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Summer 2021
Mar 28,2024
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LAWS 251 - LAW, POWER AND INEQUALITY
This course engages in an exploration of contemporary issues of law and society through the lenses of power and inequality. lt examines structural inequalities in society, questioning why some forms of inequality persist in society, and how law constructs. legitimizes and subverts socio-economic inequalities. Using social science methodologies, it will critically analyze several dimensions of inequality in society such as class, race, gender, ethnicity, sexuality and environment through legal, historical and socio-cultural examination of contemporary issues such as poverty, education, environmental justice health care, access to food and water, right to voting, wage equality, etc., at the local. national and international level. The course will locus on the implications of structural inequalities and power structures on the sustainability of our legal, political. economic and social system. and will address the importance of social mobilization and the rule of law to establish intra and intergenerational equity.
0.000 TO 4.000 Credit hours
0.000 TO 4.000 Lecture hours

Levels: Undergraduate
Schedule Types: Hybrid, Lecture, Online Course

Law and Society Department

Course Attributes:
Gen Ed 2018, Gen Ed 18-Syst, Sust&Society, OLD GE TOPICS SOCIAL SCIENCE, WRITING INTENSIVE

Restrictions:
Must be enrolled in one of the following Levels:     
      Undergraduate

Prerequisites:
FOR LAWS 251

General Requirements:
Course or Test: CRWT 102
Minimum Grade of D
May not be taken concurrently. )


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