Law, Public Policy, and Society, Associate in Arts Degree for Transfer
Banner Code: 2_AAT_LAW
Control Number: 40252
Financial Aid Eligible
The Associate in Arts for Transfer (AA-T) Area of Emphasis: Law, Public Policy and Society is a degree program designed to prepare students for the further study of law. The coursework required to earn this degree has been identified as preparation for law school upon completion of a bachelor’s degree. Students in this program will be introduced to the legal field and will gain an interdisciplinary understanding of legal concepts and policy issues related to diverse populations. This program emphasizes the development of skills essential in the legal profession, including communication, argumentation and critical thinking. As an interdisciplinary AA-T degree, this program includes core courses in several majors offered at four-year universities. Students are encouraged to further explore these other majors when selecting electives to complete this AA-T Area of Emphasis: Law, Public Policy and Society degree.
Program Level Learning Outcomes
Upon completion of this program, students will be able to:
- Develop legal and critical-thinking skills in judicial issues.
- Evaluate legal issues in a variety of different environments.
- Analyze issues by application of relevant rules of law, ethical standards, and social mores.
Potential careers students may enter upon completion are as follows:
- Intellectual property lawyer
- Judge advocate in the U.S. military
- Compliance attorney
- Political lawyer or policy attorney
- Immigration attorney
- Elder law attorney
- Environmental lawyer
- Judicial clerk
- Administrative or regulatory attorney
- Trial lawyer
- Appellate lawyer
- Corporate lawyer
- Human rights or civil rights lawyer
- International lawyer
- Labor and employment lawyer
- Legal librarian
- Legal librarian
- Legal advisor
- Paralegal
- Politician
- Legal editor
- Law school counselor
- Professor
- Policy analyst
- Union organizer
- Contracts administrator
- Lobbyist
- Arbitrator
- Foreign service officer
- FBI agent
- CIA agent
Associate Degree for Transfer Graduation Requirements
Associate Degrees for Transfer require students to meet the following requirements:
- Completion of 60 semester units or 90 quarter units of degree-applicable courses,
- Minimum overall grade point average of 2.0,
- Minimum grade of “C” (or “P”) for each course in the major, and
- Completion of Cal-GETC.
Students should consult a GWC counselor in order to select the best pathway to meet their educational goals. For students who intend to transfer, the choice of general education will be specific to both their major and transfer institution.
| Course | Title | Units |
|---|---|---|
| Required Courses | ||
| PSCI G130 | Law In American Society | 3 |
| PHIL G120 | Ethics | 3 |
| COMM G110 | Introduction to Public Speaking | 3 |
| ENGL G100 | Academic Reading and Writing | 4-6 |
| or ENGL G100S | Academic Reading and Writing | |
| CMST G220 | Essentials of Argumentation | 3 |
| or PSYC G130 | Critical Thinking in Psychology | |
| or PHIL G125 | Critical Reasoning and Writing | |
| STAT G160 | Introduction to Statistics | 3-6 |
| or STAT G160S | Introduction to Statistics | |
| or PSYC G140 | Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences | |
| or SOC G125 | Introduction to Statistics in Sociology | |
| or ECON G160 | Statistics for Business and Economics | |
| HIST G170 | History Of The United States To 1876 | 3 |
| or HIST G175 | History of the United States Since 1876 | |
| POLS G180 | American Government and Politics | 3 |
| or PSCI G181 | American Government: The Politics of Race and Ethnicity | |
| List A | ||
| Select two courses from two of the following areas: | 6 | |
| Administrative of Justice/Criminal Justice/Criminology (select one): | 3 | |
| CJ G140 | Introduction to Criminal Justice | 3 |
| CJ G123 | Juvenile Law | 3 |
| CJ G150 | Introduction To Corrections | 3 |
| SOC G160 | Sociology of Criminology | 3 |
| Business (select one): | 3 | |
| ECON G170 | Principles of Microeconomics | 3 |
| ECON G175 | Principles of Macroeconomics | 3 |
| Political Science (select one): | 3 | |
| PHIL G150 | Political Theory | 3 |
| or PSCI G150 | Political Theory | |
| PSCI G110 | International Relations | 3 |
| PSCI G185 | Comparative Politics | 3 |
| PSCI G100 | Introduction To Political Science | 3 |
| Public Policy (select one): | 3 | |
| GLST G102 | Global Issues | 3 |
| or SOC G185 | Analysis of Social Problems | |
| PSCI G101 | Survey Of Current Issues | 3 |
| or ECON G110 | Economic Issues and Policy | |
| or ECON G130 | Environmental Economics and Policy | |
| Diversity (select one): | 3 | |
| PSCI G103 | Race, Ethnicity and Political Issues | 3 |
| or ETHS G103 | Race, Ethnicity and Political Issues | |
| HIST G121 | History of American Women | 3 |
| ETHS G134 | Introduction to Chicana/o Studies | 3 |
| or SOC G134 | Introduction to Chicana/o Studies | |
| ETHS G136 | Introduction to Black and African American Studies | 3 |
| ETHS G137 | Introduction to Asian American and Pacific Islander Studies | 3 |
| ETHS G167 | Psychology of Racism and Oppression | 3 |
| or PSYC G167 | Psychology of Racism and Oppression | |
| GEOG G120 | Critical Geographies of Race/Ethnicity in the United States | 3 |
| or ETHS G120 | Critical Geographies of Race/Ethnicity in the United States | |
| SOC G111 | Social Justice and U.S. Ethnic Communities | 3 |
| or ETHS G111 | Social Justice and U.S. Ethnic Communities | |
| Major Total | 31-36 | |
| GE Pattern (Cal-GETC) | 34 | |
| Transferable Electives (as needed to reach 60 transferable units) | ||
| Total Units | 60 | |