Course Work

Pre-Law Coursework

Law related courses at Merrimack fall into two basic categories: courses about law and the legal system, and courses that focus on skills useful for law school.  It is suggested that, in consultation with the Pre-Law Advisor and their academic advisor, students interested in the law consider taking several of these courses as they are in the process of otherwise fulfilling their core, distribution, major, and elective requirements for their undergraduate degrees.

Courses about Law and the Legal System

POL 3150 Criminal Law 
POL 3151 American Constitutional Law 
POL 3152 Civil Liberties  
POL 2581 Plato to Machiavelli 
POL 2181 American Political Thought 
POL 3112 Legislative Process 
PHL 2040 Introduction to Political Philosophy 
PHL 2500 Theories of Justice 
PHL 3020 Philosophy of Law 
PHL 2060 Biomedical Ethics 
SOC 3120 Sociology of Law 
SOC 3050 Female Deviance, Crime, & Social Control 
SOC 3200 Criminology and Penology 
WGS 3710 Gender and the Law 
CEN 4034 Environmental Law 
BUS 2227 Legal & Ethical Supp. Sys for Management 
MGT 3320 Employment Law and Labor Relations 

Courses that Focus on Skills Useful in Law School

PHL 2080 Approaches to Ethics
PHL 4000 Contemporary Analytic Philosophy
PHL 4020 Epistemology
COM 1020 Public Communication
COM 3310 Principles of Persuasion
COM 2100 Rhetoric
Any Courses Offered by the Department of History
Any Courses Designated as Writing Intensive (WI)
Any Courses Emphasizing Quantitative Skills
ENG 2060 Introduction to Composition Studies
ENG 1550 Major American Authors
PSY 1000 General Psychology
MTH 1314 Discrete Mathematics
CSC 1031 Introduction to Computing
BUS 1100 Business Enterprise
BUS 2225 Motivation and Behavior for Management