The minor in Pre-Law Studies is recommended for students interested in going to law school, law-related career, jobs in government or in the courts. [18 credits]
I. Foundation
- Complete one of the following:
II. Core
- Complete two of the following:
This course has three interconnected aims: providing an understanding of functional legal research and the resources available for accessing the law, enhancing the legal-analytic skill set, and the application of research and analysis by developing legal writing skills, including the drafting of various types of legal memorandum.
3.00III. Law Topics
- Complete three of the following courses. *Note: FMH 525 Introduction to US Law and FMH 527 Family & Juvenile Law may be taken for this category. Completion of the Registration Exception Request Form available in Self Service is required.
This advanced writing course focuses on effective use of written language to influence or persuade. Students identify persuasive strategies in a variety of texts to develop critical analytic skills, and to become informed citizens and sophisticated consumers and producers of print and electronic media, gaining professional experience in their fields.
3.00Culture and Media Studies is a course that examines the use of visual, audio, and/or digital media and the ways by which that media intersects with the larger cultural, critical, social, economic and political forces in the world at large. Courses offered under the heading of Culture and Media studies will study the meaning-making processes and practices that comprise our media culture as well as the specific terminology and genre-specific concepts that are associated with the particular media of focus. To best reflect the vast scope of media, Cultural and Media Studies will regularly rotate different forms and intersections of media.
3.00Minor Policy
- Minors may be declared any time before the completion of the drop/add period in the first term of the senior year or before completion of 87 credit hours, whichever comes later.
- Successful completion of at least a one course in the minor is a prerequisite to such declaration.
- Only two of the required minor courses may also count toward major or another minor’s requirements.
- One-half of the required minor credits for the minor must be completed at Sage (minimum).
- GPA in Minor required: 2.200 (minimum)
3+3 with Albany Law School
Russell Sage College and Albany Law School have partnered to offer a 3+3 accelerated Law School program (bachelor's degree to JD degree) for entering first-year students and rising sophomore students who meet certain requirements. Contact the Interdisciplinary Studies Department, prelaw@sage.edu, for more information.