America's Unwritten Constitution
开始时间: 04/22/2022
持续时间: 6 weeks
课程主页: https://www.coursera.org/course/auc
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"America's Unwritten Constitution," (AUC) is the second of two new stand-alone courses, from Professor Ahkil Amar. The first course, "America's Written Constitution," (AWC) was completed last month. These courses were offered together in January 2014 under the name "Constitutional Law," however, feedback from our students suggested the learning experience would be more valuable and effective if we split the course into two distinct offerings.
In AWC, students were introduced to one of the most important texts in human history -- the United States Constitution. Professor Amar guided his class through the Document's text Article by Article, Amendment by Amendment. This is certainly a good starting point for understanding the Constitution, but in order to fully appreciate it, we must go deeper...
AUC, takes the next step, going beyond the text of the Constitution to ask questions like: What are the ground rules for proper constitutional interpretation? Who decides what the text means? How does the written constitution interact with unwritten sources of constitutional authority, such as judicial decisions, presidential proclamations, landmark statutes, and widespread popular understands?
Students who complete this course will have the constitutional knowledge necessary to formulate their own opinions on the ever-present constitutional debates impacting U.S. society.
Please join us this January, as we delve into America's Unwritten Constitution.
***Please note that AWC is not a prerequisite for this course. It is also worth mentioning that all the video lectures from AWC will be available for viewing throughout the running of AUC, should anyone want to refresh their memory of the Constitution's text.***
课程大纲
This course will run from January 27 through early May (we are likely to provide you time after the release of the final lectures [April 21 - 25] to complete your final writing assignment). Please note that we will take a spring break from March 9 - 14.
This course will cover material from Professor Amar's book America's Unwritten Constitution. We will cover two chapter topics each week. We will also provide "bonus content" each week. The nature of this content will vary. It might be a video conversation between Professor Amar and students or colleagues. It might be a live video chat with the teaching assistants. It might be one hour where the TAs answer questions in real-time in one of the discussion forums.
Week 1
- Monday, January 12: "Reading Between the Lines" and "Heeding the Deed" video lectures released
- Friday, January 16: bonus content released
Week 2
- Monday, January 19: Mastery Quiz 1 Released
- Monday, January 19: "Hearing the People" and "Confronting Modern Case Law" video lectures released
- Friday, January 23: bonus content released
Week 3
- Monday, January 26: Mastery Quiz 1 due
- Monday, January 26: Writing Assignment 1 released
- Monday, January 26: "Putting Precedent in its Place" and "Honoring the Icons" video lectures released
- Friday, January 30: bonus content released
Week 4
- Monday, February 2: Mastery Quiz 2 released
- Monday, February 2: "'Remembering the Ladies'" and "Following Washington's Lead" video lectures released
- Friday, February 6: bonus content released
- Sunday, February 8: Writing Assignment 1 evaluation period ends
Week 5
- Monday, February 9: Mastery Quiz 2 due
- Monday, February 9: Writing Assignment 2 released
- Monday, February 9: "Interpreting Government Practices" and "Joining the Party" video lectures released
- Friday, February 13: bonus content released
Week 6 and Beyond
- Monday, February 16: Mastery Quiz 3 released
- Monday, February 16 "Doing the Right Thing" and "Envisioning the Future" video lectures released
- Friday, February 20: bonus content released
- Sunday, February 22: Writing Assignment 2 evaluation period ends
- Monday, February 23: Mastery Quiz 3 due
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