Sociology and Legal Studies

Legal studies

Legal Studies at St. Jerome’s University explores how law shapes us and, in turn, how we shape law. Students 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:

• LS 101: Introduction to Legal Studies
• LS 202: Criminal Law
• LS 286: Law in Popular Culture                                           
• LS 386: Law and Violence
• LS 401 Law, Culture, and Rights
• LS 402: Legal Subjectivity and Authority  

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

Sociology

• 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

Sociology

Sociology strives to understand human social life, from the ancient Socratic approach to questioning to contemporary critical theory. 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: 

• SOC 101: Introduction to Sociology
• SOC 229: Selected Topics in Criminology
• SOC 327: Policing in a Democratic Society
• SOC 355J: Power and Parenting
• SOC 369J: Sociology of Community
• SOC 417: Sociology of Higher Education
• SOC 436: Alcohol, Grey Zone, Well-Being

The courses offered by the St. Jerome's University Sociology and Legal Studies department are listed below.

For information academic plans, please visit Sociology and Legal Studies on the Programs and Plans section of the Undergraduate Studies Academic Calendar.