While there are no specific majors or prerequisites required for law school, there are many courses to choose from at NEIU that may help prepare students prior to attending.
Child Advocacy Studies
- CAST 301: Introduction to Child Advocacy Studies
Communication, Media and Theatre
- CMTC 101: Public Speaking
- CMTC 202: Voice and Diction
- CMTC 210: Advanced Public Speaking
- CMTC 214: Business and Professional Comm.
- CMTC 310: Persuasion
- CMTC 313: Communication, Gender and Identity
- CMTC 317: Intercultural Communication
- CMTC 319: Conflict Communication
- CMTM 265: Mass Media & Society
- CMTM 365: Contemporary Issues in Mass Media
- CMTM 379: Media Law and Ethics
- CMTT 203: Voice for the Performer
- CMTT 221: Acting 1
English
- ENGL 377: Argumentative Prose
Geography and Environmental Studies
- GES 319: Environmental and Natural Resources Policy
- GES 321: Environmental Impact Assessment
- GES 329: Sustainable Energy Policy
- GES 350: Climate Change: International Policy and Politics
- GES 360: Environmental Justice and Activism
History
- HIST 308: Human Rights in History, Literature and Law
- HIST 309: History of Disability
- HIST 329B: African American History and Race Relations since 1865
- HIST 329C: Documenting the “Long” Civil Rights Movement
- HIST 335: History of Crime and Violence in America
- HIST 346: Environmental History
Justice Studies
- JUST 201: Introduction to the Criminal Justice System (highly recommended)
- JUST 301: Theories of Justice and Social Change
- JUST 319: Latinos and the Criminal Justice System
- JUST 322: Women, Justice and the Law
- JUST 323: Introduction to Child Advocacy Studies
- JUST 328: Social Justice and LGBTQ Issues
- JUST 330: Legal Research and Bibliography in Criminal Law
- JUST 331: Law and Racism in America
- JUST 333: Community Law
- JUST 334: Criminal Law and Procedure
- JUST 335: Legal Process I
- JUST 336: Postmodern Law and Criminology
- JUST 338: Introduction to Human Rights
- JUST 340: Sociology of Law
- JUST 371: U.S. Immigration Policy and Human Rights in the Americas
Philosophy
- PHIL 201: Logic (highly recommended)
- PHIL 213: Business Ethics
- PHIL 215: Ethics
- PHIL 303: Logic II
- PHIL 313: Ethical Theory
- PHIL 315: Medical Ethics
- PHIL 348: Computer Ethics and Public Policy
- PHIL 362: Philosophy of Law
- PHIL 364: Critical Race Theory
- PHIL 365: Environmental Ethics
- PHIL 366: Feminist Ethics
Political Science
- PSCI 216: American National Government
- PSCI 309A: Moot Court and Appellate Advocacy (highly recommended)
- PSCI 311: The American Judiciary and the Judicial Process in American Government
- PSCI 319: Politics of Law
- PSCI 320: Constitutional Law (highly recommended)
- PSCI 332: Latinos and the Law
- PSCI 333: Immigration, Ethnicity and Citizenship
- PSCI 341: Public Administration
- PSCI 380: International Law
Sociology
- SOC 250: Sociology of Deviance
- SOC 304: Sociology of Law
- SOC 309: Sociology of Racism
- SOC 316: Race and Ethnic Relations
- SOC 338: Environmental Sociology
- SOC 344: African America Women: Feminism, Race and Resistance
- SOC 362: Identity and Social Policy
Women's, Gender and sexuality Studies
- WGS 312: Women and Global Human Rights
