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Legal Studies Post Baccalaureate Diploma Program

School of Criminology | Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
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Program Requirements

Students complete 30 approved upper division units, ensuring that they have the necessary lower division prerequisites for all courses in which they enrol.

Students complete both of

  • CRIM 332-3 Sociology of Law
  • CRIM 338-3 Philosophy of Law

Concentrations

In addition, students select one of the following concentrations and complete all of the courses listed.

Criminal Law

  • CRIM 310-3 Young Offenders and Criminal Justice: Advanced Topics
  • CRIM 314-3 Mental Disorder, Criminality and the Law
  • CRIM 330-3 Criminal Procedure and Evidence
  • CRIM 331-3 Advanced Criminal Law
  • CRIM 335-3 Human Rights and Civil Liberties

Women and Law

  • CRIM 333-3 Gender, Law and the State
  • CRIM 335-3 Human Rights and Civil Liberties
  • CRIM 432-3 Gender in the Courts and the Legal Profession
  • WS 303-4 Special Topics in Women’s Studies*

*when offered as the topic Women and the Law

Psychology and the Law

  • PSYC 376-3 Experimental Psychology and the Law
  • PSYC 379-3 Clinical Forensic Psychology
  • PSYC 476-4 Selected Topics in Psycholegal Psychology I
  • PSYC 477-4 Selected Topics in Psycholegal Psychology II
  • PSYC 479-4 Selected Topics in Psycholegal Psychology III
  • CRIM 314-3 Mental Disorder, Criminality and the Law

Education and Law

  • EDUC 445-4 Legal Context of Teaching
  • EDUC 446-4 Law for the Classroom Teacher
  • EDUC 448-4 Teaching about Justice, Law and Citizenship

Business, Economics and the Law

  • BUEC 391-3 Law in the Economic Society
  • BUEC 427-3 Industrial Organization: Law and Economics
  • BUS 393-3Commetcial Law
  • ECON 388-3 Introduction to Law and Economics

Fundamental Rights and Law

  • CRIM 335-3 Human Rights and Civil Liberties
  • PHIL 320-3 Social and Political Philosophy (or 321)
  • POL 324-4 Canadian Constitution
  • POL 417-4 Human Rights Theories

Additional Required Courses

To total 30 units, students choose additional courses from the Legal Studies Minor Program electives list as shown below. Exemptions and replacements for required courses may be granted by the criminology associate director who is responsible for undergraduate programs.

  • BUEC 391-3 Law in the Economic Society
  • BUEC 427-3 Industrial Organization: Law and Economics
  • BUS 393-3 Commercial Law
  • CRIM 310-3 Young Offenders and Criminal Justice: Advanced Topics
  • CRIM 314-3 Mental Disorder, Criminal Procedure and Evidence
  • CRIM 331-3 Advanced Criminal Law
  • CRIM 333-3 Gender, Law and the State
  • CRIM 335-3 Human Rights and Civil Liberties
  • CRIM 336-3 Corporate Crime and Corporate Regulation
  • CRIM 416-3 Current Issues in Criminology and Criminal Justice*
  • CRM 417-3 Current Issues in Criminology and Criminal Justice*
  • CRIM 418-3 Current Issues in Criminology and Criminal Justice*
  • CRIM 430-3 Judicial Administration and Planning
  • CRIM 432-3 Gender in the Courts and the Legal Profession
  • CRIM 435-3 Adult Guardianship Law (or GERO 435)
  • CRIM 436-3 Corporate Crime and Corporate Regulation: Advanced Topics
  • CRIM 437-3 Crime and Misconduct in the Professions
  • ECON 388-3 Introduction to Law and Economics
  • EDUC 445-4 Legal Context of Teaching
  • EDUC 446-4 Law for the Classroom Teacher
  • EDUC 448-4 Law in the Curriculum
  • HIST 312-4 Poverty, Crime and Madness, Society and the Outcast
  • PHIL 320-3 Social and Political Philosophy
  • PHIL 321-3 Topics in Moral Philosophy
  • POL 324-4 The Canadian Constitution
  • POL 344-4 Public International Law
  • POL 346-4 International Organizations
  • POL 351-4 The Public Policy Process
  • POL 355-4 Governing Instruments
  • POL 417-4 Human Rights Theories
  • POL 459-4 Selected Topics in Governance
  • PSYC 369-3 Law and Psychology
  • PSYC 469-4 Selected Topics in Psycholegal Issues
  • WS 303-4 Special Topics in Women’s Studies**

*when offered as a legal topic

**when offered as the topic Women and the Law

Students may also complete a police studies concentration as follows.

Police Studies Concentration

This concentration is offered to those completing a major, honours, minor or post baccalaureate diploma in criminology. While the concentration is offered primarily at the Surrey campus, many will be taught at the main Burnaby campus, and through the Centre for On-Line and Distance Education. The concentration is aimed at students who wish to focus their criminology undergraduate studies on policing-related courses, and they are advised to complete the following.

  • CRIM 251-3 Introduction to Policing
  • CRIM 455-3 Advanced Issues in Policing

In addition, students are advised to complete a minimum of 18 upper division units (additional to CRIM 455), as well as any lower division prerequisites. Policing courses are divided into the following areas of specialty.

Minorities and the Criminal Justice System

  • CRIM 311-3 Minorities and the Criminal Justice System
  • CRIM 419-3 Aboriginal/Indigenous Justice
  • CRIM 429-3 Indigenous Peoples and International Law

Forensic Studies

  • CRIM 315-3 Restorative Justice
  • CRIM 355-3 The Forensic Sciences
  • CRIM 356-3 The Forensic Sciences II
  • CRIM 357-3 Forensic Anatomy
  • CRIM 451-3 Advanced Techniques in Forensic Science
  • CRIM 452-3 Skeletal Pathology and Criminalistics
  • CRIM 442-3 Restorative Justice Practice: Advanced Topics

Crime Analysis and Crime Prevention

  • CRIM 350-3 Techniques of Crime Prevention I
  • CRIM 352-3 Environmental Criminology: Theory and Practice
  • CRIM 433-3 Communities and Crime
  • CRIM 450-5 Techniques of Crime Prevention II

Special Types of Offenders or Crimes

  • CRIM 316-3 Sexual Offenders and Sexual Offences
  • CRIM 317-3 Prostitution in Canada
  • CRIM 454-3 Criminal Profiling

Key Issues in Policing

  • CRIM 310-3 Young Offenders and Criminal Justice: Advanced Topics
  • CRIM 314-3 Mental Disorder, Criminality and the Law
  • CRIM 410-3 Decision-making in Criminal Justice
  • CRIM 413-3 Terrorism
  • CRIM 453-3 Policing Illegal Drug Markets

and any other 300 or 400 division course that is designated as a police studies course (see the advisor for further information).

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