Annalycia Liston-Beck at the White Sands National Monument in New Mexico.
By Casey Tisdale ’17
Annalycia Liston-Beck came to Ohio University’s Honors Tutorial College as a Political Science major. Now a junior, she has added a Spanish minor, while picking up certificates in War and Peace and Law, Justice & Culture.
If that didn’t keep her busy enough, she’s very involved on campus as the Vice President of Students for Law, Justice & Culture, the treasurer for the Arabic Language Student Association, as well as an Assistant Resident Director of the Read-Johnson Complex.
Liston-Beck decided to apply for the Law, Justice & Culture certificate after getting involved with Students for Law, Justice & Culture her freshman year.
“Part of the role of SLJC is to raise awareness of the certificate, so that’s how I first learned about it.” She considered applying for the certificate that year, but it was the spring break trip to Northern Ireland that convinced her to apply for the LJC certificate.
“The spring break trip was just awesome,” Liston-Beck recalls. “I decided to apply for the certificate that following fall. I’m really interested in politics … and I wanted something I felt gave me a clear tie to other things I’m interested in as well.”
Discovering a Course on Law and Colonialism
Liston-Beck has taken many of the LJC certificate courses, but her favorite was Dr. Jennifer Fredette’s Law and Colonialism class.
“It’s an amazing class,” Liston-Beck explains. “There aren’t that many courses that focus on the way that colonialism worked, or that … dissect what it means to have a legal system that was designed during colonialism and the lasting impacts they have on society.”
Liston-Beck also remarks that the certificate helped her take classes that she would not have normally taken. The certificate provides structure to assist students interested in interdisciplinary coursework, she noted, and that structure gives a framework to students interested in these topics.
Her advice to any prospective applicants is simply to apply. Also, to start thinking about the classes that it offers and consider what it makes you want to do.
“It takes a long time to get a certificate,” she says. “You want to make sure you get in the right one for you, and the Law, Justice & Culture certificate was perfect for me.”
Next Steps: Middle East or Peace Corps?
Liston-Beck has a strong desire to improve her Arabic. After graduation, she’s considering applying for scholarships to go abroad to the Middle East for a year. If that doesn’t work out, she’ll apply to join the Peace Corps in the Middle East.
“Eventually, I’ll go and get my master’s, but that’s way down the road,” she says.
The Law, Justice & Culture certificate program is a competitive certificate program that accepts 25 students every year. Interested students are encouraged to apply to the Law, Justice & Culture certificate by Oct. 21, 2016.
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