Prerequisite: RCC. Students will read and discuss modern scholarly and literary texts related to inequality in everyday life. Areas covered may include inequalities with respect to race, gender, ethnicity, sexuality, immigration status, and disability in the contexts of housing, recreation, education, entertainment, the internet, and more. The course will explore the legal underpinnings of the inequalities brought to light by the authors, as well as practical steps attorneys can take when working on such issues. Students taking the course for third semester legal writing credit will research, draft, and revise several practice documents of increasing complexity related to issues of inequality. Students taking the course for the upper-level writing requirement will research, outline, draft, and revise a scholarly research paper on a chosen relevant topic approved by the instructor. Limited enrollment. STUDENTS MUST ENROLL IN THIS COURSE NUMBER TO RECEIVE THIRD-SEMESTER WRITING CREDIT.
Law, Inequality, and Everyday Life
Course number
LAW 577G
Credit hours
3 Credit Hours
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