Legal Studies, MLS (Online)

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Official catalog page for this program

Foundation Courses

• LS 6101 — Introduction to Legal Studies 1: Law and Legal Reasoning
• LS 6102 — Introduction to Legal Studies 2

Core Courses

From the catalog

Complete at least four of the following:

• Choose 12 semester hours from:
  • LS 6110 — Law of Information and Records
  • LS 6120 — Law and Strategy
  • LS 6130 — Negotiation and Advocacy
  • LS 6140 — Data Regulation and Compliance
  • LS 6150 — Law and Organizational Management
  • LS 6155 — Legal Foundations of Public Policy

Electives

From the catalog

Students who do not take a concentration must take 6–12 semester hours from this list to complete the degree:

• Choose 12 semester hours from:
  • LS 6160 — Regulation and Global Business Strategies
  • LS 6170 — Financial Transactions
  • LS 6180 — Health Law Survey
  • LS 6181 — Healthcare Regulation and Compliance
  • LS 6182 — Patient Records, Privacy, and Security
  • LS 6210 — Special Topics in Employee Rights and Employer Obligations
  • LS 6211 — Antidiscrimination Law
  • LS 6212 — Wages and Benefits
  • LS 6230 — Intellectual Property Survey
  • LS 6231 — Identifying and Securing Intellectual Property Rights
  • LS 6232 — Intellectual Property and Media
  • LS 6235 — Current Issues in Law and Public Policy

Concentrations (choose 1)

Concentration in Business Law

• LS 6160 — Regulation and Global Business Strategies
• LS 6170 — Financial Transactions
• One of:
  • LS 6230 — Intellectual Property Survey
  • LS 6210 — Special Topics in Employee Rights and Employer Obligations

Concentration in Health Law

• LS 6180 — Health Law Survey
• LS 6181 — Healthcare Regulation and Compliance
• LS 6182 — Patient Records, Privacy, and Security

Concentration in Human Resources Law

• LS 6210 — Special Topics in Employee Rights and Employer Obligations
• LS 6211 — Antidiscrimination Law
• LS 6212 — Wages and Benefits

Concentration in Intellectual Property Law

• LS 6230 — Intellectual Property Survey
• LS 6231 — Identifying and Securing Intellectual Property Rights
• LS 6232 — Intellectual Property and Media

Concentration in Public Law and Policy

• LS 6155 — Legal Foundations of Public Policy
• LS 6235 — Current Issues in Law and Public Policy

• From the catalog

  Complete one of the following:

• One of:
  • LPSC 7311 — Strategizing Public Policy
  • PPUA 6500 — Principles of Public Administration
  • PPUA 6502 — Economic Analysis for Policy and Planning
  • PPUA 6506 — Techniques of Policy Analysis
  • PPUA 6507 — Institutional Leadership and the Public Manager
  • PPUA 6551 — Nonprofit Organizations and Social Change
  • PPUA 6552 — The Nonprofit Sector in Civil Society and Public Affairs

GPA requirements

• 30 total semester hours required Minimum 3.000 GPA required

Parsed from the catalog by NU Map; the structured machine copy is in this college's JSON for the 2027 catalog, under legal-studies-mls-online, and the official page is the authority.