Legal Studies
HRH - Health, Recreation, and Human Services · 22 one-credit courses
Students explore workplace and consumer law with a focus on basic rights and responsibilities at a place of work and the legal aspects of buying, selling and renting goods and services.
Students explore the legal relationship between the government and the citizen with an emphasis on criminal law.
Students learn about laws affecting family members through the use of realistic scenarios and case studies.
Students develop project design and management skills to extend and enhance competencies and skills in other CTS courses through contexts that are personally relevant.
Students examine a broad range of legal issues relating to personal relationships.
Students learn about contracts of employment, unions and collective bargaining, employment insurance, and workers’ compensation.
Students identify laws related to the environment and describe how new environmental information affects the law. Students also examine the role of groups and individuals in bringing about changes in environmental law.
Students learn about the history of Aboriginal Law and its development in Canada by examining leading cases and challenging issues.
Students identify and describe the issues and legal considerations that may arise when individuals travel domestically and internationally.
Students develop project design and management skills to extend and enhance competencies and skills in other CTS courses through contexts that are personally relevant.
Students develop project design and management skills to extend and enhance competencies and skills in other CTS courses through contexts that are personally relevant.
Students apply prior learning and demonstrate the attitudes, skills and knowledge required by an external organization to achieve a credential/credentials or an articulation.
Students identify laws relating to real, personal and intellectual properties and investigate the processes of buying and selling real property and the legal implications associated with Internet transactions.
Students examine and apply methods such as negotiation, mediation, arbitration, adjudication and litigation, and identify challenging issues related to the dispute resolution methods.
Students explore the legal meaning of negligence and legal actions relating to negligence.
Students learn about laws relating to starting a business, running a business and ending a business. Students also explore challenging issues that affect small business.
Students explore how controversial issues evoke responses that may bring about changes in the law and describe a wide variety of strategies that may be used for changing the law.
Students analyze in detail landmark decisions and their influence on society.
Students examine the criminal justice system, including the criminal process and the roles and responsibilities of the participants. Students also explore challenging issues and law-related careers.
Students develop project design and management skills to extend and enhance competencies and skills in other CTS courses through contexts that are personally relevant.
Students develop project design and management skills to extend and enhance competencies and skills in other CTS courses through contexts that are personally relevant.
Students apply prior learning and demonstrate the attitudes, skills and knowledge required by an external organization to achieve a credential/credentials or an articulation.