Pre-Law Minor
Around 2005, EMU became the first North American Mennonite institution to offer a pre-law minor and a student law society, Res Judicata. The pre-law minor is an interdisciplinary and interdepartmental minor, designed to complement a variety of majors to prepare students for a range of careers including:
- traditional practices of law
- mediation
- environmental law
- international development
- politics
- human rights work
- victim offender reconciliation
- juvenile justice
The minor requires 22-24 SH (which includes internships). Download the history course catalog for course and curriculum details.
A unique lens for law
EMU pre-law students learn to understand and articulate contending positions – key skills necessary in crafting the laws of society in a diverse world – in varied settings, here on campus or in another culture. Professors and students approach law through inter-disciplinary, multi-cultural, and cross-border skills and experiences.
Through courses in logic, ethics, human rights, political studies, theology, business, and applied sociology we examine how law positively shapes our lives.
Students also complete a semester- or summer-long internship. One option is to live in D.C., take courses at EMU’s Washington Community Scholars’ Center, and combine this with a Capitol Hill internship.
Available to students in any program
The pre-law minor is housed in the department of history but available to students in any major. Pair your major with a pre-law minor and internship to journey toward these vocations:
- Biology + pre-law = environmental protection
- Sociology + pre-law = juvenile justice
- History or English + pre-law = legal practice
- Political studies + pre-law = Capitol Hill
- Peacebuilding and Development + pre-law = human rights advocacy
- Spanish + pre-law = immigration law
- Business + pre-law = just and fair trade
Get the details of our pre-law curriculum and download the history course catalog.