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Program Requirements
Note: University regulations apply to all students at Laurier. If there is any discrepancy between the program or progression requirements outlined on this page and those in the university's academic calendars, the academic calendars are the official sources of information. The information below is from the latest calendar, and you may be following progression requirements from an earlier calendar. Students are responsible for checking the appropriate calendar. Contact your program coordinator should you notice any discrepancies.
If you are a Law and Society major at Laurier Brantford, Foundations courses are part of your program requirements. You cannot graduate without finishing the four Foundations courses.
Because the following two courses will probably help you most with your upper-level Law and Society courses, we strongly recommend that you complete them in your first year. Senior-level Law and Society courses may expect you to be familiar with the material covered in these courses.
- BF290: Academic Literacy: Social Sciences: Law and Society requires your ability to process information from all areas and bring it to bear on the literary text in question. The ability to engage the texts we read in our classes with scholarship from the social sciences will make you a more versatile and ultimately more successful student.
- BF190: Modernity and the Contemporary World: This course and its successor, BF 199, will help you contextualize the discussions that you will encounter in your Law and Society classes, and will give you the intellectual background to form stronger arguments.
The skills and knowledge covered in the following courses are also highly relevant to Law and Society. If it weren’t for the fact that we’d like you to take lots of electives in first year, we’d encourage you to take these in first year as well, so we strongly recommend you take them by the end of your second year.
- BF199: Critiques of Modernity: This course, the successor to BF 190, will also provide essential context for the discussions that you will encounter in your Law and Society classes, especially those dealing with texts written since the beginning of the 20th century.
- BF299: Academic Literacy: Humanities: This course will help you read more carefully, analyze texts more precisely, discern and form better arguments, and write clearer, sharper, better organized essays.