Law and Society, BA

Degree Requirements

120 Credits Required

Liberal Arts Core Curriculum

Each liberal arts major is designed as a four-year plan of study and includes three types of courses: Major, Core, and Elective. Most students take five courses per semester, with some of each type.

Professional academic advisors meet individually with each of our students on a regular basis to help with course selection, academic planning, and career development, as well as to help students find additional resources on campus.

For the Liberal Arts Core Curriculum click here .

Departmental/Program Major Course Requirements (33 credits)

Students majoring in Law and Society are required to complete 33 credit hours of coursework. The degree focus consists of six (6) credit hours courses designed to build a foundation in sociological inquiry, nine (9) credit hours of theory and quantitative methods, and nine (9) credit hours of courses focusing on the process of law. 

Double majors in Law and Society and Sociology are NOT allowed.

Other Departmental/Program Course Requirements (57 credits)

• Each liberal arts major is designed as a four-year plan of study and includes three types of courses: Major, Core, and Elective. Most students take five courses per semester, with some of each type.
• Professional academic advisors meet individually with each of our students on a regular basis to help with course selection, academic planning, and career development, as well as to help students find additional resources on campus.
• For the Liberal Arts Core Curriculum click here. 

• ENGL 10600 - First-Year Composition (satisfies Written Communication for core) or
• ENGL 10800 - Accelerated First-Year Composition (satisfies Written Communication for core) or
• SCLA 10100 - Transformative Texts, Critical Thinking And Communication I: Antiquity To Modernity (satisfies Written Communication for core)

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• COM 11400 - Fundamentals Of Speech Communication (satisfies Oral Communication for core) or
• SCLA 10200 - Transformative Texts, Critical Thinking And Communication II: Modern World (satisfies Oral Communication for core)

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• Other Languages (Proficiency through Level IV in one language) (satisfies Humanities for core) - Credits Hours: 12.00
• Mathematics (satisfies Quantitative Reasoning for core) - Credit Hours: 3.00
• Statistics (satisfies Quantitative Reasoning for core) - Credit Hours: 3.00
• Western Heritage - Credit Hours: 3.00
• United States Tradition (satisfies Behavioral Social Science for core - if POL 10100   was taken) - Credit Hours: 3.00
• Other Cultures (satisfies Behavioral Social Science for core - if ANTH 20500  was taken) - Credit Hours: 3.00
• Aesthetic Awareness - Credit Hours: 3.00
• Racial and Ethnic Diversity - Credit Hours: 3.00
• Gender Issues - Credit Hours: 3.00
• Social Ethics (satisfies Science, Technology & Society for core - if PHIL 27000  or POL 22300   was taken) - Credit Hours: 3.00
• Individual and Society - Credit Hours: 3.00
• Global Perspective (satisfies Science, Technology & Society for core - if HIST 38400  or HIST 38700   was taken) - Credit Hours: 3.00
• Natural Sciences (satisfies Science for core - requires 6 credits) - Credit Hours: 3.00
• Natural Sciences Lab - Credit Hours: 3.00

Electives (30 credits)

University Core Requirements

• Human Cultures Humanities
• Human Cultures Behavioral/Social Science
• Information Literacy
• Science #1
• Science #2
• Science, Technology, and Society
• Written Communication
• Oral Communication
• Quantitative Reasoning

For a complete listing of course selectives, visit the Provost’s Website.

Program Requirements

Notes

• Law and Society majors must earn a “C-” or better in any course used to fulfill a major requirement, including prerequisites.  The P/NP option is not available for this requirement.
• 2.0 Graduation GPA required for Bachelor of Arts degree.
• 32 credit hours of Purdue coursework at the 30000 level or higher required for Bachelor of Arts degree.
• Liberal Arts offers a streamlined plan of study for students pursuing a second degree outside CLA. Contact the CLA Advising Office for more information.

Foreign Language Courses

Foreign Language proficiency requirements vary by program. 

For acceptable languages and proficiency levels, see your advisor: American Sign Language, Arabic, Chinese, French, German, (ancient) Greek, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Latin, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish

Critical Course

The ♦ course is considered critical.

In alignment with the Degree Map Guidance for Indiana’s Public Colleges and Universities, published by the Commission for Higher Education (pursuant to HEA 1348-2013), a Critical Course is identified as “one that a student must be able to pass to persist and succeed in a particular major.  Students who want to be nurses, for example, should know that they are expected to be proficient in courses like biology in order to be successful.  These would be identified by the institutions for each degree program”. 

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