AGRS 130C Ancient Greek Political Thought (4) In this course we will investigate the political thought of ancient Greece by discussing some of its most important and influential texts. All texts are to be read in translation. (Area II or V)
UGBA 107 Social & Political Environment of Business (3) Study and analysis of American business in a changing social and political environment. Interaction between business and other institutions. Role of business in the development of social values, goals, and national priorities. The expanding role of the corporation in dealing with social problems and issues. (Area III)
Chicano Studies 174 Chicanos Law & Criminal Justice (4) An examination of the development and function of law, the organization and administration of criminal justice, and their effects in the Chicano community; response to these institutions by Chicanos. (Area I or II)
Econ 127 Antitrust Economics and Law (4) We will study both antitrust law and antitrust economics. Antitrust law governs the accumulation and exercise of market power. It prohibits both monopolization and agreements in unreasonable restraint of trade such as price fixing. It also prohibits anticompetitive mergers and a variety of specific competition problems such as exclusive dealing or tying arrangements. Deciding what qualifies as "monopolization," what qualifies as an "unreasonable restraint of trade," what qualifies as "anticompetitive," and more generally how to interpret the prohibitions of antitrust law invariably involves economic analysis. Such economic analysis commonly goes by the name "antitrust economics". (Area III)
Ethnic Studies 180 Art, Race and Environmental Justice (4) This course is taught in conjunction with selected artworks related to ecological issues at Berkeley Art Museum. The class will meet and work alongside an Art Wall curated with content selected specifically for this course. Our focus will be on artistic practices that have engaged issues of environmental racism, extraction, pollution, settler-colonial labor practices on cotton and sugar plantations along with questions around spiritual and sacred relations to the land. We ask about the role art can play in imagining alternate social and ecological relations. Apart from the artworks on view, our course readings will guide us in our analyses of artistic practices and broader social, economic, gender, racial and environmental issues in transnational communities today. (Area I or V)
Ethnic Studies 190AC Inside and Beyond Walls: Migra, Masses and the Carceral State (4) For a four unit course, an extra assignment/research component will be added to the course to increase contact hours with students. Possible components include additional readings, outside-of-class research projects and any other project which the instructor feels will add to the value of the course. Topics to be announced at the beginning of each semester. (Area I or IV)
GWS 132AC Gender, Race & Law (4) Focusing on the interconnected ways that race, gender, and sexuality are constructed through the law, this course will examine a wide range of historical texts, legal documents, literature, and critical theory. Throughout our course readings, we will be focusing on how these categories of difference inform legal constructions of nation, citizenship, immigration, masculinity, femininity, childhood, the public sphere, and everyday life. Throughout the course, we will be making connections between historical events and the contemporary moment through a consideration of interpretation and implications of legal arguments. (Area I or V)
NATAMST 102 Critical Native American Legal and Policy Studies. (4) Key contemporary issues in the critical study of tribal and federal policy pertaining to American Indians and Alaska Natives in the U.S. Topics include political and cultural sovereignty; religious, gendered, sexual, racial, and other tribal minorities, and civil rights within tribes; Native legal identity and tribal enrollment; the role of violence against women in the history of colonialism, and the struggle for justice and healing; and the movement for traditional or other culturally appropriate forms for tribal self-governance. (Area IV or V)
NATAMST 190.2 Sp26: Indigenous Peoples & Transitional Justice in Theory and Practice (4) This course explores the global movement for justice associated with the historical dispossession of Indigenous peoples. It analyzes practices of transitional justice and post-conflict reconstruction in the struggle for reconciliation and reparation in countries that have not undergone reconstruction in their relations with Indigenous communities. Through the comparative study of legal, political, and literary texts, it emphasizes the voices and experiences of Indigenous peoples in this movement. (Area IV or V)
Philosophy 104 Ethical Theories (4) The fundamental concepts and problems of morality examined through the study of classical and contemporary philosophical theories of ethics. (Area II or V)
Political Sci 117L Jurisprudence (4) Justinian’s Institutes opens by defining jurisprudence as iusti atque iniusti scientia – ‘the knowledge of what is right and wrong.’ This course is designed to introduce undergraduate students to this ‘legal science,’ and will invite students to explore foundational questions about the law: What is (and isn’t) law? Is there a difference between law and morality? What is the source of law? Do rights derive from laws? What is the role of courts in a law-governed society? (Area III or IV)
Political Sci 124C Ethics of Justice in Intl. Affairs (4) Should nations intervene in other countries to prevent human rights abuses or famine? On what principles should immigration be based? Should wealthy states aid poorer states, and if so, how much? Who should pay for global environmental damage? Answers to these moral questions depend to a great degree on who we believe we have an obligation to: Ourselves? Nationals of our country? Residents of our country? Everyone in the world equally? We will examine different traditions of moral thought including skeptics, communitarians, cosmopolitans, and use these traditions as tools to make reasoned judgments about difficult moral problems in world politics. (Area V)
Public Policy 190.2 Intro to Law and Public Policy (4)
This course is designed to provide a foundational comprehension of federal, state, and local legal systems in developing, defining, and limiting public policy. We will discuss the major legal frameworks that implicate public policy to gain an understanding of how policy is developed and implemented within federal, state and local governments. (Area IV)
Rhetoric 167 The Constitution of Polity (4) As the ζῷον πoλιτικόν, human beings are given – essentially – to dwell in polity. And yet, those of us living in the current moment seem to have lost sight of what it is to do so – and of what it entails, by way of thoughtful relation. Instead, we find ourselves, now, in distinctly unsettled, even perilous times, shot through with turmoil, disharmony, and accelerating uncertainty; in particular, our political world, buffeted by rage and factionalism, appears irrevocably fractured. The very possibility of our living peaceably with one another has come into profound question. (Area V)
Sociology 149 The Penal State: Punishment, Inequality, Identity (4)
This course starts by reviewing the main sociological theories about crime, punishment and inequality to give us tools to map out the penal state. Then we work our way down the “penal chain”: police, jail, court (prosecution, public defense, judging via plea bargaining and trial), probation, imprisonment and parole. We end by considering the possibilities and pitfalls of criminal justice reform or abolition. (Area I)
Sociologly 190.5 Kids and the Carceral State (4) This course explores various dimensions of the carceral state with a focus on how they are experienced by children and adolescents across the United States. This class will invite students to consider the intersections between the carceral state and childhood specifically. We will put a Sociology of Childhood perspective to work and disentangle some of the manifestations of the carceral state in the lives of children. We begin with an examination of the incursion of carceral logics into three spaces where children spend their time: their schools, their neighborhoods, and their homes. We will discuss the causes, manifestations, and effects of carceral logics in these spaces, with a focus on children’s experience. Following this, we dive more closely into the experiences of children directly affected by the criminal legal system as juvenile offenders. At every turn, we will critically consider what it means to be a child, how childhood is shaped by the intersections of other identities, and the importance of recognising children as actors in the social world. (Area I or II)