Lehrman American Studies Center

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Course level: 300

• American Political Thought

  by Jim Harrigan

  Course Objectives: This course examines American political thought from the period immediately prior to the Civil War to the present. America has undergone tremendous changes over the course of its history and many contend that there is precious little left…

• Civil Rights and Liberties

  by Jim Harrigan

  Course Objectives: This course, the second of a two-part sequence, examines individual rights in light of the American constitutional regime. We will be examining the Bill of Rights and subsequent Amendments to the United States Constitution in great detail, with…

• Constitutional Law: National Powers

  by Jim Harrigan

  Course Objectives: This course, the first of a two-part sequence, introduces students to the fundamental concepts and issues of American constitutional law. Our emphasis in this course will be on national powers. The second part…

• Domestic Public Policy

  by Jim Harrigan

  Course Objectives: This course is an introduction to the doctrines of public administration vital to the domestic public policy process within the context of the American political tradition. Through theoretical readings and case studies, students will be in a position to…

Course level: 100

• Civil Liberties

  by Chris Wolfe

  COURSE OBJECTIVES: This is a constitutional law course that focuses especially on civil liberties. The areas that we will be studying this semester include the incorporation of the Bill of Rights into Fourteenth Amendment due process, freedom of speech, freedom…

Course level: Unknown

• Constitutional Law

  by Chris Wolfe

  COURSE OBJECTIVES We will study the development of constitutional law in the areas of judicial power, legislative power, executive power, separation of powers, federalism, national and state regulation of commerce, and the rise and decline and reinvigoration of property rights. …

• Constitutional Law: Civil Liberties

  by Carson Holloway

  Course Objectives: This course aims to provide the student with the opportunity to begin to cultivate a liberal education, that is, an education that will enable the student to think independently and seriously about questions of enduring…

• Constitutional Law: Federal System

  by Carson Holloway

  Course Objectives: This course aims to provide the student with the opportunity to begin to cultivate a liberal education, that is, an education that will enable the student to think independently and seriously about questions of enduring…

• Constitutional Rights and Liberties

  by Joseph Fornieri

  Constitutional Rights & Liberties: :*"They that can give up essential liberty in order to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." Benjamin Franklin :*"The choice is not between order and liberty. It is between liberty without order…

• Introduction to American Government

  by Joseph S. Devaney

  Course Objective This course is intended as an intensive introduction to the basic institutions and principles of American government, with particular attention to historical and constitutional foundations, political theory of the American Founding, federalism, separation of powers, civil rights and civil…

• Judicial Politics

  by Frank Colucci

  This course examines the effect of the U.S. Supreme Court on American politics, government and society. We begin by reviewing the political, legal and institutional influences on the decision-making process of the Supreme Court. In the second part of the…

• Law and Society

  by Joseph S. Devaney

  This course is intended as an intensive introduction to the basic institutions and principles of the American legal system including civil procedure, criminal procedure, rules of evidence, constitutional law, torts, contracts, and property. Particular attention will be given to the…

• Topics in Political Science: Freedom of Speech

  by Chris Wolfe

  COURSE OBJECTIVES: Using certain constitutional law cases as a starting point, we will examine and discuss competing philosophical grounds for free speech. In the first section of the course, we will look at the original intention…

Course level: 200

• Institutions

  by Jim Harrigan

  Course Objectives: In this course we will examine the institutions of American government in the order that they are presented in the United States Constitution. The Constitution itself will thus be our guide. We will read the relevant numbers…

• Introduction to American Government

  by Glenn Moots

  Course Description Development of the American political system with emphasis on decision-making in the legislative, executive, and judicial departments; Constitutional interpretation and Federalism; and the inputs of political parties, interest groups, and the federal bureaucracy.     Course Goals and Objectives By the end of…

• Law and Politics

  by Jim Harrigan

  Course Objectives: This course introduces students to the study of law and law’s relation to politics in both theoretical and practical terms. We will begin with a discussion on the nature of both law and politics, and proceed to investigate…

• US Government (General Education)

  by Kathleen Ferraiolo

  Course Description and Learning Objectives GPOSC 225 is a General Education course that satisfies the Cluster Four American Experience requirement. It introduces students to the main features of the American political system, including its constitutional foundations, primary institutions and actors, and…

Course level: 500

• Law and Policy

  by Jim Harrigan

  Course Objectives: This course will analyze the relationship between law and the policy making process in the United States. We begin with two fictional treatments of the problem, one ancient, one modern, then move on to…