.edu
Web site: www.ssc.wisc.edu/lsls/lsphome.html
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| Program
Type: |
Major |
| Program
Status: |
The University of Wisconsin-Madison
Legal Studies Program is an undergraduate, interdisciplinary
major program. |
| Statement
of Intellectual Structure: |
| "The University of Wisconsin-Madison
Legal Studies Program major provides a liberal education
across traditional disciplines, focusing on legal
process, the law, legal institutions, and how they
operate in society. The courses expose students to
the many facets of the law as a social phenomenon—its
evolution, its function, and its effects. This major
is not a pre-law program, since students will be exposed
to a broad social science perspective which is unlike
the professional program encountered in law school.
It is, however, a suitable program for pre-law students
and for those who plan to concentrate in law-related
study to prepare for public service careers or graduate
training." |
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| Program
Curricular Organization: |
Presently students must take:
- one required course;
- two methods/statistics courses;
- five elective courses from four of approximately twelve
participating discipline areas; and
- either two elective courses from a fifth discipline
area or two semesters for the writing of a senior thesis.
Starting in the Fall of 2003, a new curriculum structure
will take effect for students who declare a major in Legal
Studies. The new curriculum is organized around a set of
five theme-oriented categories ("Theme Groups"). Under this
new curriculum, prospective majors must take one of two
Gateway courses prior to declaring the major. Declared majors
then must take:
- one required course;
- a research design course;
- a statistics course;
- two courses from those listed in the "Legal Institutions"
Theme Group;
- four courses distributed among at least three of the
other Theme Groups, which include Processes of Legal
Order & Disorder; Law & Social Structure; Law & Culture;
and Law & Theory; and
- either two additional courses from the five Theme
Groups or two semesters for the writing of a senior
thesis.
In addition to these specific course/distribution requirements,
students must take at least one course that has a comparative
focus and exposes students to legal systems outside the
United States.
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| Required
Courses: |
See above
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| Sample
of Elective Courses: |
- Law, Politics, and Society
- The Legal Profession
- Topics in Legal Studies and the Social Science
- Women and the Law
- Topics in Legal Studies and the Humanities
- Law and Society of Ancient Athens
- Advanced Seminar in Legal Studies
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| Experiential
Component: |
None |
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Please e-mail us
with any changes or corrections. |
