University of New Haven
300 Boston Post Road
West Haven
CT
06516
1-800 DIAL-UNH or 1-800-342-5864
| Advisor: Natalie J. Ferringer, PhD. | |
| This certificate is designed to provide a background in and orientation to constitutional and legal issues in contemporary American and global society by exploring basic constitutional principles and the levels at which legal conflicts arise. Student will be introduced to basic principles and practices in the American legal system, inlcuding some elements that pertain to international activity, and will learn to recognize areas of potential legal conflict at all levels of the system--legislative, judicial, adminsitrative, and regulatory. | |
| PS 601 | Constitutional Law |
| PS 610 | Legal Methods I |
| PS 655 | Conflict Resolution |
| Plus one of the following: | |
| PS 602 | Civil Liberties and Rights |
| PS 603 | International Law |
| PS 604 | Human Rights and Law |
| PS 605 | Criminal Law |
| PS 608 | The Legislative Process |
| PS 612 | Contracts, Torts, and the Practice of Law |
| PS 616 | Urban Government |
| PS 617 | Law, Science, and Ethics |
| PS 625 | Transnational Legal Structures |
| PS 626 | Decision Making in the Political Process |
| PS 628 | Change and Government |
| PS 633 | The Political Process and the Aged |
| PS 635 | Law and Public Health |
| PS 640 | Law and Education |
| PS 645 | Government and the Industrial Sector |
| PS 670 | Selected Topics |
| PS 695 | Independent Study |
| Total credits: 12 | |