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3.00 Credits
This course surveys major themes in the settlement of the British colonies, the crisis of the American Revolution, and the growth of American society and politics. E. Cook. Winter.
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3.00 Credits
The focus of this course is to examine empirical evidence to determine if an individual's social context has the ability to impact her political behavior. We examine two major questions: to what extent do we observe correlation between individuals actions and those within a social framework and to what extent may we identify a causal relationship between the political behavior of the social group and the individual. Specific readings are drawn from collective action problems, information flow within networks, network formation, and the extent to which we can observ e respondents ' voting behaviors that are consistent with the ir discussant s' surveys or field experimen ts. B. Sinclair. Spring
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3.00 Credits
PQ: ECON 19800 or higher. This course combines basic microeconomic theory and tools with contemporary environmental and resources issues and controversies to examine and analyze public policy decisions. Theoretical points include externalities, public goods, common-property resources, valuing resources, benefit/cost analysis, and risk assessment. Topics include pollution, global climate change, energy use and conservation, recycling and waste management, endangered species and biodiversity, nonrenewable resources, congestion, economic growth and the environment, and equity impacts of public policies. S. Shaikh. Autumn.
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3.00 Credits
This course surveys the history of African Americans in Chicago, from before the twentieth century to the present. Themes include migration and its impact, origins and effects of class stratification, relation of culture and cultural endeavor to collective consciousness, rise of the institutionalized religions, facts and fictions of political empowerment, and the correspondence of black lives and living to indices of city wellness. Texts include autobiography and poetry, sociology, documentary photography, political science, and criminology, as well as more straightforward historical analysis. A. Green. Autumn.
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3.00 Credits
PQ: Third- or fourth-year standing, or consent of instructor. This lecture/discussion course examines the development of laws and legal institutions that address environmental problems and advance environmental policies. Topics include the common law background to traditional environmental regulation, the explosive growth and impact of federal environmental laws in the second half of the twentieth century, regulations and the urban environment, and the evolution of local and national legal structures in response to environmental challenges. Autumn.
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3.00 Credits
This course introduces the constitutional doctrines and political role of the U.S. Supreme Court, focusing on its evolving constitutional priorities and its response to basic governmental and political problems (e.g., maintenance of the federal system, promotion of economic welfare, protection of individual and minority rights). G. Rosenberg. Winter.
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3.00 Credits
PQ: PLSC 28800 or equivalent, and consent of instructor. This course examines selected civil rights and civil liberties decisions of U.S. courts, with emphasis on the political context. Topics include speech, race, and gender. G. Rosenberg. Spring.
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3.00 Credits
Open only to second-year students who are beginning the LLSO major. This course introduces legal reasoning in a customary legal system. The first part examines the analytical conventions that lawyers and judges purport to use. The second part examines fundamental tenets of constitutional interpretation. Both judicial decisions and commentary are used, although the case method is emphasized. D. Hutchinson. Autumn. II. Letters
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3.00 Credits
This course examines the ways American law has treated legal issues involving race. Two episodes are studied in detail: the criminal law of slavery during the antebellum period and the constitutional attack on state-imposed segregation in the twentieth century. The case method is used, although close attention is paid to litigation strategy and judicial opinion. D. Hutchinson. Spring.
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3.00 Credits
PQ: Consent of instructor. This course is a study of Abraham Lincoln's view of the Constitution, based on close readings of his writings, plus comparisons to judicial responses to Lincoln' s policies . D. Hutchinson. Winter.
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