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Course Level: Undergraduate

Topics vary by section, may be repeated for credit with different topic.

Course Level: Undergraduate

Selected Topics: Non-recurring (1-6)

Human Trafficking and the Media

This course examines the economic, social, cultural, and legal issues related to the trafficking of persons from an international and comparative perspective. It includes forced labor, the exploitation of immigrant females for domestic and sex services, the sale of children and irregular inter-country adoption, and the sale of wives legalized by transnational marriages. Students consider the trafficking prohibitions of the various international conventions, analyze legislative texts of domestic trafficking laws of selected jurisdictions worldwide, and analyze the U.S. statutes prohibiting trafficking in human beings.

Course Level: Undergraduate

Selected Topics: Non-recurring (1-6)

Research to Published Document

This course is a directed seminar in which students learn about the creation of theses, proposals, and research studies and create projects to demonstrate their skill in producing a finalized work product suitable for publication.

Course Level: Undergraduate

Selected Topics: Non-recurring (1-6)

Reproduction Rights and the Law

In this course students undertake a historical and legal analysis of the development of laws regulating human reproduction, with an emphasis on Supreme Court jurisprudence and current legislative efforts to both expand and curtail reproductive rights. Includes the development of privacy law; legislative and judicial efforts to balance privacy rights and other freedoms, such as religious freedom; enactment and interpretation of laws relating to the family/workplace balance (Title VII, the Pregnancy Discrimination Act, FMLA); and the implications of recent technological advances on reproductive rights.

Course Level: Undergraduate

Selected Topics: Non-recurring (1-6)

Foundations of Knowledge

This methodology course helps students identify what actually counts as knowing something in their study of social phenomena. Social scientists, lawyers, and philosophers must grapple with the question of what counts as a fact that actually describes what they believe they are observing. Making this decision inevitably affects one's understanding of what is being observed. This course examines the foundations of empirical, analytical, critical, and other modes of thought in order to enable them to evaluate the various methods used to study social institutions. Meets with JLS-604 001.

Course Level: Undergraduate

Selected Topics: Non-recurring (1-6)

Legal History Seminar

The two goals of this course are to provide students with the historical underpinnings of law in the Western world, and to introduce students to the different historic approaches that historians use to understand what counts as historic fact. Meets with JLS-606 001.

Course Level: Undergraduate

Selected Topics: Non-recurring (1-6)

Law and Religion

Examines the intersection of religion with American law, politics, and society. The course focuses on the role of religion in the constitutions, statues, and policies of federal and state governments, including U.S. Supreme Court decisions defining church-state law. Also examines the experiences and contributions of minority religious sects and politico-religious movements in American life. Meets with JLS-648 001.

Course Level: Undergraduate

Selected Topics: Non-recurring (1-6)

Girls and Gangs

This course examines girls' participation in American gang culture. The class considers the role girls play in both heterosexual and all female gangs. Included is an analysis of the reasons young women participate in gangs, as well as the impact of race and ethnicity on the organization and activities of female gangs and gang members.

Course Level: Undergraduate

Selected Topics: Non-recurring (1-6)

Law and Social Sciences

Historical and contemporary literature in law and the social sciences. Critical assessment of major research endeavors conducted by lawyers and social scientists, including plea bargaining, conflict resolution, the jury system, the legal profession, law and the mass media, and the function of law and public opinion in different societies. Meets with JLS-601 001.