Hons in Legal Studies at St. Jerome's University in Waterloo, Canada is a honours degree in Legal Studies programme. The programme runs for 4 years, delivered in a hybrid format. Tuition for international students is CAD 58,000 per year (CAD 9,000 per year for local students).
Also offered as: Bachelor's Degree
At a glance
Degree:Honours Degree
Field:Legal Studies
Duration: 4 years
Delivery: Hybrid
Local tuition: CAD 9,000 / year
International tuition: CAD 58,000 / year
Last reviewed September 2026 ·
Program details
Overview
This Honours undergraduate program at St. Jerome's University, federated with the University of Waterloo, applies an interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary approach to studying law and its relationship to political, social, economic, philosophical, and cultural structures. Coursework examines how law and legal institutions intersect with systems of inequality, including critical perspectives on colonialism, capitalism, and patriarchy, and covers subject areas such as criminal law, psychology and law, animal law, philosophy of law, and the history of ancient law, alongside research methods and legal writing. Courses are offered both on campus and online. As an Honours credential, the program provides a more concentrated course of study than the department's four-year general Legal Studies degree, and the department also offers a Legal Studies minor. The program suits students seeking a rigorous, critical grounding in legal studies, drawn to social-justice and critical-theory perspectives on law, including those considering graduate study or careers that draw on legal analysis outside conventional legal practice.
Application Deadline:St. Jerome's University is federated with the University of Waterloo, so its undergraduate programs are admitted through Waterloo's own process rather than a separate SJU deadline. For programs other than Engineering, which cover all six SJU majors, the application deadline for September 2027 entry is February 1, 2027, with supporting documents such as transcripts due by February 15, 2027; Waterloo's deadlines page states plainly that 'international students have the same deadlines as those listed above.' Waterloo does not publish a fixed opening date on this page, and admission is not described as rolling: applications and documents received after the published dates are considered only as space allows. These are institution-wide dates; this programme publishes no deadline of its own.
