POLI 346b - Seminar in American Politics

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Vassar College

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The politics of rights has often been at the center of political contention and aspirations for political change in the US. This seminar explores various meanings and consequences of this politics through an examination of legal culture in everyday life, the constitution of rights discourse, cause lawyering, social movements, and the role of courts in fostering and hindering transformative change in the contemporary US. Among the issues to be considered are: ways in which law does/does not speak from, for, or to the disempowered; the character and impact of lawyers' political activism; and courts' responses to movement activism.The seminar requires everyone to participate fully in weekly discussions, to compose short papers on assigned readings, to write a research paper on subject of the student's choice related to the seminar and to present her/his findings to the seminar. Ms. Villmoare Prerequisite: by permission of instructor, normally an intermediate-level course in American politics. One 2-hour period.

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1.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.vassar.edu

Phone Number:

(845) 437-7000

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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