Status
O
Activity
LEC
Title (text only)
PSCI234 - CHANGING AMER ELECTORATE
Term
2017A
Subject area
PSCI
Section number only
001
Section ID
PSCI234001
Meeting times
TR 1030AM-1130AM
Meeting location
GODDARD LAB 101
Instructors
HOPKINS, DANIEL
Description
By examining Supreme Court decisions in light of works on American history, politics, and political theory, we will explore legal, political, and philosophical debates on civil liberties today. Readings will consider litigation of the 1st, 2d, 4th, 5th, 8th, and 14th Amendments. Issues will include struggles over freedom of religion, speech, privacy, and property rights, analyzed in the context of American cultural traditions and hierarchies; and conflicts over the rights of suspects, criminals and citizens, analyzed in the context of racial and class tensions, criminial violence, and anti-terrorist security concerns.
Course number only
234
Use local description
No