LSJ Major Requirements Overview
While LSJ continues to be a capacity-constrained major, the admissions requirements and overall curriculum are now more open allowing students more ease in completing the major. These decisions were largely made due to our smaller faculty size and creating less of a bottleneck.
Moving forward, the Department will be using the following language to distinguish between the two curricula:
PURPLE Curriculum
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The curriculum that current students are familiar with and is prior to Autumn 2024
GOLD Curriculum
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The new curriculum beginning Autumn 2024 onwards
To review the curriculum specifics for either curriculum, please visit the Purple Major Requirements page and the Gold Major Requirements page.
We will continue to run our admissions cycles during autumn, winter, and spring.
A few changes to highlight:
- The major credit requirements have increased from 55 to 60
- The core requirements have opened, while still requiring 20 credits, we no longer have the rigid categories and instead have broken it down as follows:
- LSJ 200
- Two courses in either Rights or Law courses
- One 400-level capstone seminar
- We removed the subfield section and 25 credit requirement and shifted to a 300-level section and 20 credit requirement
- There is no longer an internship requirement
- Lastly, we removed the two 400-level seminar requirement and in its place created an Upper-Division Electives section where at least one of those courses must be at the 400-level.