UW classes that address the Constitution
- College of Arts & Sciences
- College of Education
- University of Washington - Tacoma
- School of Business Administration
- College of Architecture and Urban Planning
- Graduate School of Public Affairs
- School of Law
College of Arts and Sciences
History of the Americas (HISTAA)
-
HSTAA 101 Survey of the History of the United States (5) I&S
Supplies the knowledge of American history that any intelligent and educated American citizen should have. Objective is to make the student aware of his or her heritage of the past and more intelligently conscious of the present. Instructor Course Descriptions: Brian Casserly | Brian Barnes | Quintard Taylor | Robert T Mckenzie | William J Rorabaugh | Richard R Johnson | Wilton B Fowler -
HSTAA 301 Foundations of American Civilization (5) I&S
Early America from the sixteenth century to the end of the American Revolution: the founding years, social and religious development, race relations, development of the Atlantic world, origins and legacy of American independence. Instructor Course Description: Richard R Johnson -
HSTAA 302 American Civilization: The First Century of Independence (5) I&S
Establishment of the constitutional system; national expansion; intellectual and cultural development; internal conflicts, the Civil War, and Reconstruction. Instructor Course Description: Robert T Mckenzie -
HSTAA 401 American Revolution and Confederation (5) I&S
Causes of separation of the United States from the British empire; political theory of the Revolution; its military history; diplomacy of the Revolution; the Revolution as a social movement; intellectual aspects; readjustment after independence; the formation of the American union; the Constitution. Instructor Course Description: Richard R Johnson -
HSTAA 404 New England: From the Foundings to the Civil War (5) I&S
New England from colonial beginnings to the region's emergence to national leadership in the mid-nineteenth century. Emphasis on Puritanism, the New England town, adjustment to empire, revolution and constitution making, the growth of party, abolitionism, the flowering of a regional culture, and the personalities who embodied these key themes and periods. Instructor Course Description: Richard R Johnson
Politial Science (HISTAA)
-
POL S 202 Introduction to American Politics (5) I&S
Philosophical bases of politics and political activity. Instructor Course Description: Bethany Albertson | Christopher Roberts | John Wilkerson | Lloyd Jansen | Mark Smith | Matthew Barreto | Melissa Merry | Naomi Murakawa -
POL S 317 The Politics of Race in the United States (5) I&S
Introduction to the history and development of racial hierarchy in the U.S., focusing on how race shapes political institutions (including the constitution, the electoral college, Congress, political parties) and how political institutions structure racial power. Case studies of welfare state development, crime policy, immigration policy, and terrorism politics. Offered: jointly with LSJ 331. Instructor Course Description: Matthew Barreto | Naomi Murakawa -
POL S 355 The American Presidency (5) I&S
The American presidency; its evolution, its occupants, and its place within the American system. Topics include presidential character, war, elections, Watergate, the economy, and the Constitution. Instructor Course Description: Bryan D. Jones -
POL S 360 Introduction to United States Constitutional Law (5) I&S
Growth and development of the United States Constitution as reflected in decisions of the Supreme Court; political, social, and economic effects. Offered: jointly with LSJ 360. Instructor Course Description: Gad Barzilai | George I Lovell | Scott W. Barclay | Theresa Squatrito -
POL S 361 United States Courts and Civil Liberty (5) I&S
Cases and literature bearing on protection of constitutionally guaranteed private rights, with particular reference to the period since 1937. Offered: jointly with LSJ 361. Instructor Course Description: George I Lovell -
POL S 462 The Supreme Court in American Politics (5) I&S
Introductory public law course that examines the interplay of constitutional law and American politics with particular attention to the role of the Supreme Court in the formulation and implementation of public policy in such matters as criminal-law enforcement, civil rights political expression, and economic regulation. Instructor Course Description: George I Lovell -
POL S 563 Supreme Court in American Politics (5) I&S
Explores the tendency in the United States to turn to the Supreme Court to provide constitutional solutions for some of our biggest social, economic, and political problems. Focuses on the controversies concerning the legitimacy and capacity of the Supreme Court to intervene in American politics and public policy. Instructor Course Description: George I Lovell
Political Science - Law, Societies, and Justice
-
LSJ 331 The Politics of Race in the United States (5) I&S
Introduction to the history and development of racial hierarchy in the U.S., focusing on how race shapes political institutions (including the constitution, the electoral college, Congress, political parties) and how political institutions structure racial power. Case studies of welfare state development, crime policy, immigration policy, and terrorism politics. Offered: jointly with POL S 317. Instructor Course Description: Emily Ernst -
LSJ 360 Introduction to United States Constitutional Law (5) I&S
Growth and development of the United States Constitution as reflected in decisions of the Supreme Court; political, social, and economic effects. Offered: jointly with POL S 360. Instructor Course Description: George I Lovell -
LSJ 361 United States Courts and Civil Liberty (5) I&S
Cases and literature bearing on protection of constitujtionally guaranteed private rights, with particular reference to the period since 1937. Offered: jointly with POL S 361. Instructor Course Description: George I Lovell
Communication
-
COM 440 Mass Media Law (5) I&S
Survey of laws and regulations that affect the print and broadcast media. Includes material on First Amendment, libel, invasion of privacy, freedom of information, copyright, obscenity, advertising and broadcast regulation, and matters relating to press coverage of the judicial system. Offered: jointly with POL S 461. Instructor Course Description: Richard B Kielbowicz
General Studies - General Interdisciplinary Studies
-
GIS 171 An Introduction to the United States Constitution (5) I&S
Readings on the history and debates leading up to the Constitution's adoption. Discussion of the key provisions of the Constitution and Supreme Court case law interpreting the Constitution.
College of Education
Educational Leadership and Policy Studies
-
EDLPS 444 Constitution and American Public Education (3-6, max. 6) I&S
Emphasis on the principles, processes, and content of constitutional law in an effort to provide new insights and new tools with which school administrators and teachers may examine questions involving political and civil rights in the United States, especially as these affect the conduct of education. Specific topics on constitutional freedom include the obligation to go to school; legal controls over curriculum, teachers, and students; and racial integration and equal financing of public schools. Open to law students and to nonlaw students enrolled as graduate students or as upper-division undergraduates. Credit/no credit only. Offered: jointly with LAW 444. -
EDLPS 583 Higher Education and the Law (3)
Legal implications of university operations and an explanation of the legal and constitutional rights of students, faculty, and staff within the university. Special attention given to faculty employment and termination decisions; student protections, including due process; and university liabilities.
University of Washington - Tacoma
Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences- States and Markets: United States
-
TSMUS 410 Early American Politics, Constitution, and Law (5, max. 10) I&S
Explores American political history from a variety of perspectives. Topics vary, including the American Revolution, Constitution and Bill of Rights, political party systems, Jacksonian democracy, nationalism and sectionalism, the Civil War and American laws and lawyers. -
TSMUS 413 Civil Rights, Civil Liberties (5, max. 10) I&S
Explores the historic personal and community rights, or lack thereof, embodied in the Constitution and Bill of Rights. Focuses on the history of efforts to preserve, extend or undermine these rights and on the status of these rights today.
School of Business Administration
Management
-
MGMT 321 Legal and Regulatory Environment of Business (4)
Managerial implications of restrictions imposed by government on corporations from legal point of view. Constitutional law impacting business managers; antitrust, administrative, and regulatory issues; environmental law, product liability law, and securities law. Not a business or commercial law course. Instructor Course Description: Joseph L. Brotherton
College of Architecture and Urban Planning
Strategic Planning for Critical Infrastructures
-
SPCI 502 Constitutional Issues in Homeland Security (3)
Explores the balance between individual liberties and national security. Examines the moral concepts underlying American civil rights and acts of terrorism against the United States. Discusses application of the U.S. Constitution to Homeland Security laws and other governmental actions to protect the nation at home and abroad. Credit/no credit only.
Graduate School of Public Affairs
Public Affairs
-
PB AF 505 The Law of Public Administration (3)
Legal framework of public administrative action in the United States, emphasizing constitutional requirements; operation of the administrative process; management of personnel, funds, and contracts; and judicial review of administrative activity. -
PB AF 510 Foundations of American Democracy (1)
Discusses the role of public service in the United States through examination of historical and institutional foundations of the U.S. political regime. Pays special attention to the structures of government and constitutional values and conflicts at the heart of the political system. -
PB AF 520 Intergovernmental Relations (3)
Comparative study of the issues involved in implementing government programs across multiple jurisdictions. Issues of accountability, feasibility, politics, and constitutional limits are examined by focusing upon various methods used to implement programs across federal, state, regional, and international jurisdictions.
School of Law
Health Law
-
LAW H 520 Genetics and the Law (2) Kuszler
Considers the legal issues arising from new genetic technologies and information. Statutes, regulations, and cases used to demonstrate the constitutional, contract, and tort law complications resulting from dissemination of these technological advances. Prerequisite: LAW E 562/MHE 514/PHG 512 or permission of instructor. Offered: jointly with PHG 523. -
LAW H 525 Criminal Law and Procedure (3)
Provides an understanding of U.S. criminal law and criminal procedure. Explores basic principles of liability, defenses, and basic constitutional principles governing interactions between police and suspects. Open to forensic nursing students and graduate law students, but not JD students.
Law
-
LAW 415 Criminal Justice (3) I&S
Examines pre-trial rights of persons suspected or accused of crime, primarily those rights covered by the Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendments of the U.S. Constitution. -
LAW 444 Constitution and American Public Education (3-6, max. 6) I&S
Examines the relationships between the Constitution of the United States and the American system of public education, excluding higher education, in areas of constitutional freedom and legal controls, racial desegregation, and equal educational opportunity, including equal financing of the public schools. Credit/no credit only. Offered: jointly with EDLPS 444. -
LAW 445 Major Issues in American Constitutional Law (3) I&S
Significant themes in American constitutional law. Doctrine of judicial review, application of the Bill of Rights to the states, Supreme Court's recognition of fundamental rights, the Equal Protection clause, the Religion clauses, freedom of speech, and Presidential powers. Open to law and nonlaw students. -
LAW 467 American Law and the American Indian (3) I&S
Relationship between Indians and the United States from 1789 to the present. Significant constitutional, legislative, and judicial actions. Legal events explored within their political, military, social, and cultural contexts. Comparisons with other minority-group experiences. Offered: jointly with HSTAA 416.
Law A
- LAW A 507 Constitutional Law I: Constitutional Structures of Government (4)
- LAW A 550 Constitutional Law ([2-8]-, max. 8)
- LAW A 551 Constitution and American Public Education (3-6)
- LAW A 557 Foreign Affairs and the Constitution (3)
-
LAW A 584 American Public School Law (3)
Constitutional, statutory, and common law principles common to all public education systems within the United States. Applicable law are a variety of substantive legal areas such as torts, property, contracts, administrative law, and fundamental rights. Offered: Sp. Instructor Course Description: - Sharan E Brown
- LAW A 590 Constitutional Law: Equal Protection, Fundamental Rights, and Due Process of Law (4)
- LAW A 591 Constitutional Law: Freedom of Expression (4)
- LAW A 592 Constitutional Law II: The Fourteenth and First Amendments -- Equal Protection, Fundamental Rights, Due Process of Law, ([2-8]-, max. 8)
Law B
- LAW B 515 Criminal Procedure (5)
- LAW B 590 The United States Constitution: Past, Present, and Future (2)
- LAW B 597 History of the Formation of the United States Constitution Seminar ([2-6]-, max. 6)
Law E
-
LAW E 522 Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity, and the Law Seminar (1-4, max. 4)
Examines questions regarding sexual orientation and gender identify as they relate to the areas of criminal, constitutional, employment, tort, and family law. Topics include equal protection, freedom of association, public and private employment discrimination, same-sex marriage and non-martial alternative to marriage, parenting, hate crimes legislation, sodomy laws, and the legal profession. -
LAW E 532 Sports Law (3/4)
Analyzes sports cases and materials that cover multiple disciplines, including contracts, torts, constitutional, antitrust, labor and employment, intellectual property, and criminal law. Participation in problem solving exercises and drafting and negotiations sessions, which explore areas like player and coaching contracts, investigation of NCAA rules infractions, and possible sanctions against universities. -
LAW E 541 Electronic Commerce and Information Technology (3)
Introduction to legal and policy issues raised by electronic commerce and other emerging information technologies. Topics vary and may include intellectual property and contract issues raised by establishing an online commercial presence, rights and obligations of users of network services including constitutional rights, information privacy, electronic contracts, electronic payments, etc. -
LAW E 543 Crime, Privacy, and Accountability on the Internet (2)
An exploration of criminal activity on the Internet and issues that arise in investigating it. Examines the tension between privacy rights and the need for accountability. Includes substantive criminal statutes, constitutional rights and procedural laws that implement privacy and protections, and the practicalities of Internet crime investigations. -
LAW E 575 Telecommunications Law and Policy (2)
Survey basic policy principles underlying our nation's telecommunications laws. Focus on administrative and statutory law, paying special attention to the design and implementation of the Telecommunications Act of 1996. Addresses the role played by antitrust, economic regulation and constitutional law (particularly the First Amendment) in shaping our nation's telecommunications landscape.