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


This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :
Law and Society
Semester Offered: First Semester
Credits (Range): 3 hours
Attribute: 3SS

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. Enrollment Limit: 25.
Instructor: D. Steward
Prerequisites & Notes
Prerequisite: One course in Sociology.


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