POLT 287 - Constitutional Law: Civil Rights and Civil Liberties

FC SSCI

4 credits
This course is designed to provide a broad introduction to American constitutional law pertaining to civil rights and civil liberties, with particular attention paid to challenges of 20th- and 21st-century jurisprudence. Class debates and fact pattern response papers will help students to sharpen their understanding of the complex jurisprudential debates and develop persuasive arguments about the law on such issues as freedom of speech, search and seizure, abortion rights, desegregation, and voting rights.

Prerequisites: one course in American politics.