DOC 2: Justice
DOC 2 is a six-unit course that is offered every Winter Quarter. Prerequisite: Students must have satisfied the Entry Level Writing Requirement 
before the end of the previous quarter. Please read the paragraphs under "Dimensions of Culture Program" in the UCSD Schedule of Classes [link not yet available] for important enrollment information.
"Justice" explores tensions between the founding American promise of "equality for all" and its imperfect realization in various settings. We provide historical context, but then emphasize the political movements and constitutional challenges that arose in the post-World War II era to confront the injustice of denying the American promise to various groups in society – racial minorities, women, those of diverse sexual orientations, foreigners, and the poor. Central themes in the course are: the conception of justice embedded in the founding principles of the American experiment; the nature and relative inclusiveness of that conception when put into practice; the methods through which groups have demanded justice (and the relative success or failure of these methods); the role of government, the courts, the university, the media, and the people themselves in bringing about political, social and cultural change; and the extent that the American promise of equality is becoming more or less realized in the 21st century. Resources include classical works of political theory, political documents, court cases, speeches, narrative accounts, literature, music and film.
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