Law, State, Society
Students in this seminar can research and write their papers on topics related to the following: legal institutions, law and policy, government regulation, concepts of justice, deviance, incarceration, prison systems, international law, human rights, civil rights, courts, citizenship
Sample Paper Topics:
"Asylum Law: Gender Biases and Growth under the Women's Rights Movement"
"Condemned Spells: A Study of the Legality of Erotic Magic in the Roman World"
"How was Communism Portrayed to American Society During the Early Cold War Years?"
"Celebrating or Censoring the Past?: The Role of Heritage and History in the Reconciliation Process in Post-Apartheid South Africa, 1990-Present"
"'Equality of Rights' vs. 'The Right to be a Woman' – Gender, Society, and the Equal Rights Amendment"
- HIST 3436. Historical Background to Contemporary African Conflicts: Case Studies.
- HIST 3349. U.S. Women's Legal History
- HIST 3616. France in the Middle Ages
- HIST 3626. France From the Late 16th Century Through Napoleon: 1594-1815.
- HIST 3728. Race, Nation, and Genocides in the Modern World
- HIST 3809. The Peoples of Revolutionary America
- 3812. The Civil War and Reconstruction
- HIST 3821. United States in the 20th Century to 1945
- HIST 3834. Law in American Life, Colonial Era to Civil War.
- HIST 3835. Law in American Life: 1865 to Present
- HIST 3822. United States in the 20th Century Since 1945
- HIST 3837. Minnesota History.
- HIST 3841. American Business History
- HIST 3864. African American History, 1619-1865.
- HIST 3865. African American History, 1865 to Present.
- HIST 3872. American Indian History: 1830 to the Present
- HIST 3877. Asian American History, 1850-Present
