CRMJ/SOCA 352: Law and Social Change.

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Law and Social Change
Spring 2008
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CRMJ/SOCA 352 Law and Social Change
You will be held accountable for the readings and discussion questions listed here. There will be no "testing." That means that you will not have to live in anxious anticipation of what we will ask and how much you will have to know. Instead, we will provide weekly discussion questions, lectures, essays, and concepts we feel that you should know as a result of having taken this course. You will assure us of that learning and receive your grade for the questions and concepts about which you choose to write and talk with us. In addition you will find detailed explanations and examples on our grading policies in the first week's reading.
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"Law and Social Change" Spring 2008

"Arrigo Theories" Spring 2008

"Images of Color/Images of Crime" Spring 2008

Week 16: Week of May 4, 2008

Topic:

Law and Social Change: Theory, Policy, Practice
The Teaching/Learning Model Revisited

Preparatory Readings

Arrigo. Social Justice/Criminal Justice. entirety.
Mann, Zatz & Rodriguez. Images of Color, Images of Crime. entirety .
Documentary/Film: "-----" (to be shown in class)

Lecture related links:

Auto-Poietic Learning Systems

Participate in the Community Building discussion group .

Curran and Takata. Sociology of Law Handbook:
-- Introduction
-- Chapter 1, part 1
-- Chapter 1, part 2
-- Chapter 2

Martha Minow. Making All the Difference: Exclusion, Inclusion and American Law. Check out this link Martha Minow on the Dear Habermas site.

"My Role in Social Change" Poem by LaTricia White (Spring 2004)

"They Ain't Us: Identity as an Anti-Norm"

W.I. Thomas "Definition of the Situation

National Criminal Justice Reference Service. Administered by the Office of Justice Programs, U.S. Department of Justice.

Concepts to be covered:

the relationship between criminal justice and social justice
"theory, policy, practice"
tension between facts and norms
structural violence
private autonomy v. public autonomy
illocutionary discourse
6Cs
the taxonomy of learning

Discussion Questions:

Note: In order to answer these discussion questions, you will need to do all of the assigned readings for this week, and view "----" to be shown in class.
Other than your own visual projects, which ones were the most interesting? Why.
What are the three most important things that you learned in this course? Why.
What advice would you give to students new to this teaching/learning model? Why.
What ideas and suggestions do you have to improve on this teaching/learning model? Why.

Suggested Visual Projects:

Note: Start thinking about ideas for your creative measures. Must relate to "law and social change." Must be approved before starting your creative measure. Cannot be something that you are doing or have done for another course. Research cannot be 100% online (i.e., google, askjeeves). Must conduct library research using scholarly works, (not the popular press -- Time Magazine, Newsweek, Sports Illustrated). You will need to submit a bibliography with each project. No term papers! Allow time to dialogue and present your creative measure in class. Email me your ideas ASAP!

Examine how various writers from a diversity of disciplines and fields discuss the future. Are they optimistic or pessimistic? Why.
What is the mass media's images of the future? Why.
Read one of the recommended books listed below on the future.

Recommended Readings:

George Ritzer. The McDonaldization of Society.
Gordon Fellman. . Rambo and the Dalai Lama: The Compulsion to Win and Its Threat to Human Survival.
Jurgen Habermas. Between Facts and Norms.
Charles Derber. People Before Profit.
Paul Klugman. The Great Unraveling: Losing Our Way in the New Century.
Michael Moore. Dude, Where's My Country?

--- Jurgen Habermas. Between Facts and Norms.
--- Martha Minow. Making All the Difference: Exclusion, Inclusion and American Law. Check out this link Martha Minow on the Dear Habermas site.

Self-Assessment Questions for each Visual Project:

List the names of the individuals in your group. What did you do exactly for this visual project? (If in a group, explain the division of labor and your individual contribution to this visual project).
Briefly explain how your visual project relates to "law and social change" (i.e., the readings, the documentaries). What did you learn?
Assess how the 6Cs apply to your visual project, with special attention on competence and creativity. What is your visual project self-assessment (provide a letter grade) ___ ? Why.

Course Syllabus for CRMJ/SOCA 352 "Law and Social Change"

takata@uwp.edu

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