History, Culture, and Law, BA (New York)

History, culture, and law is an interdisciplinary major that offers students an opportunity to understand how legal systems are shaped by cultural norms and historical developments, as well as how social change has been and can be created through legal processes. After studying principles of historical method and jurisprudence, students bring to bear the interdisciplinary frameworks they have begun to develop through program electives. 

HCL emphasizes the study of local, regional, national, and transnational histories and cultures, as well as the comparative study of law and legal history. The program requires students to develop research skills through seminars in research methodology. The broad-based education provided by the HCL major grounds students in knowledge of the historical exchange between peoples, cultures, and societies that is key to understanding contemporary issues such as international law, the future of democracy, the nature of citizenship and rights, the origins and conduct of war, the foundations of racial and ethnic conflict and tolerance, and poverty and prosperity. At the same time, the HCL major teaches crucial skills in analytical thinking, research processes, writing, oral expression, and multimedia presentation.

This program is currently only available to former Marymount Manhattan College students who are eligible for continued enrollment at Northeastern University. This program includes required courses that will be taught on ground at the Northeastern New York City campus.

Complete all courses listed below unless otherwise indicated. Also complete any corequisite labs, recitations, clinicals, or tools courses where specified and complete any additional courses needed beyond specific college and major requirements to satisfy graduation credit requirements.

Universitywide Requirements

All undergraduate students are required to complete the Universitywide Requirements.

BA Language Requirements

All BA students are required to complete the BA degree language requirements, for a total of 12 semester hours of language study or demonstrated equivalent proficiency, as described in Additional Requirements for BA students. Successful demonstration of proficiency does not reduce total minimum semester hours of study required to earn the BA degree.

NUpath Requirements

All undergraduate students are required to complete the NUpath Requirements.

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New York State Liberal Arts and Sciences Requirements

All undergraduate students enrolled in programs at the New York campus are required to fulfill New York State Liberal Arts and Sciences requirements.

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Complete all courses listed below unless otherwise indicated. Also complete any corequisite labs, recitations, clinicals, or tools courses where specified.

Note: No more than two courses taken for this major may be counted toward another major or minor. 

Law and History Core 

Course List

Code	Title	Hours
Foundational Core Courses
ENGL 3325	Rhetoric of Law	4
or ENGL 1160	Introduction to Rhetoric
HIST 1100	Law and History	4
LPSC 2301	Introduction to Law, Policy, and Society	4
or LPSC 1101	Introduction to Law
Foundational Core Elective
Complete two of the following not used to fulfill the previous requirement (note that POLS prerequisites are waived for the 3000- and 4000-level POLS classes for students in this major):		8
LPSC 2301	Introduction to Law, Policy, and Society
LPSC 3303	Topics in Law and Public Policy
LPSC 3307	Understanding the Modern Supreme Court
PHIL 2301	Philosophical Problems of Law and Justice
POLS 3302	Judicial Process and Behavior
POLS 3406	International Law
POLS 4500	U.S. Constitutional Law
POLS 4505	U.S. Civil Liberties
Research Methods
HIST 1200 and HIST 1201	Historical Research and Writing and First-Year Seminar	5
HIST 2301 and HIST 2302	The History Seminar and Historical Writing	5
HIST 4701	Capstone Seminar	4

Major Electives

Course List

Code	Title	Hours
Complete three of the following courses (including courses cross-listed) not already used to fulfill one of the requirements above. Courses not used above to fulfill a requirement may also be used to fulfill this elective requirement (at least one course must be at the 3000-4000 level):		12
AFCS 3120	Race, Crime, and Justice
ANTH 2305	Global Markets and Local Culture
CLTR 3418	Nationalism
CRIM 2350	Policing a Democratic Society
CRIM 3110	Gender, Crime, and Justice
ENGL 3325	Rhetoric of Law
HIST 1357	Data, Surveillance, and Society
HIST 2101	Law and Religion in Israel
HIST 2282	The Holocaust and Comparative Genocide
HIST 2303	Gender and Reproductive Justice
HIST 2311	Colonialism/Imperialism
HIST 3334	Assassinations in World History
LPSC 3303	Topics in Law and Public Policy
PHIL 1102	Introduction to Contemporary Moral Issues
PHIL 1112	Debating Ethical Controversies
PHIL 2303	Social and Political Philosophy
PHIL 2325	Ancient Philosophy and Political Thought
PHIL 2330	Modern Philosophy
SOCL 4522	Environmental Justice
Complete 16 semester hours of coursework from the following subject codes:		16
AFCS, ANTH, CLTR, ENGL, HIST, LPSC, PHIL, POLS, SOCL, WMNS
A minimum of of 8 semester hours of this coursework must be at the 3000 level or higher.

Major GPA Requirement

Minimum 3.000 GPA required in all major courses

Major Credit Requirement

Complete 62 hours in the major.

Experiential Liberal Arts Requirement

Course List

Code	Title	Hours
Complete one of the following:
ANTH 3410	Ethnographic Field Experience
ECON 2350	Statistics for Economists
ENGL 3340	Technologies of Text
ENGL 3381	The Practice and Theory of Teaching Writing
ENGL 3382	Publishing in the 21st Century
ENGL 3400	Opening the Archive
HIST 1120	Public History, Public Memory
HIST 2311	Colonialism/Imperialism
HUSV 1101	Social Change and Human Services
SOCL 2485	Environment, Technology, and Society

Optional Co-op

Course List

Code	Title	Hours
Successful completion of EXED 2000 is required for participation in co-op.
EXED 2000	Professional Development for Co-op	1
COOP 3945	Co-op Work Experience	0
or COOP 3946	Co-op Work Experience--Half Time
or COOP 3947	Co-op Work Experience Abroad--Half Time
or COOP 3948	Co-op Work Experience Abroad

Program Requirements

128 total semester hours required

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