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Subject: Law (Grad) (LAWS)
CRN: 26438
Online: Some Synchronous | Lecture
Online
Requirements Met:
CommGood/Changemaking
LLM US Law Elective
This course will explore the history of race in the law and how race today is a significant factor in matters of most importance in people's daily lives. Students will discuss how the American institutions that control employment, housing, education, voting and the justice system continue to struggle with institutional bias and racism. Students will also explore and discuss the legal and policy issues, past and present, facing these instituitions. Students will discuss the vlaues of the people in power when certain laws were adopted and how those values may impact decision-making This will be done under the umbrella of the University of St Thomas' School of Law mission statement: To integrate faith and reason in the search for truth through focus on morality and social justice. The final is a paper which will satisfy the upper level writing requirement.
2 Credits