Program Requirements

1. Students must complete a minimum of 18 credit hours.
2. Students must complete a minimum of 18 upper-division (3000-level and above) credit hours in the minor.
3. Students must achieve a minimum GPA of 3.0 for all courses applied to major requirements. 
4. Students must complete all minor courses taken at CU Denver with a minimum grade of C (2.0) and all transfer courses applying to minor requirements with a minimum grade of C- (1.7). Students cannot complete minor or ancillary course requirements as pass/fail.
5. Students must complete a minimum of 18 credit hours with CU Denver faculty.

Program Restrictions, Allowances and Recommendations

1. All courses must be taken in residence at CU Denver from CU Denver faculty. No transfer courses apply.
2. Courses taken for the minor cannot serve to fulfill requirements of the university general education or the CLAS undergraduate core graduation requirements. Courses taken for a student’s major cannot be used to fulfill any requirements for the minor unless prior permission is granted by the minor coordinator.
3. Every course used to complete minor requirements must be upper-division (3000-level and above).

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  Take the following Foundations course:

• HUMN 4251 - Introduction to Legal Studies
• SSCI 4050 - Special Topics in Law Studies

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  Take two of the following Constitutional Thought courses:

• SSCI 4325 - First Amendment: Theory and Context
• PSCI 4477 - Constitutional Law I
• PSCI 4487 - Constitutional Law II
• SSCI 4050 - Special Topics in Law Studies  First Amendment: Theory and Context

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  Take two of the following Social Context of Law courses:

• COMM 3231 - Famous U.S. Trials
• CRJU 4430 - Law and Society
• ECON 4230 - Law and Economics
• HIST 4308 - Crime, Policing, and Justice in American History
• SSCI 4050 - Special Topics in Law Studies  Gender and the Law
• PHIL 4260 - Philosophy of Law
• PSYC 3505 - Psychology and the Law
• SOCY 4700 - Sociology of Law