Legal & Justice Studies: Requirements

Every Bachelor of Arts degree candidate must complete Burlington College’s General Education requirements and must earn a minimum of 120 credits to achieve a degree. The following course requirements are specific to the Legal and Justice Studies major.

Major Requirements
36 credits past the 7 entry level credits are required. All courses are 3 credits unless otherwise noted. Other coursework may be substituted with permission of academic advisor.

Entry Level (100) 7 credits
• Introduction to Law (1 credit)
• Introduction to Microcomputers or Computer Assessment
• Peace and Justice: Issues and Individuals or
Campaign Fever: The Race for Power

Intermediate Level (200) 12 credits
• Ethics in the Helping Professions
• History of the American Legal System
• Family Law and Family Court
• Legal Ethics: Strategies, Theory, and Practice
• Criminal Law and Enforcement
• Radical History of the ‘60s
• Constitutional Law
• Legal Research and Writing
• Mediation and the Dynamics of Conflict and Change
• The Creation of the New World
• Ties That Bind: American Family Dynamics in Historical Context
• The Holocaust: Shadow and Light
• United States History 1865 to present

Upper Level (300) 3 credits
• Research Methods in the Social Sciences or Search and Research

Electives 12 credits
• The City and History
• Moments in Revolution: The American, French & Russian Revolutions
• U.S. Foreign Policy Since 1898
• Patterns of Wealth and Poverty
• Race, Ethnicity, Class and Gender
• Criminology
• Globalization and Resistance
• Social Policy
• Arts and Social Change
• Civic Scholar Seminar
• Other approved course work (e.g. guided independent study)

Internship 3 credits

Degree Project I and II (3 credits each) 6 credits

Total Credits Above Entry Level 36