WRIT 125 14 - Watching the Supreme Court

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Wellesley College

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Viti (The Writing Program) In this course, students will read and write about landmark United States Supreme Court opinions, and in doing so, locate important themes and trends in the Court's decisions, beginning with the power of judicial review in Marbury v. Madison, and jumping ahead to more recent decisions about the Fourteenth Amendment and equal educational opportunity (Brown v. Board of Education), privacy rights (Gris-wold v. Connecticut and Roe v. Wade), executive privilege (U.S. v. Nixon), and federalism (Bush v. Gore). We will also read and analyze essays and reports by journalists and legal scholars who comment on the Supreme Court, including Laurence Tribe, Bob Woodward, Nina Totenberg, Jeffrey Rosen, and Jeffrey Toobin. Prerequisite: None Distribution: None Semester: Spring Unit: 1.0

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3.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.wellesley.edu

Phone Number:

(781) 283-1000

Regional Accreditation:

New England Association of Schools and Colleges

Calendar System:

Semester

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