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Minors in Public Law

Minor in Law, Justice, and Society

The Center runs the undergraduate Minor in Law, Justice, and Society, which explores issues related to law, democracy, and social justice through an interdisciplinary lens. The minor allows students to study these issues from a range of perspectives by drawing on coursework in Government, History, Philosophy, and Sociology.

This transcript-recognized minor must be completed in conjunction with an undergraduate degree at the University of Texas at Austin. The minor requires 18 hours of coursework, consisting of six hours in Government, three hours in Sociology, and nine hours in eligible courses in departments across campus. This must include a minimum of 12 hours of upper-division coursework, at least half of the courses must be completed in residence, and at least one course must be from outside the student’s major. 

Students enrolled in the minor are engaged in the broader law and democracy community and events, with invitations to participate in the Center's Working Group on Law and Democracy, undergraduate internships, and collaborative research opportunities with faculty and graduate students.

The minor was developed in the 2017-18 academic year by an interdisciplinary committee chaired by Raúl Madrid (Government) and including faculty members Gary Jacobsohn (Government), H. W. Perry (Government and Law), Mary Rose (Sociology), and Jeff Tulis (Government) and student representatives Luciano Barraza and David Jenkins. The minor is updated periodically to account for new classes available at UT.

For more information, please visit the Minor in Law, Justice, and Society application page.

Other Minors

Additional minors and certificates run by other departments across campus may also be of interest to students working on these issues. Below are programs focused on law, democracy, and international affairs that are open to students in any UT college or school. The Center does not run the programs below, so please contact the departments below for more information: