Legal Studies certificate

A legal studies certificate may be earned by students who have completed a concentration of academic work designed to prepare them for admission to and success in law school, regardless of major or minor at UNT. The Department of Political Science will award the certificate to students who have completed 15 hours of approved course work and maintained a 3.25 in the courses taken for the certificate as well as a 3.0 cumulative UNT GPA. Classes that count toward the student’s major, minor or core requirements may also count toward this certificate. In keeping with university policy, all course work for the certificate must be completed at UNT.

Requirements

All recipients of the certificate MUST complete one course from each of the following five areas:

Foundations, 3 hours

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Analytical reasoning, 3 hours

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Oral and written advocacy, 3 hours

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Applied legal studies, 3 hours

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Critical thinking, 3 hours

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Additional information

For more information, please visit www.class.unt.edu/advising/pre-law. If you wish to declare your intent to seek a legal studies certificate, contact the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences Student Advising office (sscluster@unt.edu).