As a graduate in this major, you will be expected to meet these specific student learning objectives:

• Develop effective and persuasive analytical, writing and communication skills, and apply these skills to complex contemporary social and legal problems;
• Acquire substantive knowledge and understanding about the institutions and beliefs embedded in legal practices and specific public policies;
• Critically examine legal, political and economic institutions as they relate to social and policy choices;
• Critically evaluate theories and methods used to examine tradeoffs in policy and legal decisions;
• Analyze, display and interpret data to explain social and policy issues;
• Understand the role of ethics and the ethical dimension of laws and policy making.