LAW 101 | Intro to American Law: Surveys United States legal system: presents structure and methods of the legal system and fundamentals of several substantive areas of law. |
LAW 102 | Intro to Criminal Law: Explores criminal law and statutes using primary and secondary sources. |
LAW 103 | Intro to Criminal Investigation: Examines the constitutional limitations on police officers’ authority to detain suspects, search them and their property, and interrogate them. |
LAW 104 | Intro to Business Law: Examines the context of everyday commerce, shaped by contract, tort, business entity, and securities law, to uncover how the law both affects and is affected by business. |
LAW 201 | Intro to Envvironmental Law and Policy: An introduction to environmental policy and law, with an overview of major themes and the regulatory framework. Focuses on community resilience. |
LAW 202 | Intro to Public International Law: An introduction to the origins, application, and main actors in international law, international institutions, and international legal processes. |
LAW 203 | Controversies in Constitutional Law: In-depth examination of five to seven landmark Supreme Court cases over the course of the term, spending three to four class sessions on each case. |
LAW 204 | Immigration and Citizenship: Interdisciplinary study of the way in which the American legal order has constituted citizenship. |
LAW 250 | Legal Research: Students investigate sources of law and sharpen analytical skills using issues arising in everyday life and scenarios requiring legal information to develop critical legal information literacy skills. *2 credits |
LAW 301 | Youth and Social Change: Explore how adults act on youth through law, mass media, policy, and social science, while investigating youth as agents of change, acting on their own perspective of law and justice. |
LAW 304 | American Law and Families: Examines the family through a legal lens: the rules that affect legal relationships among family members and laws related to family property. |
LAW 305 | Contracts in Society: Examines business deals as tools that shape personal and social realities, including related power dynamics and the nuances and limits of language. |
LAW 310 | Environmental Regulations: Provides students with an understanding of laws regulating activities that affect the environment as well as the skills to analyze and apply these laws to current issues. |
LAW 416 | Transitional Justice: Historical and theoretical overview of the conflicts and international mechanisms, with a focus on cultural, historical, and legal forces that shape postconflict peace-building efforts. |
LAW 410 | Legal Secrets: Examines the different types of information that the law designates as “secret”. |
LAW 410 | Race and Law: This course explores the issue of race within American law and jurisprudence through historical and contemporary contexts. Students will gain an understanding of how claims about responsibility, community, rationality, equality, justice, and democracy have been used to justify or resist racial segregation, integration, access, and expulsion. |
LAW 415 | Human Rights, Law, and Culture: The history, theory, and practice of human rights from a global perspective. |
CRES 101 | Intro to Conflict Resolution: Explores up-to-date conflict management theories and practical steps to communicate effectively in sensitive situations. |
CRES 351 | Roles of a Diplomat: Students learn about diplomats and diplomatic practice in international conflict situations. |
CRES 430 | Working Internationally: The theoretical, historical, socio-political, and practical contexts of working, volunteering, doing internships and field research internationally. |
CRES 415 | Conflict and Gender: Focuses on the multiple relationships among conflict, violence, and gender in situations of warfare, militarization, and peacemaking. |
CRES 420 | Restorative Justice: Provides a critical introduction to the principles and practices of restorative justice. |
CRES 435 | Israel and Palestine: Examination of the Palestinian and Israeli conflict. Evolution of the political struggle with a broad look at the human side of conflict, and examination of critical negotiation issues. |
CRES 440 | Dialogue Across Difference I: Introduction to processes and facilitation of discourse and dialogue, with special emphasis on participation. Sequence with CRES 441. *2 credits |
CRES 441 | Dialogue Across Difference II: Advanced course in dialogic processes and facilitation, with special emphasis on context. Sequence with CRES 440. *2 credits |
CRES 445 | Conflicts of Incarceration: Issues of crime, incarceration, and justice within the Western context. |