| Program Name: |
Law and Society Program |
| Director: |
Ric S. Sheffield |
| Program Address: |
Law and Society Program
Kenyon College
Ward Street 102
Gambier, OH 43022
614/427-5852
E-mail: sheffier@kenyon.edu |
| Program Type: |
Concentration (Minor) |
| Program Status: |
Approved by faculty as an interdisciplinary concentration in
1993. |
| Statement of Intellectual Structure: |
| “Kenyon College's Law and Society Program is an acknowledgment of
the increasing importance within the best liberal arts institutions of the advance of
programs which emphasize the study of law, legal institutions and the legal profession.
This program is designed to provide students with a comprehensive, coherent curricular
structure within which to examine the plethora of law-related issues which emerge across
disciplines and for which these various disciplines seek, if not to find the correct
answers about law, to ask the appropriate questions. Students pursuing this area of
study will ponder the relationship between law and human behavior and the role of law in
society. They will focus their work in three primary areas: philosophies of law, law as a
social institution, and law and government.” |
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| Program Curricular Organization: |
Five courses, including a required introductory course and a
senior seminar involving a directed research project. |
| Required Courses: |
Introduction to Legal Studies
Senior Seminar
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| Sample of Elective Courses: |
Media and the Law
Women, Law and the Constitution
Economic Analysis of Politics and Law
Supreme Court and American Politics
Pornography, Sexuality and Censorship
Race, Ethnicity and American Law
Women, Crime and the Law
Deviance
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| Experiential Component: |
None |
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