FWIW, Louisiana State University offers a one-semester undergraduate course in Media Law – and also Media Ethics, which covers more than a soupcon of media-related law. Both are required for communications majors.
There are plenty of law classes available at the undergraduate level, however, they are usually associated with other major lines of study. A business student will learn some business/commercial law; an accounting student will learn some tax law, etc.
There may be a need for an adult “civics” class that would teach most of what you should know, but I don’t think that would fall into the domain of an accredited college course, but into the adult/continuing education field. As someone has already said, most of our law is jurisdictional, and what might be lawful in my city may conflict with your jurisdictional laws, statutes, etc.
“The Law” is just too broad a category to be properly incorporated into undergraduate studies. It would take up much too much room to be done properly. Same with medicine. You can take undergraduate biology, human anatomy, psychology and chemistry courses, but “medicine” is too broad a field to be done properly at the undergrad level.
If a college does not offer the courses you are interested in, check other local colleges. Chances are you will find a better “mix” somewhere else. All colleges and universities don’t offer the same majors so you will not find a big complement of related courses at one university as you might find at another.
The same applies at my university, Webster. I’ve taken Ethics in the Media (from a nun, no less), and I’m taking Media Law right now. We cover libel, privacy torts, commercial speech protections, and so forth. I believe it’s required for all communications majors - journalism, PR, audio production, etc.
I taught business law in business program at an aboriginal college. It was quite an eye-opener to teach white man’s law to folks who had been screwed over by it for so many generations. More to the point, though, was that a significant portion of the course had to be devoted to civics because without that foundation business law made no sense.
Muffin, is the Bar L. an actual degree? I knew that the Law Society of Upper Canada still had degree granting powers, but I didn’t know that they actually exercised it.
I think that in other Canadian provinces, after doing the bar course you just get your certificate entitling you to sign the rolls and practise as a lawyer - it’s not considered an academic degree. Different histories, of course.
Although a degree is not formally required to get into Canadian law schools (or wasn’t, last I heard), in practice most students have a degree of some sort. In my year, there were only about half a dozen who didn’t have a degree, out of an admission of 150 students. They had at least two years’ worth of university credits leading towards an undergrad degree.
Yup, they still exercise it. The paper on the wall says “. . . having successfully completed the Bar Admission course . . . was this day duly Called to the Degree of Barrister-at-Law and was admitted to practice at the Bar . . .” At the same convocation, the courts give a separate certificate enrolling the lawer, but this certificate is not a degree.