This course will focus on the mechanics of judicial decision making and opinion writing. Each week, students will read the lower court opinion and merits and selected amicus briefs of selected cases currently pending before the U.S. Supreme Court. The class will focus on these cases and deliberate the merits of each side's arguments, much like the Supreme Court does during its conferences. We will also explore theories of judicial decision making, interpretation and policy. At the end of each class, we will "vote" as to how we think the decision should come out.

Energy and Mineral Law and Policy will provide an introduction to energy and mineral law, regulation and policy in the United States. It will cover the regulatory environment, state and federal, for natural gas, electricity, coal, and nuclear power. It will explore the generation, distribution and regulation of electricity, coal, oil and gas, and renewable energy sources. Regulation of utilities will also be covered.

This course provides an introduction to issues and laws pertaining to the rights of animals, including: the different statutory and non- statutory definitions of the term "animal," their evolution, and the significance of these changes; the general and specific legal status of animals is considered; the history of the legal status and rights of two other types of property that belong to the tangible sentient personal property category (slaves and minor unemancipated children), and how the criminal law did, and does, intersect with the property owner's right in this category o

Students in the advanced clinic course will continue their supervised casework from the previous semester, take on additional and more complex civil legal matters, including cases likely to go to trial, while helping the director supervise the new clinic students. Advanced clinic students will continue to develop their legal skills, improve their leadership and supervisory skills and increase their substantive and practical knowledge.

A linguistic corpus is a collection of language samples chosen to model language use of a specific speech community and to provide primary materials for linguistic investigation. Modern digital corpora harness the quantitative power of computers for data-rich analysis in all areas of linguistic study. This course surveys the key principles of corpus linguistics and the criteria used in assembling linguistic corpora.

A survey and historical study of culturally diverse literature for youth of all ages. Students will engage in extensive reading, evaluation, and discussion of literature and the issues related to developing an understanding of various cultures and special populations within the United States.

Undergraduate topics course. The mathematical content will be selected at the discretion of the instructor. The course satisfies the Graduation Composition and Communication Requirement for mathematics majors. This course is a Graduation Composition and Communication Requirement (GCCR) course in certain programs, and hence is not likely to be eligible for automatic transfer credit to UK.

This course is the second of a two-course sequence (with MUS 304), designed to develop students' written and oral communication skills and information literacy in music. MUS 305 focuses on written communication. To be taken simultaneously with MUS 303. With MUS 304, satisfies the Graduation Composition and Communications Requirement. This course is a Graduation Composition and Communication Requirement (GCCR) course in certain programs, and hence is not likely to be eligible for automatic transfer credit to UK.

The course emphasizes critical thinking, planning, implementation and evaluation in the nursing management of patients requiring emergent trauma care. This course provides a foundation of trauma nursing and focuses on application of scientific process to needs of trauma patients.

The course provides students with the skills for ongoing professional development and success in nursing.