Arts Academic Plans

A Joint Honours academic plan with Legal Studies may be taken in combination with most Arts disciplines in which an Honours academic plan is offered or with many Honours majors in other Faculties. See the Director for the most recent list of approved combinations.

Continuation in this academic plan requires a cumulative overall average of 60% and a cumulative average of 75% in Legal Studies core and approved courses.

Eligibility for graduation in the Joint Honours Legal Studies academic plan includes successful fulfilment of the following requirements:

1. Appropriate Program-level requirements for the Home Faculty, including at least 20 academic course units. If the Home Faculty is Arts, see "Bachelor of Arts."
   Note: In practice, depending on the number of courses required by the second discipline (i.e., overall and for the major) and the number of electives that students choose to take, more than 40 courses may be necessary for graduation.
2. Legal Studies Plan-level requirements:
   • at least eight academic course units (16 courses) in Legal Studies core and approved courses, with a minimum cumulative average of 75%, including:
     • LS 101, 401, 402
     • 13 additional courses from the Legal Studies Approved Course List which must include:
       1. eight courses from the following Foundation Courses: AFM 231 or MTHEL 100; ENGL 210I; ENVS 201; HIST 277, 329; ISS 350E; LS 201/WS 206; LS 250; PACS 202; PHIL 215, 327; PSCI 291, 292, 363; PSYCH 230; SOC 370
       2. five courses from the balance of the Foundation Courses above and the following approved courses: CLAS/HIST 210; ENGL 212, 213; ENVS 401; HIST 236; ISS 350G; LS 102, 498; PACS 323; PHIL 226; PLAN 471; PSCI 225, 226, 260, 459; PSYCH 330; SOC 201, 222, 227, 228, 229, 249, 325, 327, 368
   • of the 16 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.
3. Plan-level requirements for the second Major.

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.