PubPol 750.005: Topics: Civil Rights Policy in the U.S.

This course explores various approaches to civil rights policy, including efforts to prevent discrimination, to "level the playing field," to create equality, and to provide compensation. Policies targeted towards gender, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, language, physical and mental disability, and citizenship will all be considered.

Faculty Expert

Ann Chih Lin

Associate Professor of Public Policy; Director, Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

Lin, a political scientist, studies how people experience policy implementation. Her current work examines racial and ethnic difference in the experience of the COVID-19 pandemic; bias reduction against Muslims; national security scapegoating of immigrant groups; conservatism among immigrants; and subnational labor migration policy.

• Ann Lin
• civil rights