The History Department offers an undergraduate certificate in legal history for non-majors and a specialization in legal history for majors. Majors should declare the legal history specialization through the Academic Advising Center. Courses taken for the legal history specialization will also count toward the history major. Non-majors can apply for the certificate here:
https://admissions.ufl.edu/apply/certificates
Requirements
The certificate/specialization requires 9 credits in approved classes. At least 3 credits must come from the following classes:
- AMH 3551: Constitutional History of the United States to 1877
- AMH 3552: Constitutional History of the United States Since 1877
- AMH 3558: United States Legal History
- AMH 4319: Crime and Punishment in American History
- AMH 4550: Origins of the U.S. Constitution
An additional 3 credits must come from the following classes:
- ASH 3931: Imperial Japan
- EUH/LAH 3931: Special Topics in European History (Inquisitions)
- EUH 3931: Special Topics in European History (The Holocaust in the Courtroom)
- EUH 3931: Special Topics in European History (Crime and Punishment in Totalitarian Europe)
- LAH 3931: Special Topics in Latin American History (Crime and Criminality in the Americas)
- WOH 3205: History of Human Rights
The remaining 3 credits can be taken from either list. Other courses offered on an irregular basis may qualify for the legal history certificate/specialization.
Spring 2025 Offerings
Group A:
- AMH 3551: Constitutional History of the United States until 1870, E. Dale
- AMH 3931: Speakeasies to Suburbs, P. Glotzer
Group B:
- EUH 3033: History of the Holocaust, N. Goda
- EUH 3035: Nazi Germany, M. Hart
- LAH 3931: History of Asylum, F. Bretones
Fall 2024 Offerings
Group A:
- AMH 3340: Disability in America, S. Noll
Group B:
- ASH/WOH 3931: Global Histories of Prostitution, S. Chang
- EUH 3932: Comparative European Law in Empire, M. Deardorff
- LAH 3931: Modern Central American History, H. Vrana
- WOH 3931: Comparative Truth and Reconciliation, R. Laue
For questions on specific courses, write to the Department’s Undergraduate Coordinator, Professor Jessica Harland-Jacobs or certificate coordinator Professor Elizabeth Dale.