Students in Legal Studies explore everything from lawmaking to sentencing, develop critical thinking skills, and rethink what it means to “practice” law in the everyday. Legal Studies at St. Jerome’s University is an interdisciplinary program with an active student body and is offered in partnership with the University of Waterloo. Legal Studies courses taught at St. Jerome’s University include the following:

Other Legal Studies courses taught by St. Jerome's University faculty that are cross-listed include:  

LS/SOC 229 Selected Topics in Criminology

LS/SOC 327 Policing in a Democratic Society
                                
History       

LS/HIST 236 Law and Society in the Middle Ages

LS 235/HIST 210 History of Ancient Law
                
English   

LS 291/ENGL 210I Legal Writing

LS 292/ENGL 213 Literature and the Law
                
Philosophy

LS 351/PHIL 327 Philosophy of Law
                
Psychology   

LS 272/PSYCH 230 Psychology and Law

LS 372/PSYCH 330 Criminal Profiling

 

Our undergraduate and graduate programs are interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary, and focus on a qualitative and interpretive approach with quantitative research playing its role as well. Sociology courses offered at St. Jerome’s University include: 

 

 

To learn more about the courses offered by St. Jerome's University's Department of Sociology and Legal Studies please visit FIND YOUR COURSES and enter SOC or LS under the Subject prompt.

 

For more information on academic plans please visit the University of Waterloo Undergraduate Calendar pages for Sociology and for Legal Studies.