CHP freshmen have been offered a very special opportunity to take a freshman seminar in Winter Quarter 2011 from Chancellor Michael Drake and internationally acclaimed legal scholar and Dean of the UCI Law School, Erwin Chemerinsky called The Supreme Court and the Civil Rights Movement.
This one-unit P/NP course will take place on Tuesdays from 2:00-2:50 p.m. in 501 Aldrich Hall.
If you would like to register for this course, please email Jeff at jfulkers@uci.edu to request a course code. This course is currently available only to CHP students, and will be limited to 15 students. We will distribute course codes on a first-come, first-served basis.
Course Description:
The Supreme Court and the Civil Rights Movement
Between 1954 and 1974, laws that required segregation of the races were eliminated and the first major federal civil rights legislation since the Civil War was adopted. This course will examine what happened and why. It will begin with a look back and end with a look forward, but most of the class will be spent examining the range of dramatic events from simple acts of protest to widespread civic unrest and major Supreme Court decisions, that led to triumphs and tragedies over two decades.