Learning Goals & Outcomes
Minor in Legal Studies
- Understand interrelationships of the US legal system within the context of society and government within cultural and social frameworks
- Articulate alternative points of view and asymmetries of power within the legal system as it currently operates in the United States
- Research legal sources including data and evidence from multiple sources using accepted legal practices
- Interpret legal documentation to understand complex nature of real world problems acknowledging a variety of perspectives
- Express both verbally and in written form, complex legal perspectives acknowledging multiple and distinctive points of view
- Apply legal reading, analysis and writing skills to subject specific legal situations
Updated: February 2018