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Arts Academic Plans

Legal Studies

Four-Year General Legal Studies

Continuation in this academic plan requires a cumulative overall average of 60% and a cumulative average of 70% in Legal Studies core and approved courses.

Eligibility for graduation in the Four-Year General Legal Studies academic plan includes successful fulfilment of the following requirements:

  1. Appropriate BA Program-level requirements. See "Bachelor of Arts."
  2. Legal Studies Plan-level requirements:
    • at least ten academic course units (20 courses) in Legal Studies core and approved courses, with a minimum cumulative average of 70%, including:
    • of the 20 Legal Studies core and approved courses, at least four of the courses (in addition to LS 401 and 402) must be at the 300-level or above.
    • five courses must be in one of the Legal Studies approved disciplines (i.e., any of the ones from which a course is drawn [see first bullet point above]); not all five courses need be Legal Studies approved courses.

Notes:

  1. No more than two courses may be double-counted between Legal Studies and any other academic plan or subplan.
  2. Students in a Legal Studies Four-Year General, Honours, Joint Honours, or Honours Legal Studies (Arts and Business Co-op and Regular) academic plan are not eligible to take the Legal Studies and Criminology Option.


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