Students will cultivate knowledge and skills from the fundamental domains of law,
including: administrative, constitutional, contract, as well as basic procedures in
criminal and civil law. Throughout the degree, theoretical principles are grounded
in applied, real-world case studies and examples, equipping the student to use legal
tools and insights in a variety of professional settings.
Augmenting these special areas of legal focus, students will demonstrate broader programmatic
learning outcomes including critical thinking, oral and written communication, information
literacy, ethics, quantitative fluency, broad integrative knowledge, applied learning,
and more specific types of specialized knowledge from the liberal studies. These skills
are practiced and assessed throughout the degree, in order to ensure graduates have
an integrated, well-rounded portfolio of attributes upon graduation.
The bachelor’s degree in law is highly versatile. Graduates from the program can use
their knowledge and skills in a variety of disciplines, and students can go on to
work in myriad professional settings, including: Adoptions Case Manager, Asylum Officer,
Auditor, Civil Rights Advocate, Claims Administrator or Adjustor, Commercial Real
Estate Broker, Compliance Officer, Conflict Resolution Specialist, Congressional Staffer,
Consumer Safety Officer, Contracts Manager, Corporate Ethics Officer, Environmental
Protection Specialist, Financial Compliance Officer, Court Administrator, Export Control
Officer, Foreign Affairs Officer, Financial Compliance Officer, Health Care Administrator,
Human Resources Specialist, Human Rights Officer,Insurance Broker, Intellectual Property
Specialist, International Trade Specialist, Investigator, Jury Consultant, Law Enforcement
Agent, Law Librarian, Legal Correspondent, Legal Technology Consultant, Lobbyist,
Ombudsperson, Paralegal Specialist, Patent Examiner, Policy Analyst, Politician/Legislator,
Probation Officer, Procurement Officer, Public Affairs/MediaSpecialist, Resource Manager,
Risk Manager, Social Worker, Victim Advocate, and others.
Furthermore, for those wishing to pursue to graduate studies, this degree also prepares
students for a smooth transition into our JD degree programs.
ADMISSION REQUIREMENTS
Transfer students must have a cumulative grade point average of 2.50 or better with
12 or more semester units of prior transferable credit.
For students with fewer than 11 transfer units, applicants are considered with the
following: a high school grade point average of 3.0, a resume showing three or more
years of professional work experience, a personal statement, and/or an interview with
the Dean of the School of Undergraduate studies.
GGU does not require entrance exams (ACT/SAT) for undergraduate applicants. If your
first (native) language is not English, you must meet the English language proficiency
for admissions.
DECLARING MINORS
To be eligible to declare minors, students must have already completed the required
coursework, or be able to complete it intheir final terms without requiring waivers,
substitutions, or directed study courses, unless they are approved in advance by thedepartment
chair, program director, or dean.
Students may declare minors when they have completed the required coursework, or after
the “Last Day to Drop Course with-out Tuition Charge” (per the Academic Calendar)
for their final terms.
Students may declare up to two minors in a given degree program. Students seeking
to declare more than two minors will be re-quired to appeal to the dean for approval.
Students’ diplomas will list the minors that they had successfully completed at thetime
their degrees were conferred. Students may not declare additional minors after their
degrees have been conferred.
The following minors are available for this major:
- Accounting Minor
- Business Minor
- Data Analytics Minor
- Finance Minor
- Human Resource Management Minor
- Information Technology Minor
- International Business Minor
- Literature Minor
- Management Minor
- Marketing Minor
- Operations and Supply Chain Management Minor
- Organizational Leadership and Human Skills Development Minor
- Psychology Minor
- Public Administration Minor
Law Minor
A wide range of careers demand an understanding of law and legal principles, from
corporate compliance and human relationspositions to positions in government and social
service agencies. The Minor in Law will provide students with an introduction tolaw
that will give them an edge in their chosen professional field.
Required Courses - 15 units
Select five of the following:
- LAW 100
- U.S Legal System and Process (Note: this course must be taken first as it is a co-requisite for the other courses
in the minor.)
- LAW 110
- Contract Law
- LAW 112
- Procedure
- LAW 114
- Property Law
- LAW 116
- Administrative Law
- LAW 118
- Torts: the Law of Civil Harms
- LAW 120
- Constitutional Law
Student Learning Outcomes
Students who complete the BA in Law, including the general education curriculum, will
be able to:
- Apply legal analysis to interpret and explain phenomena.
- Demonstrate abilities to interpret and evaluate legal sources and fact-patterns to
which those legal sources will be applied.
- Identify policy justifications for legal rules and principles.
- Apply existing legal responses to new problems and develop new legal theories and
responses for new problems.
- Analyzes and interprets quantitative data and applies results in legal analysis, strategy,
tactics, and practice.
- Analyze and interpret the economic policy justifications for existing legal rules
and regulations and explore those rulesand regulations in analysis of novel fact patterns.
- Apply ethically acceptable standards to evaluate legal decisions and practice.
- Apply ethically sound principles and values to ameliorate and/or mitigate real-world
personal and/or professionalchallenges and to build and enhance personal relationships.
- Demonstrate ability to research legal questions by locating, evaluating and applying
appropriate sources to a wide rangeof legal questions.
- Construct written communications that clearly articulate legal ideas and arguments
appropriate to various audiences.
- Demonstrate ability to conduct oral arguments in defense of client interests and,
conversely, to respond critically to anadversary’s position.
- Demonstrate interpersonal communication and case management skills, either through
persuasive speech, and/or inproviding clear oral directions, instructions, and/or
guidelines, that address a legal issue, case or client problem.
- Examine a previously advocated position, including the ability to amend and change
that position in light of previouslyunidentified law, regulations, facts or circumstances,
both with respect to individual matters or obligations and withrespect to one’s professional
principles and posture in general.
- Apply legal values and principles to career goals.
- Identify and express common legal values that build community at local, national,
and global levels.
- Develop innovative approaches and solutions to existing or emerging legal challenges
that also draw on disciplinaryperspectives in related fields where appropriate, such
as ethics, other humanities and/or social sciences.
- Explain and analyze how legal knowledge and analysis can elaborate and deepen the
understanding of social and culturaldiversity, and economic development.
- Describe and apply concepts, principles and overarching themes in law and legal thinking.
- Develop a working knowledge of the major theoretical approaches, findings, historical
trends and content domains in oneor more specialized fields of legal knowledge.
