LAW641
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IDEAS OF THE FIRST AMENDMENT
Course Title
IDEAS OF THE FIRST AMENDMENT
Course Number
641
Min
2
Course Types
Letter Grading, Writing Requirement
Credit Type
GPA SEMINARS
Description
May be used to satisfy the Writing Requirement.
This course is designed as an introduction and study of major ideas-progenitors, influences, posited purposes, and themes-underlying and surrounding the First Amendment, particularly its freedoms of speech and conscience. It does not focus on basic First Amendment black-letter doctrines covered in Constitutional Law II. It instead goes beyond black-letter rules and invites students to think analytically and critically about how and why the First Amendment's protections and notions of free expression have developed and are still developing. The students will be graded on participation and the presentation on and writing of a final paper on a topic of their choosing (with guidance from the instructor), with encouragement towards analyzing a current cultural trend or technological development in light of the discussed First Amendment ideas. Prerequisite: Constitutional Law II.
This course is designed as an introduction and study of major ideas-progenitors, influences, posited purposes, and themes-underlying and surrounding the First Amendment, particularly its freedoms of speech and conscience. It does not focus on basic First Amendment black-letter doctrines covered in Constitutional Law II. It instead goes beyond black-letter rules and invites students to think analytically and critically about how and why the First Amendment's protections and notions of free expression have developed and are still developing. The students will be graded on participation and the presentation on and writing of a final paper on a topic of their choosing (with guidance from the instructor), with encouragement towards analyzing a current cultural trend or technological development in light of the discussed First Amendment ideas. Prerequisite: Constitutional Law II.