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Introduction to the epic as complex and comprehensive literature -- which includes romance, drama, history. Gods and goddesses, kings and queens, heroes and heroines, ships and swords. Cultures and nations celebrating their past, present, and future.

Students will consider the autobiography as a powerful social and cultural document, on that is an index to the ways in which people conceive of and recreate history itself.

Small seminar requiring substantial participation and regular writing. Uses major literary, historical and cinematic works to explore tension between conscience and law. Works include: A Man for All Seasons (Bolt), An Enemy of the People (Ibsen/Miller), The Stranger (Camus), Sophie's Choice, Emma (Zinn), King: Montgomery to Memphis , The Front, Rights on Trial (Kinoy), Amistad, Blind Ambition (John Dean), and Long Goodbye (Colby).

Examines ways in which law, especially constitutional law pronounced by the courts, influences the adoption, legal and political strategies, and public perception of major public policy issues. Several short topics, such as same-sex marriage, teaching of evolution in public schools, and Internment of Japanese-Americans during WWII. Major topics include reproductive freedom, right to refuse medical treatment, and end-of-life healthcare decisions. Interactive lecture; occasional small-group discussion; two objective hourly exams; writing policy memo may substitute for one exam.

This course will explore issues of inequality within the construction and application of the law. Why are some actions defined as criminal and not others? Why are some groups more likely to come into contact with the criminal justice system than others? This course will examine the historical construction of the American criminal justice system. It will also explore the interplay between law, crime and various social institutions like the family, the welfare system, and the economy.

The study of writing, teaching of writing, and collaboration. Intended for tutors in the Writing Center who develop a tutoring philosophy based on writing theories and research. Mid-way through the semester, students tutor two hours per week.

Prerequisites: ENGLWRIT 112 or 113

Introduction to humanitarian law. Topics include theory and history of international human rights law, growth and nature of human rights organizations, regional human rights schemes, cross-cultural contexts and meanings for human rights, the politics and law of immigration and refugees, international criminal law and other mechanisms for humanitarian intervention. Prerequisite: course in Legal Studies or international politics. Prerequisite: LEGAL 250.

This course will explore the nature of freedom in the United States, focusing on constitutional guarantees founded in the historical role of the law. Issues covered will be Privacy, Obscenity, Race, War on Drugs, Freedom from and of Religion, Right to Counsel, and Search and Seizure. The objective will be to trace the evolution of these issues rooted in the Bill of Rights and Supreme Court doctrine. Case law will be read and analyzed in order to extract judicial theory. Scholarly arguments supporting and critiquing American jurisprudence will also be discussed.

Through literature, art, dance, music, ethnography, and cultural criticism, this interdisciplinary course seeks to explore how and why the concept of the primitive is foundational to modernist texts and works of art. (Gen.Ed. AL, G)