Constitutional Law: Equal Protection and Civil Rights

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Explores the development of civil rights policies in the U.S. Reading materials will include Supreme Court opinions, as well as social scientific and legal scholarship. Examines many forms of past and present legal oppression in the U.S., with attention to race/ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, and immigration status. Allows students to better understand legal equality/inequality in the U.S. and to better understand the courts in the U.S. as political and policy-making institutions. (USGP) May not be taken for credit by students who received credit for: PSCI 390 -6 and 413. Enrollment Requirement(s): Completion of the Lower-Division General Education requirement in U.S. Constitution (Dc). Satisfies GE area: UD4