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Law in Society
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Phone
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Law in Society Program
c/o Department of Sociology,
University of New Brunswick,
P.O. Box 4400, Fredericton, N.B.,
Canada E3B 5A3
(506) 453-4849
socio@unb.ca
http://www.unb.ca/fredericton/arts/dp/lawinsociety/
http://www.unb.ca/fredericton/idp/lawinsociety/
Faculty
Co-ordinator/Advisor: Dr. Dale Ballucci (Soci) BA (Guelph), MA (Wind), PhD (Alta)
Consulting Committee:
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Dr. Daniel Ahern (Phil) BA (STU), MA (UNB), PhD (McM)
Dr. David Bedford (Pols) BA (C’dia), MA, PhD (York)
Professor Dorothy Duplessis (Admin) BComm, LLB, MBA (Dal), LLM (Lond)
Dr. William Kerr (Clas) BA (Tor), BA (Oxon), MA, PhD (Prin)
Dr. Linda Neilson (Soc) BA, LLB (UNB), PhD-Law (Lond)
Dr. Ted McDonald, (Econ) BA (St. F.X.), MCom, PhD (Melbourne)
General Information
Law in Society is an interdepartmental and inter-faculty program involving the Faculties of
Administration and of Law, the Muriel McQueen Fergusson Centre for Family Violence
Research and, in the Faculty of Arts, the departments of Anthropology, Classics and Ancient
History, Economics, History, Philosophy, Political Science, Psychology, and Sociology.
Based on the premise that law and the character and quality of society are interrelated, the
program offers a critical academic examination of the role of law in society and of society in law.
Students will study these issues from at least three disciplinary perspectives and may include in
their studies examinations of the philosophic, historic, economic, political, and social
foundations of law. All of the courses explore one common theme: the connections between law
and the social order.
Eligibility
Admission to the Law in Society program is open to students who have successfully completed
sixty credit hours toward a degree in the Faculty of Arts or the Faculty of Business
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Administration. Students must obtain the approval of the department (Arts) or faculty
(Administration) in which they major and then apply through the Department of Sociology for
admission to the Law in Society program. Students should apply during the registration period or
immediately thereafter. With permission of the Co-ordinator, students may count for credit in a
LWSO Program courses taken before they enter the program. A grade of C or better is required
for credit in the Law in Society program. Although not a requirement, students are encouraged to
complete PHIL 1101 Critical Thinking before entry into the program.
Programs of Study
Double Major
The Law in Society Double Major consists of 30ch chosen from core and elective courses, as
listed below. Of these, 12ch shall be chosen from at least 3 disciplines among the core courses.
Additional core courses may be counted as electives. At least 24ch shall be upper level courses
(3000 level or above). A grade of C or better is required for credit in the Law in Society
program.
Joint Honours
Students intending to complete a Joint Honours must apply in writing through the Department of
Sociology for admission. Normally, students wishing to complete a joint honours will apply
before the start of their 3rd year and have a GPA of at least 3.3 or B+. A Joint Honours consists
of 36ch including completion of the requirements for a Double Major and completion of LWSO
5001 .
Minor
The Law in Society Minor consists of 24ch chosen from core and elective courses as listed
below. Of these, 12ch shall be chosen from at least 3 disciplines among the core courses. At least
18ch shall be upper level courses (3000 level or above). A grade of C or better is required for
credit in the Law in Society program.
Core and Elective Courses
Program Courses Core Courses
Elective Courses
ADM 3124 Aboriginal Business Law (3
ADM 3123 Business Law I (3
ch)
ch)
LWSO 5001
ADM 3875 Labour Relations (3 ch)
(UNBSJ: BA 2703)
Honours in Law in
ADM 4125 Business Law II (3 ch )
ADM 4826 Employment Law (3
Society (3 ch)
ADM 4718 Technology, Security, and
ch)
Risk (3 ch)
ANTH 3284 Legal
Anthropology (3 ch)
ADM 4827 Workplace Health and Safety
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(3 ch)
ADM 4878 Negotiation and Dispute
Resolution (3 ch)
ANTH 2144 Organising Society (3 ch)
ANTH 3523 Forensic Anthropology:
Identifying the Missing and the Murdered
(3 ch)
ANTH 3662 Canada’s First Nations (3 ch)
ANTH 4204 Gender, Kinship, and
Marriage (3 ch)
ANTH 4244 Ethnopolitics and Identity (3
ch)
ECON 3905 Contemporary Issues in the
Canadian Economy (3 ch)
CLAS 3923 Roman Law (3 ch)
ECON 5835 Industrial Organization:
Policy (3 ch)
ECON 3845 Introduction to Law
and Economics (3 ch)
HIST 4851 Law and War (3 ch)
FVI 2003 Violence and Society (3 ch)
HIST 4852 International
Governance (3 ch)
FVI 3005 Family and Criminal Legal
Systems (3 ch)
GER 3054 Crimes and Misdemeanours (3
ch)
LWSO 4003 Law and Society (3
GWS 1003 Introduction to Gender and
ch)
Women’s Studies I
GWS 2003 Introduction to Gender and
Women’s Studies II
GWS 4004 Seminar in Women’s Studies
HIST 3003 European Women, 1450-1800
(3 ch)
HIST 3015 Racism in the West from
Antiquity to the Enlightenment (3 ch)
HIST 3016 Racism in the West from the
Enlightenment to Today (3 ch)
PHIL 2204 Introduction to
HIST 3331 The Canadian Worker to 1914
Contemporary Issues in the
(3 ch)
Philosophy of Law (3 ch)
HIST 3332 The Canadian Worker since
1914 (3 ch)
HIST 3355 Nature, Culture, and the
Canadian Environment (3 ch)
HIST 3374 Native People and the State:
From the Indian Act to Royal Commission
on Aboriginal People (3 ch )
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HIST 3375 Removal, Allotment,
Termination, Self-Determination (3 ch)
HIST 3378 First Nations and Canadian
Settler Society I (3 ch)
HIST 3379 First Nations and Canadian
Settler Society II (3 ch)
HIST 3408 American Radicalism and
Reform (3 ch)
HIST 3413 African America (3 ch)
PHIL 3331 Michel Foucalt's
HIST 3414 Imperial America (3 ch)
Discipline and Punish: The Birth HIST 3418 North American Slavery (3 ch)
of the Prison (3 ch)
HIST 3812 War and Diplomacy in the
Middle East, 1914-84 (3 ch)
HIST 4001 Heretics and Witches in
Europe, 1350-1650 (3 ch)
HIST 4003 Women in the Early Modern
Atlantic World (3 ch)
POLS 1503 Law, Power, and
HIST 4013 The Holocaust: Victims,
Politics (3 ch)
Perpetrators, Bystanders (3 ch)
POLS 2202 Canadian Politics (3 HIST 4341 History of the Atlantic
ch)
Provinces to Confederation (3 ch)
POLS 3251 Canadian
HIST 4342 History of the Atlantic
Federalism (3 ch)
Provinces after Confederation (3 ch)
HIST 4351 New Brunswick, 1784-1860 (3
ch)
POLS 3257 Law and Politics in
Canada (3 ch)
HIST 4352 New Brunswick, 1860 to the
POLS 3282 The Canadian
Present (3 ch)
Political System (3 ch)
HIST 4808 History of the Canadian
POLS 3633 International Public
Forces, 1953 to the Present (3 ch)
Law (3 ch)
PSYC 3263 Psychology of
Criminal Behaviour (3 ch)
(UNBSJ ONLY)
PSYC 3343 The Psychology of
Crime (3 ch)
HIST 4841 The Spy in History:
Intelligence in War and Diplomacy (3 ch)
HIST 5312 Native Peoples and Canadian
and American Policy, 1824-1982 (3 ch)
PHIL 1101 Critical Thinking (3 ch)
PHIL 3101 Introduction to Symbolic
Logic (3 ch)
PHIL 3205 Contemporary Ethical Theory
(3 ch)
PHIL 3302 Later Greek Philosophy (3 ch)
SOCI 3603 Criminology (3 ch)
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(UNBSJ: SOCI 3610)
PHIL 3315 20th Century Women
Philosophers (3 ch)
PHIL 3316 Michel Foucault on Sexuality
and the Self (3 ch)
PHIL 3601 Liberalism and Its Critics (3
ch)
POLS 2503 Women and Politics (3 ch)
POLS 3103 Rights in Conflict in North
America (3 ch)
SOCI 3636 Restorative Justice POLS 3211 Canadian Governance in the
(3 ch)
Global Era (3 ch)
POLS 3247 Trudeau’s Canada (3 ch)
POLS 3292 Self-Government and
Aboriginal Community (3 ch)
POLS 3343 The European Union in
SOCI 4336 Families, Law and
Transition (3 ch)
Social Policy (3 ch)
POLS 3415 Liberalism (3 ch)
SOCI 4337 Legal Responses to
POLS 3614 Ethics and International
Family Violence (3 ch)
Politics (3 ch)
POLS 3633 International Public Law (3
SOCI 4355 Sociology of Law (3 ch)
ch)
POLS 3713 The Global Economy:
(UNBSJ: SOCI 4613)
Production, Profits, Power, and People (3
ch)
SOCI 3613 Theories and
Perspectives in Criminology (3
ch)
(UNBSJ: SOCI 3610)
PSYC 3743 Drugs and Behaviour (3 ch)
(UNBSJ: PSYC 2752)
(UNBF: formerly PSYC 3023)
SOCI 1563 Violence and Society (3 ch)
SOCI 2603 Sociology of Deviance (3 ch)
(UNBSJ: SOCI 2603)
SOCI 2613 Delinquency (3 ch)
SOCI 3623 White Collar Crime (3 ch)
SOCI 3634 Violence Against Women (3
ch)
SOCI 3635 Conflict Resolution (3 ch)
SOCI 3900 Sociology of Policing (3 ch)
(UNBSJ Only)
SOCI 4313 Violence Against Women (3
ch)
SOCI 4603 Penology and Corrections (3
ch)
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(UNBSJ Only)
SOCI 4610 Crime and Social Control (6
ch)
SOCI 4623 Human Rights: Comparative
Perspectives (3 ch)
WLCS 3054 Crimes and Misdemeanors (3
ch)