HONR 385 - Global Capital Punishment

Credit Hours: 3
Lecture Hours: 3
Laboratory (or Other) Hours: 0

Other Course Attribute(s): HONR, LASC, LAUP

Prerequisite(s): ENGL 100
Restriction(s): Restricted to students who are in the Honors program or eligible for the Honors program with a 3.3 GPA

This course examines the history, law, politics, and policy of capital punishment. The course begins with an introduction to the origins of the death penalty in the United States and its role pre and post Civil War and its current status. The course will then focus on the many moral and philosophical arguments associated with capital punishment. After exploring the US, students will have the opportunity to examine and compare the current status of the death penalty in a variety of other countries and regions. The final part of the course focuses on the future of capital punishment in the US and abroad. Crosslisted with CJUS 384

Student Learning Outcomes of the Course:

Understand the methods social scientists use to explore social phenomena, including observation, hypothesis development, measurement and data collection, experimentation, evaluation of evidence, and employment of mathematical and interpretive analysis;
Demonstrate knowledge of major concepts, models and issues of at least one discipline in the social sciences;
Compare the United States’ systems of punishment with those of other nations;
Analyze case examples and research data related to the scope of capital punishment in the U.S. and around the world; and
Synthesize data pertaining to capital punishment around the world into case studies, assignments and/or writing projects.

Repeatable: No
CIP Code: 430104