Complement Your Degree with a Law, Crime and Social Justice Minor

These undergraduate minor programs are offered by the College of Humanities and Social Sciences Department of Law, Crime and Social Justice and are available at the St. Louis main campus. The Legal Studies and Criminology and Criminal Justice minors are also available through Webster University Online.

See more information on the general requirements for a minor.

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Minor in Criminology and Criminal Justice

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18 Credit Hours

This minor is designed to provide students with critical thinking skills and a multidisciplinary approach to crime and deviance.

Requirements for the Criminology and Criminal Justice Minor
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Minor in Legal Studies

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18 Credit Hours

This minor is designed to give students students who are pursuing a career that has a significant connection to law and legal matters and who wish to deepen their understanding of the legal system.

*Please note that the minor in Legal Studies is not approved by the American Bar Association.

Requirements for the Legal Studies Minor
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Minor in LGBTQ Studies

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18 Credit Hours

This multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary minor approaches the study of sexualities and identities in relation to the social construction of race, ethnicity, class, age, religion, ability, nationality, immigrant status, body size and citizenship.

Requirements for the LGBTQ Studies Minor
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Minor in Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies

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18 Credit Hours

This interdisciplinary minor is designed for students to investigate how assumptions about gender and sexuality inform social, cultural and political practices that both reproduce and resist hierarchies of power.

Requirements for the Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies Minor

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