1004
American Studies: Pre-Law, BA
Other Requirements • See the College of Arts and Sciences Requirements • Upper-Division Credit: Total hours must include at least 40 hours in courses numbered 3000 or above. • Hours in One Department: Hours in one department in excess of 54 will be added to the minimum total of 120 required for graduation College of Arts and Sciences Requirements 1. General Education Requirements No more than two courses (or eight hours) from the major department may be used to meet General Education and College and Departmental Requirements. The General Education required English Composition, required U.S. History, required American Government, one required MATH or STAT course, and required foreign language for B.A. degrees do not count against the two-course maximum. 2. A&S College/Departmental Requirements a. Arts and Humanities are defined as any course carrying an (H) designation or courses from AMST, ART, DANC, ENGL (except ENGL 3323 Technical Writing) HIST, MUSI, PHIL (except PHIL 1313 Logic and Critical Thinking (A), PHIL 3003 Symbolic Logic (A) and PHIL 4003 Mathematical Logic and Computability), REL, TH, and foreign languages. b. Natural and Mathematical Sciences are defined as any course from the following prefixes: ASTR, BIOC, BIOL, CHEM, CS (except CS 4883 Social Issues in Computing), GEOL, MATH, MICR, PBIO, PHYS, and STAT; or courses from other departments that carry an (A) or (N) general education designation. c. The required six hours of upper-division General Education may not include courses from the student’s major department. This requirement may be satisfied by courses also used to satisfy any part of a student’s degree program (i.e., in General Education, College Departmental Requirements, Major Requirements or Electives). d. Non-Western Studies Requirement for B.A. and B.F.A.; One 3-hour course in Non-Western Studies (N.W.). This requirement may be satisfied by courses also used to satisfy any part of a student's degree program (i.e., in General Education, College Departmental Requirements, Major Requirements or Electives). e. The College of Arts & Sciences requires a minimum 2.0 GPA in all major requirements and a minimum 2.0 GPA in all major-prefix courses. 3. Foreign Language Proficiency a. The foreign language requirement for the B.A. may be satisfied by 9 hours college credit in the same language, which must include 3 hours at the 2000-level, or equivalent proficiency (e.g., passing an advanced standing examination; TOEFL exam; presenting a high school transcript which demonstrates the high school was primarily conducted in a language other than English; etc.). Computer Science courses may not be used to satisfy this requirement. Currently Arabic and Mvskoke are not offered at the 2000-level at OSU. b. The foreign language requirement for the B.S., B.M. and B.F.A. may be satisfied by presenting a high school transcript which demonstrates two years of study of a single foreign language
ENGL 3183 ENGL 3190
Native American Literature (DH)
Readings in Postcolonial and Multiethnic Literature
ENGL 3193 ENGL 3410 ENGL 3443 ENGL 3453 ENGL 3473 ENGL 3503 ENGL 3813 ENGL 4093 ENGL 4200 ENGL 4210
African-American Literature (DH)
Popular Fiction
Studies in Film Genre (H) History of American Film (H)
Race, Gender, and Ethnicity in American Film (D) Television and American Society (DH) Readings in the American Experience (DH)
Language in America
Studies in Early American Literature Studies in 19th Century American Literature Studies in 20th Century American Literature Studies in Regional Literature Culture and the Moving Image
ENGL 4220
ENGL 4400 ENGL 4450
Legal Emphasis Select 12 hours upper division of the following:
12
AMIS 4013 AMST 3333 GEOG 3133 ECON 3713 PHIL 3513 PHIL 3843 POLS 3523 POLS 3963 POLS 4353 POLS 4363 POLS 4593
American Indian Sovereignty (D) Crime, Law and American Culture (S)
Political Geography (IS) Government and Business Social Philosophy (H) Philosophy of Law (H) Money, Media And Politics State Courts and the Bar
Administrative Law
Environmental Law And Policy
Natural Resources and Environmental Policy U.S. Constitution: Civil Rights and Civil Liberties
POLS 4963
PSYC 4293 SOC 3523 SOC 4313 SOC 4333 SOC 4743
Forensic Psychology
Juvenile Delinquency (DS)
Sociology of Law Criminology (S)
Criminalistics: Introduction to Forensic Sciences
SPCH 3733 SPCH 4793
Elements of Persuasion (S) Nonverbal Communication (S)
Select 9 hours of upper-division courses
9
Hours Subtotal Electives Select 10 hours
48
10
May need to include 6 hours upper-division general education outside major department (see note 2.c.) and 1 additional upper- division hour. Recommend ECON 2103 and POLS 2023 Hours Subtotal
(passing grades at second-year level of study). It may also be satisfied by 6 hours college credit in the same language, which must include language courses 1713 and 1813, or
10
Total Hours
120
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