Spring 2027

Civil Rights: Policing, Prisons, Voting, Housing, Employment

Explores civil rights, discrimination detection, and legal constraints on government remedies in employment, housing, voting, policing, and prisons.

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Summary

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Recent recorded grades — Fall 2023: 3.54 GPA, 84.0% A/AB (n=150 letter grades); Spring 2025: 3.53 GPA, 75.0% A/AB (n=100 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.62 GPA, 89.6% A/AB (n=106 letter grades).

What you’ll be able to do

  • Identify key historical events that led to the conception and creation of civil rights.

  • Identify constitutional justifications for the use of federal authority to legislate in the area of civil rights.

  • Summarize statutes and cases that protect against discrimination in employment, housing, and voting.

  • Demonstrate an understanding of major civil rights controversies surrounding political detainees, prison inmates, and those subject to police force during street encounters.

  • Demonstrate an advanced understanding of the historical context, constitutional arguments, and current scholarly debates concerning civil rights law.

Source: UW Guide 1 UW Guide 2

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Prerequisites

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Student experience

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Recent recorded grades — Fall 2023: 3.54 GPA, 84.0% A/AB (n=150 letter grades); Spring 2025: 3.53 GPA, 75.0% A/AB (n=100 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.62 GPA, 89.6% A/AB (n=106 letter grades).

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Topics

  • Definitions and detection of discrimination based on race, sex, national origin, religion, and disability.
  • Legal constraints on government remedies for discrimination in employment, housing, and voting.
  • Intersection of government power, civil rights, and targeting of groups during national crises.
  • Conditions of incarceration and police use-of-force doctrine.

Skills

  • Identify historical events and constitutional justifications for civil rights legislation.
  • Summarize anti-discrimination statutes and cases in employment, housing, and voting.
  • Analyze civil rights controversies regarding detainees, prisoners, and police use of force.
  • Understand historical context, constitutional arguments, and scholarly debates in civil rights law.

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About this comparison

1280 courses over the same term, each with at least 30 recorded letter grades. Cross-listed courses count once. GPA is not a measure of difficulty or teaching quality. The typical course is the median by recorded grade count; tied values are not counted as lower. Grade counts describe course scale, not unique students or typical section size.

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Dataset & model

Recorded 2026-10-14

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Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B
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