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  • 1.00 - 8.00 Credits

    Corequisite(s): CAW 2850R the first time only. For CAW majors. Provides paid, on-the-job work experience in the student's major. Work experience, the related class, and enrollment are coordinated by the Cooperative Coordinator. Includes student, employer, and coordinator evaluations, on-site work visits, written assignments, and oral presentations. Provides experience in writing and completing individualized work objectives that improve present work performance. May be repeated twice for credit. May be graded credit/no credit. Corequisite:    CAW 2850R
  • 1.00 Credits

    Corequisite(s): CAW 2810R the first time only. For CAW majors. Identifies on-the-job problems and provides remediation of those problems through in-class discussion and study. Includes the study of identifying and maximizing service opportunities. Students register for this class with approval of the Cooperative Coordinator. Includes lectures, guest speakers, video tapes, role playing, case analysis, oral presentations, and written assignments. Completers should be better able to perform in their field of work or study. May be repeated twice for credit. Corequisite:    CAW 2810R
  • 1.00 Credits

    Supports and facilitates the goals and objectives of Skills USA pre-professional student organization that develops social awareness, civic, recreational, and social activities. Students may participate in local, state, and national contests. May be repeated for a maximum of 2 credits toward graduation.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Prerequisite(s): Admission to M.A. in Constitutional Government, Civics, and Law program.. Surveys the philosophical and historical foundations of constitutionalism in America. Covers ancient, medieval, and modern political theorists' ideas about regimes and constitutions. Focuses on the English constitution, the American state constitutions, and the Articles of Confederation that the framers of the United States Constitution drew upon in creating the 1787 national constitution. Includes discussion of the Federalist and Anti-Federalist Papers. Analyzes how these foundations continue to shape American constitutional law today.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Prerequisite(s): Admission to M.A. in Constitutional Government, Civics, and Law program.. Engages students in an effort to understand the institutional logic that animates the American Constitution. Examines the structure of government established by the Constitution, focusing primarily on the two fundamental institutional features that characterize that structure: separation of powers and federalism.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Prerequisite(s): Admission to M.A. in Constitutional Government, Civics, and Law program.. Focuses on the content and enforcement of constitutionally protected civil rights and civil liberties in the United States. Begins with the foundational ideas that formed the content of the American tradition of civil liberties in the early republic and gave rise to reliance on judicial review as a guarantor of constitutional rights. Examines the constitutional disputes over equal protection, property rights, criminal due process, freedoms of speech, press, and association, religious liberty and other judicially created rights concerning privacy, marriage, and parental rights. Explores primary sources, both in the form of judicial opinions and non-judicial documents.
  • 2.00 Credits

    Prerequisite(s): Admission to M.A. in Constitutional Government, Civics, and Law program.. Explores core ancient and modern texts in political philosophy and theology that are foundational to the political thought of the American Founding. Helps students understand the American form of government in comparison with other regimes. Surveys American ideas within the history of political philosophy.
  • 2.00 Credits

    Prerequisite(s): Admission to M.A. in Constitutional Government, Civics, and Law program.. Engages students in an effort to understand the ideas and logic that animate constitutional interpretation in the American political system. Explores the major theories of jurisprudence in American law and their criticisms.
  • 2.00 Credits

    Prerequisite(s): Admission to M.A. in Constitutional Government, Civics, and Law program.. Examines the application of constitutional law to education, with special attention to the United States. Includes the scope and exercise of constitutional rights enjoyed by students, parents, teachers, and educational institutions as well as the constraints imposed by federalism, due process, disestablishment of religion, and other structural constitutional principles on education policy.
  • 2.00 Credits

    Prerequisite(s): Admission to M.A. in Constitutional Government, Civics, and Law program.. Surveys the philosophical and historical foundations of American democracy and equal citizenship. Covers key texts about democracy from ancient and modern republican writers, including theorists of democracy in America, like Publius, John Adams, and Thomas Jefferson, and observers of democracy in America like Alexis de Tocqueville. Focuses on the United States Constitution.