This 3-credit graduate course, taught by master teacher Kelley Brown with constitutional scholar David Hudson, will look at privacy through the exploration of the 1st, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 9th and 14th Amendments as well as statutory and tort law. Fully online, May 3 - June 25, 2021.
America and World Fascism: From the Spanish Civil War to Nuremberg and Beyond - ONLINE - Summer 2021
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What is fascism? Where did it come from? How does it impact human rights? What is anti-fascism and how did it arise? How did ideology shape the Spanish Civil War (the setting for the Ernest Hemingway novel, For Whom the Bell Tolls) and WWII? What legacies did those wars pass on in the decades since–in Spain, the U.S., Europe, and globally?
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Fully Online: Course runs July 9 - August 8, 2021. Social Studies and Humanities pose distinct challenges for struggling learners. Extensive discipline-specific vocabulary, difficult informational texts –including complex primary sources– and a need for background knowledge can be barriers. Yet the authentic sources, important ideas and connections to issues of these subjects also offer virtual tools for differentiation and potent means to motivate students.