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Tuesday Class Options:

Honors: HONR 150 - America: The Reality and the Dream: 11:00 AM - 12:20 PM
These variable topics course explores how people’s lives are connected to systems of politics, culture, and media. These systems confer varying levels of power within societies and employ representations that reflect and produce people’s experiences. Developing skills to critically analyze and critique cultural artifacts, this course seeks to cultivate ideas of curiosity, empathy, and socially conscious ways of being in the world. Upon completion of the course, students will be able to explain and evaluate key concepts from primary source materials, while exploring intersections of agency and identity within larger social and cultural systems. Cultural productions examined in this course might include political institutions, literature, philosophical inquiry, cultural artifacts, historical sources, embodied/experiential sources, space and place, social movements, and collective behavior. 

POLSC 350 - Political Theory: 2:00PM-3:20PM
Study of selections from both classical and contemporary social philosophers who explore such concepts as natural law, rights, justice, the role of government, the role of law, political obligation, and liberty. Required of all majors.

Friday Class Options:

CJS 320 - Criminal and Civil Procedures in Court: 9:00AM-9:50AM
This course examines the history, traditions, philosophy and ethical dilemmas underlying the courts in the United States justice system. Students will be introduced to the origins and developments of the United States courts; the issues of subject matter and geographic jurisdiction of the state and federal courts, the dynamics of the courthouse workgroups consisting of attorneys, judges, and litigants; and the processes related to the prosecution of criminal and civil cases in federal and state courts.