Arts, Sciences, and Engineering Political Science
Course Section Listing Course Course Title Term Credits Status
PSCI291_20211_40210 PSCI 291-1 First Amendment & Religion Fall 2020 4.0 - 0.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
T 200 PM 440 PM Online Room 17 (ASE)
Enrollment: Enrolled     
18 		Capacity     
30
Co-Located: PSCI 291-1 (P), PSCI 291W-1
Instructors: Thomas Jackson
Description: The Constitution helps define, as it perhaps reflects, American society. In this scheme, religion has a special role. It, arguably uniquely, is given both constitutional protection (free exercise) as well as a constitutional limitation (no establishment). Religion's placement in the Bill of Rights (as a part of the First Amendment) suggests its importance (both in protection and in limitation) to the founders, and religion's role in society today remains important and controversial. This course examines the historical forces that led to the adoption of the religion clauses of the First Amendment, the subsequent development of those clauses (importantly through the close reading of key Supreme Court opinions), and the nature of contemporary controversies, both judicial and academic, over the scope and meaning of the religion clauses of the First Amendment.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
Course Section Listing Course Course Title Term Credits Status
PSCI291W_20211_40228 PSCI 291W-1 First Amendment & Religion Fall 2020 4.0 - 0.0 Closed
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
T 200 PM 440 PM Online Room 17 (ASE)
Enrollment: Enrolled     
12 		Capacity     
10
Co-Located: PSCI 291-1 (P), PSCI 291W-1
Instructors: Thomas Jackson
Description: The Constitution helps define, as it perhaps reflects, American society. In this scheme, religion has a special role. It, arguably uniquely, is given both constitutional protection (free exercise) as well as a constitutional limitation (no establishment). Religion's placement in the Bill of Rights (as a part of the First Amendment) suggests its importance (both in protection and in limitation) to the founders, and religion's role in society today remains important and controversial. This course examines the historical forces that led to the adoption of the religion clauses of the First Amendment, the subsequent development of those clauses (importantly through the close reading of key Supreme Court opinions), and the nature of contemporary controversies, both judicial and academic, over the scope and meaning of the religion clauses of the First Amendment.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer