Rights

Spring 2022

Rights

Listed in: Education Studies, as EDST-374  |  Law, Jurisprudence, and Social Thought, as LJST-374  |  Political Science, as POSC-374

Formerly listed as: LJST-39  |  POSC-74

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Faculty

Kristin Bumiller (Section 01)

Description

(Offered as POSC 374, LJST 374, and EDST 374) This seminar explores the role of rights in addressing inequality, discrimination, and violence. This course will trace the evolution of rights focused legal strategies aimed at addressing injustice coupled with race, gender, disability, and citizenship status. We will evaluate how rights-based activism often creates a gap between expectation and realization. This evaluation will consider when and how rights are most efficacious in producing social change and the possibility of unintended consequences.

This course fulfills a requirement for the Five College Reproductive Health, Rights and Justice (RHRJ) certificate.

Requisite: One introductory POSC course or its equivalent. Limited to 15 students. Spring semester. Professor Bumiller.

Expectations

Students who enroll in this course will likely encounter and be expected to engage in the following intellectual skills, modes of learning, and assessment: Independent research project, group work, readings, written work, oral presentations. Students with documented disabilities who will require accommodations in this course should be in consultation with Accessibility Services and reach out to the faculty member as soon as possible to ensure that accommodations can be made in a timely manner.

If Overenrolled: Priority given to political science majors

Keywords

Attention to Issues of Class, Attention to Issues of Gender and Sexuality, Attention to Issues of Race, Attention to Research, Attention to Writing

Course times and locations

POSC 374 - L/D

Section 01
Tu 01:30 PM - 04:00 PM CHAP 203

Textbooks

Below are the textbooks used in this course, along with pricing information and availability at local bookstores. The price range shown is based upon queries to multiple online booksellers; click on the the price field to see detailed pricing information.

This is preliminary information about books for this course. Please contact your instructor or the Academic Coordinator for the department, before attempting to purchase these books.

ISBN	Title	Publisher	Author(s)	Comment	Book Store	Price
9780195182477	Silent Covenants: Brown v. Board of Education and the Unfulfilled Hopes for Racial Reform	Oxford University Press	Bell, Derrick		Amherst Books	From $7.60-$29.49
9780226211657	Making Rights Real: Activists, Bureaucrats, and the Creation of the Legalistic State (Chicago Series in Law and Society)	University of Chicago Press	Epp, Charles R.		Amherst Books	From $16.01-$49.32
9780520284180	Appealing to Justice : Prisoner Grievances, Rights, and Carceral Logic	University of California Press	Calavita - Kitty; Jenness - Valerie		Amherst Books	From $24.49-$50.59
9780553447453	Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City	Crown	Desmond, Matthew		Amherst Books	From $5.74-$25.50
9780691173900	The Lives of Animals (The University Center for Human Values Series (43))	Princeton University Press	Coetzee, J. M.		Amherst Books	From $6.00-$20.43
9781479815517	Up Against a Wall: Rape Reform and the Failure of Success	NYU Press	Corrigan, Rose		Amherst Books	From $12.03-$43.62
9781517904432	Decarcerating Disability: Deinstitutionalization and Prison Abolition	Univ Of Minnesota Press	Ben-Moshe, Liat		Amherst Books	From $13.37-$120.00
9781839762123	Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During This Crisis (and the Next)	Verso	Spade, Dean		Amherst Books	From $9.49-$21.94

These books are available locally at Amherst Books.

If Overenrolled

Priority given to political science majors

Offerings

2022-23: Offered in Spring 2023
Other years: Offered in Fall 2007, Fall 2009, Fall 2010, Fall 2011, Fall 2012, Fall 2013, Fall 2014, Spring 2022