BA Required Courses and Electives

NOTE: Not all courses are offered every year. Please consult the Program website at http://www.dal.ca/LJSO for a list of currently offered courses. In the case of a discrepancy, the information on the timetable will be considered true.

Required courses (majors and honours)

• LAWS 2510.03: Introduction to Law I
• LAWS 2520.03: Introduction to Law II
• HIST 3226.03: Law and Justice in Canada to 1890 OR
  HIST 3227.03: Criminal Law, Crime and Punishment in Canadian Society, 1890-present
• PHIL 2020.03: Legal Thinking
• POLI 3505.03: Human Rights: Foundations
• LJSO 3000.03: Processes of Justice
• LJSO 3500.03: Legal Research and Writing [for Honours and Combined Honours only]
• LJSO 0400.00 and LJSO 4000.03: Honours Seminar in LJSO [for Honours and Combined Honours with LJSO as the Primary Subject only]

List of Approved Elective Courses

• CLAS 2365.03:Plato and the Case of Socrates: Philosophy on Trial
• 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 (*Distance*)
• CTMP 2203.03/HSTC 2206.03: Bio-Politics: Human Nature in Contemporary Thought
• CTMP 3121.03: Genocide: Contemp. Perspectives
• CTMP 3204.03: Human Experiments
• CTMP 3321.03: Representations of the Holocaust: Bearing Witness
• 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/CTMP 3170.03: Theories of Punishment: Retribution and Social Control in Early Modern Thought
• ENGL 2237.03: Outlaw Tales
• ENGL 4880.03: Prison Literature
• ENVS 3200.03: Introduction to Environmental Law
• HIST 2006.03: The Atlantic World, 1450-1650 
• HIST 2007.03: The Atlantic World, 1650-1800
• HIST 2135.03: The Rule of Law? Topics in British Legal History (Pre-1900)
• HIST 2714.03: Slavery and Slaving in Global History
• HIST 2715.03: Locked Up: A Global History of Incarceration
• HIST 3053.06: Fascist and National Socialist Movements in Europe
• HIST 3056.03: The Holocaust 
• HIST 3101.03: Punishment, Crime and the Courts in Early Modern England
• HIST 3226.03: Law and Justice in Canada to 1890 (if not taken as required course)
• HIST 3227.03: Criminal Law, Crime and Punishment in Canadian Society, 1890-present (if not taken as required course)
• HIST 3600.03: History of Law & Justice
• HIST 4401.03: State Violence, Communal Conflict and Criminality in Modern South Africa
• HIST 4404.03: Crime and Punishment In Modern Africa
• INDG 4001.03: Treaty in Contemporary Society
• JOUR 3339.03: Ethics and Law for Journalists
• LJSO 3000.03: Processes of Justice (if not taken as required course)
• LJSO 3100.03: Current Issues in Criminal Justice
• LJSO 3200.03: Topics in Law and Society
• LJSO 3500.03: Legal Research and Writing (if not taken as required course)
• LJSO 3600.03: Critical Legal Studies
• LJSO 4300.03: Ethics, Law & Society
• MGMT 2200.03: Fundamentals of the Legal Environment of Management
• MGMT 2805.03: Indigenous Governance
• MGMT 4205.03: Law and Policy for Resource and Environmental Law (Discontinued Course)
• PHIL 2020.03: Legal Thinking (if not taken as required course)
• PHIL 2450.03: Democracy, Difference, Citizenship
• PHIL 2475.03: Justice in Global Perspective
• PHIL 2490.03 / CSCI 3101.03: Social, Ethical and Professional Issues in Comp. Sci.
• PHIL 3106.03: Animal Ethics 
• PHIL 3211.03: Philosophy of Law
• PHIL 3476.03 / POLI 3476.03: Liberalism and Global Justice
• POLI 2210.03: Unity and Diversity
• POLI 2215.03: Canadian Aboriginal Politics
• POLI 2220.03: Structures of Canadian Parliamentary Government
• POLI 2230.03: Municipal Law and City Politics in Canada
• POLI 2520.03: World Politics
• POLI 3206.03: Constitutional Law and Politics in Canada
• POLI 3207.03: Charter Politics
• POLI 3208.03: Canadian Provincial Politics
• POLI 3378.03: American Politics Polarization & Crisis
• POLI 3385.03: Politics of the Environment
• POLI 3401.03: Contemporary Political Thought
• POLI 3426.03/GWST 3426.03: Sex, Race, and the State
• POLI 3446.03: Politics of Crime 
• 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/PUAD 5120.03: Policy Formulation in Canada 
• POLI 4303.03: Human Rights: Political Issues
• POLI 4390.03/GWST 4390.03: Practicum in Public Policy: NGOs & Government Services 
• POLI 4403.03: Human Rights: Philosophical Issues
• POLI 4450.03: Political Theories of International Ethics and Global Justice
• POLI 4481.03: Theories of Violence, Persecution and Genocide
• POLI 4505.03: Human Rights: Legal Issues
• POLI 4532.03: Indigenous Global Politics
• PSYO 2444.03: Forensic Psychology
• PSYO 3444.03: Criminal Behaviour
• SOSA 2181.03: Explaining Crime and Criminal Behaviour
• SOSA 2182.03: Exploring Crime and Criminal Behaviour
• SOSA 3148.03: Drugs, Health and Society
• 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, and Power
• SOSA 3260.03: Deviance
• SOSA 3275.03: Crime and Public Policy 
• SOSA 3281.03: Youth Crime
• SOSA 3283.03: Globalized Security and Justice (Discontinued Course)
• SOSA 3285.03: Sociology of Law
  
• SOSA 3291.03: Corrections
• SOSA 3295.03: Society and Police
• SOSA 4005.03: Issues in Social Justice and Inequality
• SUST 4125.03: Conflict Negotiation and Sustainability