Overview
Description
Discussion and analysis of ethical behavior and justice at the point in which law, literature and life experience intersect.
Units
Lecture2
Catalog Details
Offering
Offered: Every Fall and Spring
Terms
fall, spring
Attributes
S U Only
Learning Outcomes
- describe the ways in which literature exemplifies ethical issues facing the judiciary.
- identify an author’s views of justice and the judge’s responsibilities to administer justice in poetry, short stories and the selected works of William Shakespeare.
- explain and apply judicial ethics in a manner that enhances public confidence in the judiciary.
- identify the formal fallacies associated with “deductive reasoning.
- recognize the kinds of sentences you tend to use and edit your own writing.
- describe what we do when we read and state why the psychology of reading is important to writers.
- demonstrate refined understanding of the constituent parts of a judicial opinion.
- identify and avoid ambiguous and unclear grammatical constructions.