Courses

This course examines the origins, nature, and foundations of the American Constitutional system with special emphasis on the Federalist and Anti-Federalist debates and the writing of the Constitution.

This interdisciplinary seminar examines the seminal texts and ideas of America's founding. Through the works of William Bradford, Anne Bradstreet, Benjamin Franklin, James Madison, James Fenimore Cooper, and others, students will explore how early American and colonial concepts of virtue, justice, and citizenship contributed to the founding of a nation. This course includes an optional study-away component, to Washington, D.C.

An examination on the western frontier from colonial period to 1890 with an emphasis on the political, cultural, environmental, social, economic, and military processes that shaped westward expansion and American civilization.

Demographic and social characteristics, communal and political organization, and problems of identity and assimilation within the American Jewish community.

This course examines the purpose and structure of American courts; the selection of judges; the role of jurors; how federal courts set agendas, decide cases, and impact legal policy; the role of interest groups and public opinion on judicial behavior. This course is writing-intensive; students will produce a central research project that asks and answers an empirical question about the judicial system, broadly described. Writing is a significant component of this course.(AG/PT).

A critical evaluation of the role courts play in the American criminal justice system. systems and the federal district, Circuit Court of Appeals, and U.S. Supreme Court

A critical evaluation of the role courts play in the American criminal justice system. and federal level. First 26-27 Tarleton Catalog 103 in a laboratory environment. This study will include the use of including MPE+ and associated connectivity kits.

Students study the history of the development of musical theatre (excluding evaluation of musical theatre.

From its beginning to the present: Cooper, Hawthorne, Melville, and Twain through such moderns as Faulkner, Hemingway, Wolfe, Ellison, Bellow, and Morrison.

A study of the novels and pertinent criticism from the beginnings in America. (WI).