This course provides students with an introduction to the American legal system and to the development of American constitutional law. Practitioners from the fields of law and criminal justice will provide an added dimension to the course. Open to Seniors. This course introduces students to the study and analysis of current and future trends in American life. Students will explore the development of policy-making on such domestic issues as education, welfare, voting patterns, discrimination and others to be determined.
Reading includes literature by political scientists, sociologists, journalists, and historians.
Students will produce a position paper using computer search and data-bank systems. Speakers from university, government, and public policy foundations provide special lectures. History 440 does not fulfill the non-U.S. history requirement. Open to Seniors. This course permits students to research a topic of interest to them in the political, economic, or social history of the 20th century.