Law and Society Concentration

Overview

Undergraduate Concentration

The interdisciplinary law and society concentration explores questions about the impact and effects of law, legal institutions and legal actors on society from a variety of perspectives. It also explores the identification and analysis of legal arguments in a variety of contexts. Some of the courses also help the students develop their oral advocacy skills. The concentration can be taken in conjunction with any major at Clark. Generally, 200-level courses are not appropriate for first-year students. 

For more information, please visit the Law and Society Department’s website.

Concentration Requirements

1. Students must take a minimum of six courses to fulfill the concentration.

2. The six courses must come from at least three different departments.

3. At least two of the courses must be at the 200 level.

4. At least one of the six courses must be a core course, which should be taken as early as possible in the student’s academic program:

• PHIL 132 - Social and Political Ethics

• PSCI 050 - Introduction to American Government

• SOC 262 - Law and Society

5. One of the six courses must be a capstone experience (a seminar, an internship or a directed-research project):

• PHIL 270 - Philosophy of Law

• PSCI 291 - Lawyers and Politics

• SOC 272 - Punishment, Politics and Culture

• Legal internships sponsored by faculty in a variety of academic departments

• Independent study with faculty in a variety of academic departments 

6. No more than two of the courses can also be counted for the student’s major or minor requirements, or for another concentration.

Program Faculty

Judith DeCew, Ph.D.
Patricia Ewick, Ph.D.
Mark Miller, Ph.D.

Courses

Courses offered within the last 2 Academic Year

• CHEM 050 - Forensic Science
• CMLT 109 - Human Rights and Literature
• CMLT 133 - Sexuality and Human Rights
• ECON 157 - The Economics of Natural Resources and the Environment
• ECON 222 - Labor
• ECON 257 - Environmental and Natural Resource Economics
• EN 282 - U.S. Environmental Pollution Policy
• HIST 040 - The Witchcraze: Witch Hunts in Early Modern Europe
• HIST 201 - Era of the American Revolution
• HIST 202 - The Early American Republic
• HIST 212 - History of Sexuality: 1750 to the Present
• HIST 214 - The American Civil War
• HIST 217 - Reconstruction: America after the Civil War, 1865-1877
• HIST 222 - History of the American South
• HIST 223 - The Civil Rights Movement
• HIST 231 - Origins of Modern America, 1877-1914 (formerly America in the Gilded Age)
• HIST 295 - Dangerous Women
• ID 291 - Displacement and Development in the Contemporary World.
• LAS 038 - Trial Advocacy
• LAS 039 - Advanced Trial Advocacy I
• LAS 040 - Advanced Trial Advocacy II
• LAS 294 - Peer Learning Assistant
• MGMT 262 - Business Ethics and Law
• PHIL 107 - Logic and Legal Analysis
• PHIL 132 - Social and Political Ethics
• PHIL 270 - Philosophy of Law
• PSCI 050 - Introduction to American Government
• PSCI 096 - Just and Unjust Wars
• PSCI 108 - American Political Development
• PSCI 146 - The United Nations and International Politics
• PSCI 235 - Money and U.S. Politics
• PSCI 253 - U.S. Judicial Politics
• PSCI 266 - International Law
• PSCI 272 - U.S. Constitutional Law: Civil Liberties and Rights
• PSCI 273 - U.S. Constitutional Law: Governmental Powers
• PSCI 289 - Advanced Topics in International Relations - Capstone Seminar
• PSCI 291 - Lawyers and U.S. Politics - Capstone Seminar
• PSYC 237 - Dating and Sexual Violence: Research and Prevention
• PSYC 295 - Social Science Research to Influence Public Policy
• SOC 262 - Law and Society
• SOC 263 - Deviance
• SOC 272 - Punishment, Politics and Culture

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