Program: Law and Society Minor - Oberlin College and Conservatory

Apr 19, 2025

[PRELIMINARY] Course Catalog 2025-2026

The minor consists of a minimum of 5 full courses (or the equivalent).

Note: Students must earn minimum grades of C- or P for all courses that apply toward the minor.

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Summary of Requirements

Two Full Law and Society Minor Core Courses
Three Additional Full Law and Society Minor Core and/or Law-Related Courses

Note(s) on Requirements

Core courses must be taken in two departments.

Transfer of Credit Toward the Minor

Students transferring credits in law and society from courses taken at other institutions may apply a maximum of three courses toward the minor with the approval of the committee chair.

Detailed Minor Requirements

Law and Society Minor Course Lists

Law and Society Minor Core Courses

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AAST 220 - Doin’ Time: A History of Black Incarceration
ANTH 278 - Human Rights, Universalism and Cultural Relativism
ECON 253 - Intermediate Microeconomics
HIST 218 - The American Revolution
HIST 267 - Islamic Law & Society: From Shari’a to Human Rights
HIST 303 - Seminar: Possession and Property in Medieval Europe
HIST 448 - Slavery, Law, and Warfare in North America
HIST 493 - Repairing the Past: Readings in Historical Justice
JWST 258 / RELG 258 - Religious Outsiders and the American State
LAWS 200 - Law and Society: An Overview
PHIL 121 - Philosophy and Morality
PHIL 122 - Problems in Philosophy
PHIL 200 - Deductive Logic
PHIL 201 - Reason and Argument
PHIL 226 - Law, Morality, and Punishment
PHIL 235 - Biomedical Ethics
POLT 201 - Comparative Courts
POLT 207 - Social Movements and the Policy Process
POLT 226 - International Political Economy
POLT 229 - Politics and Power of International Law
POLT 244 - Politics of Transitional Justice
POLT 277 - American Democracy in Crisis?
POLT 283 - Judicial Politics
POLT 287 - Constitutional Law: Civil Rights and Civil Liberties
POLT 288 - Constitutional Law: Separation of Powers
POLT 289 - Judicial Simulation
POLT 371 - Power and American Democracy
POLT 373 - The U.S. Supreme Court
PSYC 430 - Seminar in Social Conflict
PSYC 431 - Seminar: Cognitive Science and the Law
RELG 249 - Medical Ethics
RELG 293 - Religion and Abolition: from Slavery to the Prison-Industrial-Complex
SOCI 212 - Foundations of Criminology
SOCI 223 - Critical Criminology
SOCI 241 - American Urbanism
SOCI 275 - Enacting the Law
SOCI 323 - Carceral Studies
SOCI 325 - Alcohol and Culture: Social Control Under the Influence

Law-Related Courses

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AAST 221 - Historic and Contemporary Debates in African American Education
AAST 222 - Historic and Contemporary Debates in African American Education II
AAST 232 - Africana Philosophy
ANTH 204 - Introduction to Linguistic Anthropology
CAST 223 / EVSS 223 - Surviving America: Introduction to Native Studies
CAST 256 - Immigration in U.S. History
CHEM 057 - Drug Development
CLAS 103 - History of Greece
CLAS 104 - History of Rome
ECON 207 - Urban Economics
ECON 231 - Environmental Economics
ECON 241 - Principles of Finance
ECON 317 - Industrial Organization
ENGL 372 - Contemporary Literary Theory: Post-Modernity and Imagination
EVSS 231 - Environmental Economics
FYSP 173 - The French Revolution and the Making of the Modern World
HIST 227 - The History and Practice of Whiteness in the United States
HIST 256 - Immigration in U.S. History
HIST 407 - Civil War Era
PHIL 204 - Ethics
PHIL 234 - Topics in Applied Ethics
PHIL 238 - Ethics and Technology
POLT 220 - International Security
POLT 231 - Justice, Virtue, and the Good Life
POLT 238 - Empire and Political Thought
POLT 279 - American Presidency and Presidential Power
POLT 280 - U.S. Congressional Politics and Legislative Strategies
POLT 281 - Interest Groups and American Democracy
PSYC 214 - Abnormal Psychology
PSYC 218 - Social Psychology
SOCI 254 - Political Sociology