Minor in Law, Justice and Society

This minor is available to students registered in a 120 credit hour Bachelor of Computer Science, Bachelor of Applied Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Commerce, Bachelor of Community Design, Bachelor of Informatics, Bachelor of Management, Bachelor of Music, Bachelor of Science and Bachelor of Science (Medical Science) program.

The requirements are as for the appropriate degree program with completion of the following courses:

Plus 18 credit hours from the approved list below, including at least three credit hours from your choice of three different disciplines (e.g. history, philosophy, political science, sociology, contemporary studies, or international development studies).

  • CLAS 3434.03/PHIL 3434.03/POLI 3434.03: The Ancient Origins of Political Thought: From Homer to Aristotle
  • COMM 2603.03: Legal Aspects of Business 
  • CTMP 2203.03/HSTC 2206.03: Bio-Politics: Human Nature in Contemporary Thought
  • CTMP 3121.03: Genocide: Contemporary Perspectives
  • CTMP 3321.03: Representations of the Holocaust: Bearing Witness
  • CTMP 3411.03: Human Experiments
  • CTMP 4125.03: Hannah Arendt: Terror, Politics, Thought
  • ECON 2212.03: Law and Economics
  • ECON 4360.03/PHIL 4361.03: Ethics, Justice, and Economics
  • EMSP 2480.03/HIST 2750.03: The Pirate and Piracy
  • EMSP 3430.03: Theories of Punishment: Retribution and Social Control in Early Modern Thought
  • ENVS 3200.03: Introduction to Environmental Law
  • HIST 2006.03: The Atlantic World 1450-1650
  • HIST 2007.03: The Atlantic World 1650-1800
  • HIST 2715.03: Locked Up: A Global History of Incarceration
  • HIST 3053.03: Fascist and National Socialist Movements in Europe, 1900-1945
  • HIST 3056.03: The Holocaust
  • HIST 3101.03: Punishment, Crime and the Courts in Early Modern England
  • HIST 3226.03: Law and Justice in Canadian Society, to 1890
  • HIST 3227.03: Criminal Law, Crime and Punishment in Canadian Society, 1890 - present
  • HIST 4004.03: Crime and Society in Post-Conquest England
  • HIST 4401.03: State Violence, Communal Conflict and Criminality in Modern South Africa
  • HIST 4404.03: Crime and Punishment in Modern Africa
  • JOUR 3339.03 Ethics and Law for Journalists
  • LJSO 3000.03: Processes of Justice
  • LJSO 3500.03: Legal Research and Writing
  • MGMT 2200.0c: Fundamentals of the legal Environment of Management (on-line delivery)
  • MGMT 2805.03: Indigenous Governance
  • PHIL 2020.03: Legal Thinking
  • PHIL 2450.03: Democracy, Difference and Citizenship
  • PHIL 2475.03: Justice in Global Perspective
  • PHIL 2490.03: Social, Ethical and Professional Issues in Computer Science
  • PHIL 3106.03: Animal Ethics
  • PHIL 3211.03: Philosophy of Law
  • PHIL 3476.03: Liberalism and Global Justic
  • POLI 2210.03: Unity and Diversity: Dynamics of Canadian Federalism
  • POLI 2215.03: Canadian Aboriginal Politics
  • POLI 2220.03: Political Power and Partisan Politics
  • POLI 2230.03: Municipal Law and City Politics in Canada
  • POLI 2520.03: World Politics
  • POLI 3206.03: Constitutional Issues in Canadian Politics
  • POLI 3208.03: Canadian Provincial Policies
  • POLI 3378.03: US Constitutional Government & Politics
  • POLI 3426.03/GWST 3426.03: Sex and the State*
  • POLI 3505.03: Human Rights: Foundations
  • POLI 3510.03: Politics of Pandemics
  • POLI 3531.03: The UN in World Politics
  • POLI 3532.03: Model UN
  • POLI 3581.03: Diplomacy and Negotiations
  • POLI 4240.03: Policy Formation in Canada
  • POLI 4303.03: Human Rights: Political Issues
  • POLI 4390.03: Practicum in Public Policy: NGOs & Government Services
  • POLI 4403.03: Human Rights: Philosophical Issues
  • POLI 4481.03: Theories of Violence, Persecution and Genocide
  • POLI 4505.03: Human Rights: Legal Issues
  • PSYO 3224.03: Forensic Psychology
  • SOSA 2181.03: Explaining Crime and Criminal Behavior
  • SOSA 2182.03: Exploring Crime and Criminal Behaviour
  • SOSA 3185.03: Owning and Belonging: De-colonial Issues in Indigenous / Settler Knowledges, Rights and Authority
  • SOSA 3190.03: Social Movements
  • SOSA 3225.03: Culture, Rights, Power
  • SOSA 3260.03: Deviance
  • SOSA 3275.03: Crime and Public Policy
  • SOSA 3281.03: Youth Crime
  • SOSA 3283.03: Globalized Security and Justice
  • SOSA 3285.03: Sociology of Law
  • SOSA 3291.03: Corrections
  • SOSA 3295.03: Society and the Police
  • SOSA 4005.03: Issues in Social Justice and Inequality
  • SUST 4125.03: Conflict Negotiation and Sustainability

*fulfills the POLI requirement even if taken as GWST 3426.03

Contact Law, Justice and Society https://dal.ca/ljso for more information.