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4.00 Credits
Human boundaries are culturally drawn according to each culture's values, myths and preferences. Using theoretical and practical applications, this course examines conflict communication among diverse populations. Students will explore conflict and conflict management from the perspective of self and from the prospective of marginalized and empowered populations.
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4.00 Credits
Critical refers to various bodies of theory: psychoanalysis, the Frankfurt School, deconstruction, critical race studies, queer theory, feminist theory, postcolonial theory, and intersectionality that interrogate the essentialist assumptions that underlie social identities. "Justice" refers to an extra juridical concept of fairness that is focused on exposing and ending social inequalities. The aim of the Critical Theory course is to promote understanding of how categories such as race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, and class help people recognize and combat injustices. The Critical pedagogy in this course aims to develop collective critical consciousness for the purpose of transforming oppressive socio-political conditions. Students will analyze and critique theories of the Frankfurt School and the emancipatory works of Paulo Freire, and bell hooks. (4)
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4.00 Credits
This course explores the relationship between the legal system, law, and current controversial issues in society as they relate to race, ethnicity, class, and gender. Students will learn to analyze contemporary American legal issues using the theories of Durkheim, Marx, and Weber in addition to critical legal studies and critical race theory. (WCore: DE) (4)
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4.00 Credits
This course focuses on women's experiences with work and justice in America. This is an advanced course in feminist economic social justice. Much of the course will look at women and waged work. Students will interrogate the role of political economy in perpetuating male dominance (that is, creating "gender") and in reinforcing race, class, and ethnic hierarchies. The course seeks to equip students to investigate the theory, methods, and substance of feminist political economy through a focus on gender and work.
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4.00 Credits
This course provides an upper-division intensive reading and critique of environmental justice materials. An emerging national environmental justice movement has created frameworks for combatting the inequitably distributed health risks of advanced industrial society. This course links disparate impact, unequal protection, and environmental discrimination in relation to issues of class, gender and race. Topics relate societal practices as they affect environmental racism, future generations, nonhuman life, and global/non-Western societies.
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4.00 Credits
Critical examination that focuses on the structure, elements, and behavior of the criminal law. In-depth examination of criminal procedure and evidence, including jurisdiction, police powers of search and seizure, the right to counsel and pre-trial and trial procedures. Brief survey of the system of rules and standards by means of which the admissibility of evidence is determined. Close examination of the Constitution and its impact on federal and state criminal statutes, procedure, and evidence is accomplished through the analysis of case law.
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4.00 Credits
The importance of economic justice stems from the scarcity of resources: how should society allocate resources to achieve the social good? Invariably, questions of justice involve tradeoffs between fairness and efficiency. Such questions are inextricably related to religion, class, gender, poverty, ethnicity, sexual orientation, and so on. The course examines the concept of justice from the points of view of pre-market economies, classical liberalism, neo-classical economics, heterodox economics, Kenneth Arrow, John Rawls, Amartya Sen, among others. Prerequisites: ECON 105 or 253 or 263, or consent of instructor. Same as ECON/PHIL 365. (4)
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3.00 Credits
This course will explore the U.S. juvenile justice system, including its history, philosophical underpinnings, and biases. Through visits to detention facilities, interviews with individuals involved in the justice system and an exploration of comparative systems of youth incarceration and rehabilitation in the U.S and abroad, students will critically analyze and evaluate our current system and make recommendations for reform. This course fulfills the Engaging the World requirement.
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4.00 Credits
This course addresses historical and contemporary issues related to social justice movements, law, and morality in a pluralistic society. This course examines issues relative to the construction of deviance as it relates to AIDS, homosexuality, poverty, and prostitution. Students will explore how racial discrimination is legislated and perpetrated as a societal practice.
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4.00 Credits
This course will focus on the diversity of contemporary issues of U.S. immigration. Although we will start with a historical overview, the emphasis will be on contemporary issues, such as the origins and destination of (past and present) immigrants, conditions under which immigration takes place, politics of admission and immigration law, undocumented immigration, the labor force participation of immigrants, gender, family, and the children of immigrants. This course will be dealing with the topic of justice set against intensified global mobility and greater economic, political, cultural and technological interaction. Students will examine different perspectives on global migration and justice, contemplate our ethical and political responsibilities to migrants, as well as engage ongoing debates regarding the permanency and importance of political borders in an era of intense globalization. (4)
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