First Year Seminar 191SBS17 - FYS- Everyday Law

In this course, we will explore ways we observe, understand, and use the law everyday. As a First Year Seminar, we will navigate together much of what UMass has to offer for your personal, professional, and academic development while interacting with topics of an interdisciplinary field of study. Students will be introduced to approach the study of the law in action (a product of social, cultural, economic, political, and economic forces) rather than by the books (a logical system of rules). We will engage with critical and reflexive approaches to the study of law while, at the same time, participating in a dynamic environment that introduces students to campus resources, events, and much more for a smooth transition to your first year at UMass.

First year (Fr or Soph) In this course, we will explore ways we observe, understand, and use the law everyday. As a First Year Seminar, we will navigate together much of what UMass has to offer for your personal, professional, and academic development while interacting with topics of an interdisciplinary field of study; Law & Society. Students will be introduced to approach the study of the law in action (a product of social, cultural, economic, political, and economic forces) rather than by the books (a logical system of rules).[1] We will engage with critical and reflexive approaches to the study of law while, at the same time, participating in a dynamic environment that introduces students to campus resources, events, and much more for a smooth transition to your first year at UMass.