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USC Catalogue 2018-2019 [ARCHIVED CATALOGUE]

Courses of Instruction

The terms indicated are expected but are not guaranteed. For the courses offered during any given term, consult the Schedule of Classes.
 

Judaic Studies
  

  • JS 258gp Food, Faith and Conflict

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Investigates how food and food traditions create and cross religious and social conflicts between Jews, Christians and Muslims by exploring faith, practice, thought and ethics.
    Satisfies New General Education in Category B: Humanistic Inquiry
    Satisfies Global Perspective in Category H: Traditions and Historical Foundations
    Satisfies Old General Education in Category VI: Social Issues
    Instruction Mode: Lecture, Discussion
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • JS 300 American Jewish History

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Fa
    Patterns of immigration, acculturation, religious forms, and ethnic expression in America from the colonial period to the present.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • JS 314gp Holy War And History: Jews, Christians, Muslims

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Investigates the engagement in war by Judaism, Christianity and Islam by examining history and theology and looks at religious justifications and condemnations of war.
    Satisfies New General Education in Category B: Humanistic Inquiry
    Satisfies Global Perspective in Category H: Traditions and Historical Foundations
    Satisfies Old General Education in Category I: Western Cultures and Traditions
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • JS 315g Anti-Semitism, Racism and Other Hatreds

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    History and contexts of anti-Semitism, racism and other discourses about difference examined through religious, national and cultural forms in Europe and in the U.S.
    Satisfies New General Education in Category B: Humanistic Inquiry
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

    Crosslisted as REL 310, HIST 322
  

  • JS 321 Gender and Judaism

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    An investigation into the ways in which gender has structured Jewish religious, social, political and intellectual life from the Biblical period through the present.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

    Crosslisted as SWMS-321
  

  • JS 330 Jewish Power, Powerlessness, and Politics in the Modern Era

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Explores the relationship between the Jewish people and political powers. Topics include politics in exile, changing relationships to power, and relations with the modern nation-state.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • JS 340 Modern Jewish History

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    A survey of the major trends and themes of modern Jewish history. Examination of Jewish culture, society and politics from the Spanish Expulsion to the Second World War.
    Recommended Preparation: JS 100 .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • JS 342 Reading in Two Directions: Connecting Law and Literature in Jewish Tradition

    Units: 4
    Investigates understandings of law, legal interpretation and the integration of law and narrative in Jewish texts by exploring how to examine legal and literary texts.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • JS 360m Identity, Community, and Service: Jews and Other Americans

    Units: 4
    Examination of relationships between identity, community and service by investigating ethno-religious organizations’ attempts to serve members of their group and confront issues of injustice in society.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • JS 361 Scripture and Polemic in Judaism, Christianity and Islam

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Origins of Scriptures and their polemical environments in earliest Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Scripture as polemic and legitimation, and cross-religious/cross-cultural interpretation and argument based on scriptural themes.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • JS 362 Terror and Resistance in Literature and the Media

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Investigation of the multiple ways that people experience and represent incidents of terror in literature, film, music, and social media.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • JS 370gp Digs and Dispute: Religion and Archaeology in Israel

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Investigates contemporary conflicts in the discovery of the ancient world. Students will ask essential questions about the power of discovering and showcasing specific narratives.
    Satisfies New General Education in Category B: Humanistic Inquiry
    Satisfies Global Perspective in Category H: Traditions and Historical Foundations
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

    Crosslisted as ARCG 370
  

  • JS 374 Messiah: The History of an Idea

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Exploration of the history of the idea of a messiah in Judaism from antiquity to today.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • JS 375 Issues of American Jewish Literature

    Units: 4
    Issues-oriented study of the human experience in America as expressed in the fiction, poetry, drama, memoirs, and literary criticism of America’s Jews, using a dual approach incorporating both literary history and specific issues.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • JS 378 Jewish Magic in the Ancient World

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Sp
    A cross-cultural examination of different kinds of magical literature that describe miraculous practices in Jewish mainstream and marginal life in the ancient and classical periods.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

    Crosslisted as ARCG 378
  

  • JS 379gm Mixing and Matching: Intermarriage in the 21st Century

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Sp
    An investigation into interethnic, interracial, and inter-religious marriage in the 21st century.
    Satisfies New General Education in Category C: Social Analysis
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

    Crosslisted as SOCI-379
  

  • JS 381 The Jew in American Society

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    The changing sociological profile of the American Jew and changing organization of the American Jewish community as they developed over the 19th and 20th centuries.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • JS 382 Judaism as an American Religion

    Units: 4
    The development of American expressions of Judaism as part of the American religious context, from the perspective of the social scientific study of religion.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

    Crosslisted as SOCI-382
  

  • JS 383 Jews in American Popular Culture

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Social and cultural history of American Jewish contributions to the arts, science, literature, economics and politics.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

    Crosslisted as AMST-383
  

  • JS 389 Culture and Society in Israel: Inventing the Dream

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Examination of the social forces that shaped and continue to shape culture and society in contemporary Israel.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • JS 390 Special Problems

    Units: 1, 2, 3, 4
    Supervised, individual studies. No more than one registration permitted. Enrollment by petition only.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • JS 415 The American Jewish Experience in Film

    Units: 4
    A survey of American Jewish history through the medium of film, with particular emphasis on the experience of the post-war generation.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • JS 428 Blacks and Jews: Conflicts and Alliances

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Examination of the relationship between the American Jewish and African-American communities and what it teaches about race and coalition politics in American society.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • JS 467 Modern Jewish Thought

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Foundations of modern Jewish thought from the Western European Enlightenment to the present.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • JS 490x Directed Research

    Units: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
    Max Units: 12.0
    Individual research and readings.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • JS 499 Special Topics

    Units: 4
    Selected topics in Judaic Studies.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • JS 501a Bible Texts

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Advanced grammar and reading. An introduction to principles of form criticism as applied to selected narrative and legal portions of the Pentateuch.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • JS 501b Bible Texts

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    A critical evaluation of the biblical books of Amos and Hosea with a view to gaining an appreciation of the prophets’ literary skill, their religious motivations, and the originality of their thought.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • JS 501c Bible Texts

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Critical readings in each of the biblical books of Ruth, Lamentations, Ecclesiastes, Esther, and Song of Songs, with a view toward gaining an appreciation of their literary and religious values. Knowledge of Hebrew required.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • JS 504 Modern Hebrew Literature

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: Fa
    Reading of unvocalized texts primarily from modern Hebrew literature. A survey of the development of modern Hebrew literature, with an emphasis on short story and poetry. Knowledge of Hebrew required.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • JS 590 Directed Research

    Units: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
    Research leading to the master’s degree. Maximum units which may be applied to the degree to be determined by the department.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Credit/No Credit

  

  • JS 680 Boundaries of Jewish Normative Behavior

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Institutions claiming Jewish authenticity and their treatment of Jews perceived to be deviant.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter


Latin
  

  • LAT 020x Latin for Research

    Units: 2
    For students who wish to use Latin in their research, or who need help in meeting the reading requirement for the PhD Not available for degree credit.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Credit/No Credit

  

  • LAT 120 Latin I

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Essentials of Latin grammar and vocabulary.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • LAT 150 Latin II

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Essentials of Latin grammar and vocabulary, continued. Basic reading skills.
    Prerequisite: LAT 120 .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • LAT 222 Latin III

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Reading Latin literature. Introduction to reading and translation of classical Latin prose and poetry. Extensive grammar review.
    Prerequisite: LAT 150 .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • LAT 310 Latin Elegiac Poetry

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Irregular
    Selected poems of Catullus, Tibullus, Propertius, and Ovid; meter, style, and themes.
    Prerequisite: LAT 313 , LAT 314 , LAT 315 , or LAT 316 .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • LAT 312 Roman Satire

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Irregular
    Selected satires of Horace and Juvenal; history of the genre.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • LAT 313 Ovid and Classical Mythology

    Units: 4
    Selections from the Metamorphoses and Fasti; collateral reading on classical mythology.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • LAT 314 Catullus and Horace

    Units: 4
    Selected poems of Catullus and Odes of Horace.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • LAT 315 Cicero

    Units: 4
    Representative philosophical, oratorical, and rhetorical works; selected letters.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • LAT 316 Roman Comedy

    Units: 4
    Selected plays of Plautus and Terence.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • LAT 317 The Roman Novel: Apuleius’ “Golden Ass”

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    A reading in Latin of substantial parts of Apuleius’ novel, “The Golden Ass,” with study of its cultural context and the development of the ancient novel.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • LAT 320 Vergil

    Units: 4
    Studies in the Aeneid or Eclogues and Georgics.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • LAT 322 Lucretius’ De Rerum Natura

    Units: 4
    The didactic epic as a vehicle of Epicurean philosophy.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • LAT 325 Roman Historians

    Units: 4
    Readings from Sallust, Livy, and Tacitus.
    Prerequisite: LAT 222  or satisfactory completion of placement test.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • LAT 365 Latin Literature of the Silver Age

    Units: 4
    Readings in Seneca, Martial, Pliny, and other representative writers.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • LAT 385 Late and Medieval Latin

    Units: 4
    Selections from poets and prose writers from late antiquity to the 15th century.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • LAT 390 Special Problems

    Units: 1, 2, 3, 4
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Supervised, individual studies. No more than one registration permitted. Enrollment by petition only.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • LAT 450 Readings in Latin Literature

    Units: 4
    Max Units: 12.0
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Readings in various authors and genres of Latin literature.
    Prerequisite: 300-level Latin course.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • LAT 490x Directed Research

    Units: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
    Max Units: 12.0
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Individual research and readings.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • LAT 499 Special Topics

    Units: 2, 3, 4
    Max Units: 8.0
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter


Law

Courses numbered 500 and above are open only to law students except by special permission from the associate dean.
  

  • LAW 101w Law and the U.S. Constitution in Global History

    Units: 4
    By examining key constitutional moments involving race, rights, and revolutions, students will explore how legal meaning changes over time.
    Satisfies Global Perspective in Category G: Citizenship in a Diverse World
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • LAW 200w Law and Society

    Units: 4
    Sources and structure of law; history of Bill of Rights emphasizing effect on criminal justice system; limits of law in solving problems in American society.
    Satisfies Global Perspective in Category G: Citizenship in a Diverse World
    Instruction Mode: Lecture, Discussion
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • LAW 201 Law and Politics: Electing a President

    Units: 4
    Examination of the rules and realities of American politics, and the role politics plays in American life and culture.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

    Crosslisted as POSC 201
  

  • LAW 220 The Legal Profession

    Units: 2
    Introduces students to the basic aspects of the legal profession.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Credit/No Credit

  

  • LAW 250 Children and Law

    Units: 4
    Examines topics such as children’s suggestibility, decision-making, and risk and resiliency all as they apply to legal settings.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • LAW 275p The Origin and Evolution of American Civil Rights Law

    Units: 4
    Traces the development of U.S. constitutional and statutory mechanisms designed to fulfill the promise of equality under the law.
    Satisfies Global Perspective in Category H: Traditions and Historical Foundations
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • LAW 300 Concepts in American Law

    Units: 4
    The main concepts and topics in American law, in the historical, economic and cultural contexts in which they have developed.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • LAW 320p Law, Slavery, and Race

    Units: 4
    Studies how law, politics and culture interacted to shape the institution of slavery and the development of modern conceptions of race.
    Satisfies Global Perspective in Category H: Traditions and Historical Foundations
    Instruction Mode: Lecture, Discussion
    Grading Option: Letter

    Crosslisted as HIST 320
  

  • LAW 325 Justice Innovation Startup Lab

    Units: 4
    Learn to use design thinking to develop creative solutions that improve access to justice in the US and around the world.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

    Crosslisted as ACAD 325
  

  • LAW 350 Law and Entrepreneurship

    Units: 4
    Examines areas of the law that impact entrepreneurs, starting, operating and financing businesses. Topics include: selection of business entities; securities laws and issues that arise in fundraising; employment law; contracts; torts; intellectual property; global expansion; mergers and acquisitions; and IPOs.
    Registration Restriction: Not open to Accounting and Business Administration majors
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • LAW 402 Psychology and Law

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Explores issues of responsibility and credibility. Intentional and unintentional behavior. Clinical biases. Topics include witness credibility, confessions, cults, hostages, battered persons, and repressed memories.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • LAW 403 Mental Health Law

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Issues at the intersection of law and psychology, both civil — e.g., civil commitment — and criminal — e.g., the insanity defense. Emphasis on ethical issues.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • LAW 404 Law and Psychology: Examining the Criminal Justice Process

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Examination of the capacity of the criminal justice process to produce accurate verdicts. Application of psychological research on witnesses, detectives, suspects, judges and jurors.
    Recommended Preparation: PSYC 100 .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • LAW 444 Civil and Political Rights and Liberties

    Units: 4
    (Enroll in POSC 444 )
  

  • LAW 450 Law, Atrocity Crimes and Transitional Justice

    Units: 4
    Historical overview of the evolution of international legal norms prohibiting atrocity crimes found in the law of armed conflict, international human rights law and the 1948 Genocide Convention.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • LAW 502 Procedure I

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Fa
    Consideration of the participants in litigation — private and public plaintiffs, defendants, and courts. Information exchange, process, outcomes, and costs of lawsuits.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Numeric

  

  • LAW 503 Contracts

    Units: 2, 3, 4
    Terms Offered: Fa
    The interpretation and enforcement of promises and agreements.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Numeric

  

  • LAW 504 Criminal Law

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: Sp
    The crime problem and the legislative response to it through substantive criminal law; administration of criminal justice through police, prosecutorial, sentencing, and penological discretion.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Numeric

  

  • LAW 505 Legal Profession

    Units: 2, 3, 4
    Functions of the lawyer in modern society; history and organization of the legal profession; the adversary system; equal access to justice; other problems of ethics and professional responsibility.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Numeric

  

  • LAW 507 Property

    Units: 2, 3, 4
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    The idea of property as understood through economic and philosophical concepts. Rights in land, water and other natural resources. Forms of shared ownership (e.g., landlord and tenant), and a survey of mechanisms for controlling land use.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Numeric

  

  • LAW 508 Constitutional Law: Structure

    Units: 2, 3, 4, 5
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Considers the delineation of spheres of responsibility between the judiciary and legislature, the nation and the state, and the government and the individual.
    Registration Restriction: Open only to Law majors
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Numeric

  

  • LAW 509 Torts I

    Units: 2, 3, 4
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Individual’s obligation not to harm others; bases for compensating persons who are harmed, either by holding responsible whoever is at fault or by invoking other principles of liability, including the efficiency of resource allocation and the spreading of losses.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Numeric

  

  • LAW 510 Legal Research

    Units: 0 or 1
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Examination of the basic sources of law for federal and California jurisdictions, utilizing a vast array of sources from books to computer-assisted research and analyzing research methodology and techniques.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Credit/No Credit

  

  • LAW 511a Legal Writing

    Units: 1, 2
    Terms Offered: Fa
    Two-semester course focusing on developing analytic and communication skills. Lawyers will analyze legal principles and incisively apply them to facts.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Credit/No Credit

  

  • LAW 511b Legal Writing

    Units: 1, 2
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Two-semester course focusing on developing analytic and communication skills. Lawyers will analyze legal principles and incisively apply them to facts.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Credit/No Credit

  

  • LAW 512 Law, Language and Values

    Units: 2, 3, 4
    An introduction to legal interpretation and normative reasoning. Among the topics addressed are statutory and common law interpretation, the rule of law, externalities, and inequality.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Numeric

  

  • LAW 515 Legal Research, Writing and Advocacy I

    Units: 2, 3
    Development of legal research, writing and advocacy skills. Emphasis on objective legal writing, including memoranda, and researching case law through primary and secondary sources.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Numeric

  

  • LAW 516 Legal Research, Writing and Advocacy II

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Continuation of LAW 515 . Development of legal research, writing, and advocacy skills. Emphasis on persuasive legal writing, including appellate briefs, and researching statutory and administrative law. Participation in a moot court program.
    Prerequisite: LAW 515 
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Numeric

  

  • LAW 520 Introduction to U.S. Legal System

    Units: 2
    The basic structure of government in the U.S., including the constitutionally mandated division of power in the federal government and the federal system of power sharing between state and federal systems. A comparative perspective on selected substantive and procedural matters, such as common law reasoning, jury trials, adversary process, and various aspects of civil procedure. Open to LLM students only.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Numeric

  

  • LAW 521 Topics in American Law

    Units: 1, 2, 3, 4
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    This course provides LLM and MCL students with a survey of various topics in American law, including criminal law, evidence, family law, constitutional law, torts, wills and trusts, administrative law and property law. Open to LLM and MCL students only.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Numeric

  

  • LAW 522 Entertainment Law and Industry

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Provides a detailed survey of entertainment law, entertainment-related transactions and litigation, and legal issues facing the entertainment industry.
    Registration Restriction: Open only to Law students
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Numeric

  

  • LAW 527 Intellectual Property: Copyright

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Provides an introduction to copyright law, the application of copyright laws in litigation, and the management of copyrighted works.
    Registration Restriction: Open only to USC Gould School of Law students
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Numeric

  

  • LAW 528 Constitutional Law

    Units: 2
    Covers the delineation of spheres of responsibility between three branches of the federal government, the federal government and the states and the government and individuals.
    Registration Restriction: Open only to Law students
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Numeric

  

  • LAW 530 Fundamental Business Principles

    Units: 3
    Exposes students to everyday business and finance vocabulary, concepts and modes of analysis. Strongly recommended for students without significant prior business experience.
    Registration Restriction: Open only to Law students
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Numeric

  

  • LAW 531 Ethical Issues for Public Interest, Government and Criminal Lawyers

    Units: 3
    Covers legal ethics issues with an emphasis on access to justice, nonprofit practice settings, and duties of prosecutors and defense attorneys. Fulfills Legal Profession requirement.
    Registration Restriction: Open only to Law students
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Numeric

  

  • LAW 532 Constitutional Law: Rights

    Units: 3
    Examines constitutional rights particularly ones protected under the Equal Protection/Due Process Clauses and related questions of judicial role and theories of interpretation.
    Registration Restriction: Open only to Law students
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Numeric

  

  • LAW 550 Business Law Digest

    Units: 1
    Max Units: 4
    Write or edit articles for the Business Law Digest, a student-run publication that publishes advisory articles relevant to the intersection of business and law.
    Registration Restriction: Open only to USC Gould School of Law students
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Credit/No Credit

  

  • LAW 551 Intellectual Property: Trademark

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Provides an introduction to trademark law, the federal trademark registration process, and the application of trademark laws in litigation.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Numeric

  

  • LAW 559 Human Resource Compliance

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Provides an overview of human resource related law, and various legal issues involved in the employment relationship.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Numeric

  

  • LAW 560 Academic and Professional Skills for U.S. Law Studies I

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: Fa
    Explores and develops the legal communication and analytical skills necessary to the practice of law.
    Registration Restriction: Open only to master students enrolled in Certificate in U.S. Legal Studies program at USC Gould School of Law.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Credit/No Credit

  

  • LAW 561a Fundamentals of Legal Writing Skills

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: Fa
    Explores purpose and form of legal documents and emphasizes effective communication.
    Registration Restriction: Open only to master students enrolled in the Certificate in U.S. Legal Studies program at USC Gould School of Law
    Duplicates Credit in former LAW 561
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Credit/No Credit

  

  • LAW 561b Fundamentals of Legal Writing Skills

    Units: 2
    Explores purpose and form of legal documents and emphasizes effective communication.
    Prerequisite: LAW 561a 
    Registration Restriction: Open only to master students enrolled in the Certificate in U.S. Legal Studies program at USC Gould School of Law
    Duplicates Credit in former LAW 561
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Credit/No Credit

  

  • LAW 562 Introduction to U.S. Legal Culture and Practice

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: Fa
    Explores the foundation for U.S. law and culture, including the historical and contemporary development of U.S. law.
    Registration Restriction: Open only to master students enrolled in Certificate in U.S. Legal Studies program at USC Gould School of Law.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Credit/No Credit

  

  • LAW 563 Presentation Skills for International Lawyers

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: Fa
    Explores the art of public speaking and effective communication in legal settings.
    Registration Restriction: Open only to master students enrolled in Certificate in U.S. Legal Studies program at USC Gould School of Law.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Credit/No Credit

  

  • LAW 564 Persuasive Advocacy

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Explores the communication and presentation skills necessary for persuasive legal advocacy.
    Registration Restriction: Open only to master students enrolled in Certificate in U.S. Legal Studies program at USC Gould School of Law.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Credit/No Credit

  

  • LAW 565 U.S. Common Law Analysis and Skills

    Units: 2
    Explores how judicial opinions interact with other sources of law and develop law in the U.S.
    Registration Restriction: Open only to master students enrolled in Certificate in U.S. Legal Studies program at USC Gould School of Law.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Credit/No Credit

  

  • LAW 566 Academic and Professional Skills for U.S. Law Studies II

    Units: 1
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Explores effective legal communication and professionalism skills.
    Registration Restriction: Open only to master students enrolled in Certificate in U.S. Legal Studies program at USC Gould School of Law.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Credit/No Credit

  

  • LAW 567 Introduction to Litigation in U.S. Courts

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Provides an overview of the United States legal system for those unfamiliar with common law courts, including the mechanics of the U.S. Court system in both criminal and civil courts, as well as more detailed analysis of torts and intellectual property disputes.
    Registration Restriction: Open only to law students
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Numeric

 

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