HIST1807
HIST 1807 - The Constitution: A People's History from the Founding to Now (3 Cr.) Historical Perspectives
History Department (10968)
TCLA - College of Liberal Arts
HIST 1807 - The Constitution: A People's History from the Founding to Now (3 Cr.) Historical Perspectives
Course description
This course examines struggles over the U.S. Constitution from the founding to the present. It foregrounds the experience of diverse communities and their efforts to change, preserve, or realize constitutional meaning. Through a history of rights and citizenship, powers of government, and social movements' pursuits of justice, it conveys the centrality of constitutional history to American life.
Minimum credits
3
Maximum credits
3
Is this course repeatable?
No
Grading basis
OPT - Student Option
Lecture
This course fulfills the following Liberal Education requirement(s)
Historical Perspectives
Fulfills the writing intensive requirement?
No
Typically offered term(s)
Every Fall & Spring