Ready to get high value for your education dollars?  Tired of having to choose between courses you enjoy and courses you feel pressured to take only because they will lead to a seemingly guaranteed career?  The Law and Liberal Arts major offers you high value for your time and effort in addition to allowing you to make the connection between the world of the liberal arts and an exciting career outcome!  Combine your passion for the liberal arts (history, political science, English, criminal justice, etc.) and your desire to graduate with a well-defined career path ahead of you.

As you major in the Law and Liberal Arts, consider the exciting variety of courses you will be taking.  You are not just preparing for a career in law, business, or some other worthy endeavor.  By taking our curriculum you will also receive a first-class education and graduate from UF with the key cultural literacy skills that will allow you to enter the elite ranks of those who set policy in this state and the country as a whole.  Become a leader by majoring in the Law and Liberal Arts!

Highlights of the curriculum:
We desire that all our law graduates possess a good knowledge of the economy and how it affects the law.  Our curriculum is unique in allowing you to choose which particular course you will take to fulfill this and other goals in our major.  Imagine taking, for example, a course such as economic geography that allows you to study globalization, the world economy, and the various cultures of the world - all in one course!

Having been to law school ourselves, we also understand the need for our students to understand the best of political science.  We therefore ask our students to take courses such as American Politics in order to explain the political dimension of law and legal processes.  We also offer a popular International Law course that highlights the relevance of law in a global context and gives you the opportunity to think about exciting careers in Washington, D.C. and organizations such as the United Nations.

We also are firm believers that legal professionals who understand their own history and culture have a better chance of assuming leadership roles later on in their careers.  You will thus have the chance to take American, European, and Global history courses that will count towards your law degree and expand your horizons at the same time.

Our law courses are of course the foundation for the overall program.  Did you know that many first-year law students fail or quit law school after the first year because they do not understand the basics of the legal system and culture in the first place?  By taking our curriculum and courses such as Constitutional Law, Criminal Law, Business Law, Administrative Law, American Legal History, Judicial Process, and electives such as Law and Film you will gain the "inside knowledge" you need to succeed on day one in law school or any other endeavor you choose!

Interested in an even broader exposure to the liberal arts?  We ask our students to take courses that will be enjoyable but that will also round out their reading, writing, and oral communication skills as well.  Theater, women's studies, philosophy, criminal justice, anthropology, art, music, foreign language, English, and more are all part of our curriculum as well!  In many ways, Law and Liberal Arts is "two majors for the price of one": you get legal training and a first-class liberal arts education as well for your valuable tuition dollars.  Have fun in college while maintaining focus on a well-respected legal career path at the same time!