TRANSFER SEMINARS are special sections of the 300-level Justice Core courses that all transfer students are required to take. They are taught by experienced faculty who are experts in their fields and will be able to connect you to academic and professional resources. Each seminar is assigned a peer success coach, who provides ongoing support and serves as a connection to the campus.
TRANSFER ADVANTAGE SUCCESS SERIES:
FAST TRACK FOR POST GRADUATE SUCCESS
As a student in a transfer seminar, you will be able to apply for the special Transfer Advantage workshop series. Meetings take place during community hour, and students are guided on creating an integrated academic and career plan.
ENGLISH LITERATURE
LANDMARK US SUPREME COURT CASES
LATINX STUDIES
PHILOSOPHY
CRIME AND PUNISHMENT IN NEW YORK CITY: WHAT'S LIT GOT TO DO WITH IT?
LIT 326-04, T/TH 10:50AM - 12:05PM
Instruction Mode: In Person
Registration Code 43190
Professor Elizabeth Yukins
LIT 326-05, T/TH 3:05 PM−4:20 PM
Instruction Mode: In Person
Registration Code 43189
Professor Elizabeth Yukins
Why has so much literature been produced about the people and neighborhoods of NYC? In this course, we will examine what our city offers in terms of diverse cultures, complex histories, pervasive social myths, and under-examined economic realities. With a focus on crime and punishment, we will specifically examine how authors use New York City as a setting to explore tensions between individual aspirations, family traditions, and community rules. Amidst these powerful forces, how and why does crime occur? In addition, who gets to define what’s a crime and what is not? In the literature we will read, authors use stories to raise questions about who in American society has been able to access education, to shape community standards, to pass laws, and to judge purported criminals. Over the course of the semester, we will analyze how histories of crime and punishment link with social anxieties about class, race, gender, and sexual identities, and we will debate philosophical questions about our city’s system of laws, rewards, and punishments. Possible texts we will read include Bartleby the Scrivener, Through the Eyes of Rebel Women: The Young Lords, and The Watchmen.
LANDMARK US SUPREME COURT CASES
“YELLOW PERIL” AND YELLOW EXCLUSION: KOREMATSU V. UNITED STATES
HUM 300-01, M 8:00 AM – 9:15 AM
Instruction Mode: Hybrid
Registration Code 45111
Professor Toy Fung Tung
Starting with the landmark Supreme Court case, Korematsu v. United States (1944), this course will explore the long history of legalized racism against those of Asian ancestry, starting in the 19th Century and culminating in Executive Order 9066 (1942), allowing U.S. citizens of Japanese ancestry to be put in internment camps, which was upheld by Korematsu. We will explore the history, significance, and aftermath of the Korematsu decision from legal, social, and cultural perspectives. We will study the Korematsu case itself and learn about how the Supreme Court functions to “make law.” We will examine the human cost of the Korematsu decision by investigating archives relating to the camps, including diaries, pictures, maps, interviews and stories. We will look at films and other sources documenting racist attitudes of the time, such as movies about Dr. Fu Manchu and Charlie Chan.
LATINX STRUGGLES FOR CIVIL RIGHTS AND SOCIAL JUSTICE
LLS 322-01, M/W 10:50AM - 12:05PM
Instruction Mode: In Person
Registration Code 43456
Professor Brian Montes
This course provides an interdisciplinary overview of the experiences of Mexican Americans, Puerto Ricans, and other Latinx during the Civil Rights period. It focuses on the Latinx social movements during the 1960’s and their consequences today for the struggles for civil rights and social justice of Latinx and other racial minorities in the United States. Topics include access to education and employment; immigrant right; detention and deportation; race and crime; Latinx and African American alliance building; Latinx citizenship and the military and gender values and sexuality.
THE LATINX EXPERIENCE OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE
LLS 325-02, T/TH 12:15 PM−1:30 PM
Instruction Mode: In Person
Registration Code 43454
Professor Nitza Esacalera
This course analyzes the criminal justice system and its impact on the lives and communities of Latino/as and other groups in the United States. Particular emphasis is placed on Latino/as human and civil rights and the role that race, ethnicity, gender and class play in the criminal justice system. Interdisciplinary readings and class discussions center on issues such as the overrepresentation of Latino/as and racial minorities in the criminal justice system; law and police-community relations; racial profiling; stop and frisk policies; immigration status; detentions and deportations; Latino/a youth; media representations; gangs; and access to education and employment and the school-to-prison pipeline.
IMMIGRANT RIGHTS IN THE AMERICAS
LLS 341-01, TH 3:05 PM – 4:20 PM
Instruction Mode: Hybrid
Registration Code 43055
Professor Amada Santiago
This course explores the reception of foreigners in different nations, including immigrants in the Americas, as globalization has increased the fear of foreigners, leading to debates on immigrant rights in all parts of the world, and raising the question of who gets to belong to a given society. Students will assess the factors that lead Latin Americans to leave their homelands and examine the ways that immigrants' national origins, race, class, and gender shape and differentiate their experiences in US society. This course focuses on the changing relationship between legal status and access to rights in the United States and aims to provide students with the conceptual and empirical arguments necessary to assess and debate the issue of immigrant rights in the Americas today.
PHILOSOPHICAL ISSUES OF RIGHTS
PHI 302-01, M/W 12:15 PM−1:30 PM
Instruction Mode: In Person
Registration Code 43125
Professor Jonathan Berk
This course will explore a number of philosophical issues regarding the nature, justification, content and scope of rights. Fundamental issues include what is meant by the notion of a right, how rights are justified, and what rights we should have. Other issues will also be explored, including whether rights are universal or culturally determined, whether there needs to be a special category of women’s human rights, whether the scope of rights encompasses animals and ecosystems in addition to humans, and whether rights exist for groups as well as individuals.
PHILOSOPHY OF LAW IN GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE
PHI 317-01, M 12:15 PM−1:30 PM
Instruction Mode: Hybrid
Registration Code 42448
Professor Justine Borer
This course introduces students to classical western philosophy of law by means of two major critical reactions to traditional and especially Anglo-American legal theory: Jeremy Bentham's castigation of English common (or case) law as a form of primitive law in the 19th century and Brian Tamanaha's criticism of H.L.A. Hart's legal positivism from the vantage of the collision of transplanted US law with traditional law in Micronesia (Yap) in the 21st century. Students will read primary texts in the philosophical traditions that form the main objects of discussion for Bentham, Hart, and Tamanaha: classical common law theory, natural law, Legal Formalism and Legal Realism of the US, and the work of Hart's critics Lon Fuller and Ronald Dworkin. At the conclusion of the course, students will be familiar with western philosophies of law and major critical responses to them from a global perspective. They will understand the role and importance of judge-made law for Anglo-American philosophies of law and for global critiques of western philosophy of law, and be able to construct arguments based on primary texts in the philosophy of law.