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Jan 03, 2025
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JS 619 - Ethical Issues In Law (2 units)
Discussion and analysis of ethical behavior and justice at the point in which law, literature and life experience intersect.
Grading Basis: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory
Units of Lecture: 2
Offered: Every Fall and Spring
Student Learning Outcomes
Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:
1. describe the ways in which literature exemplifies ethical issues facing the judiciary.
2. 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.
3. explain and apply judicial ethics in a manner that enhances public confidence in the judiciary.
4. identify the formal fallacies associated with “deductive reasoning.
5. recognize the kinds of sentences you tend to use and edit your own writing.
6. describe what we do when we read and state why the psychology of reading is important to writers.
7. demonstrate refined understanding of the constituent parts of a judicial opinion.
8. identify and avoid ambiguous and unclear grammatical constructions.
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