SOCI 258 - Security, Secrecy, and Spectacle: Surveillance Society Since 9/11

3SS New Course Added 10/24/2006
Spring Semester. How are legal institutions changing in the wake of 9/11? We will sketch an answer to this question in this course, both by expanding our cognitive toolkits to incorporate insights of recent/contemporary social theorists (e.g., the growth of panoptic surveillance in the modern world) and by exploring the profound changes now taking place with respect to habeas corpus, the growth of hidden prisons and wire-tapping, etc.

Prerequisites & Notes
Prerequisite: One course in Sociology or consent of instructor.

Enrollment Limit: 25

Mr. Steward

Credits: 3 Credits