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Created: July 27, 2003
Latest Update: September 8, 2007
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CRMJ/SOCA 365 Race, Crime, Law

You will be held accountable for purposes of grading for the readings and exercises 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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Week 2: Week of September 9, 2007

Optional Dear Habermas Workshop - Wednesday, September 12th, 12 noon to 1 p.m. in the microcomputing classroom (D1 level in the library).

Topic: The Teaching/Learning Model (also, Adversarialism & Mutuality)

Preparatory Readings:

• NEW What's Constructivist Learning? (Read entire issue #2)
• NEW The Visual Can Provoke Discourse that Matters (Read entire issue #1)
• NEW Praxis: Learn by Doing
  
  
• Class and Internet Discussions
• Those Infamous Grades and Letters of Recommendation
• "The Case Against Gold Stars" by Alfie Kohn.
• Cooperative Learning
• Preface
  
  
• Richard Delgado & Jean Stefancic. The Derrick Bell Reader . -- .
• Gordon Fellman. Rambo and the Dalai Lama. -- Parts 1, 2 & 3.
• Samuel Walker and others. The Color of Justice. --
  
  

Lecture related links:



• "Academic Accountability"
• "Who's Habermas? Why Habermas?"
• W.I. Thomas "Definition of the Situation
  
  




Concepts to be covered:



• illocutionary discourse
• the aesthetics of answerability
• monologic non-answerability
• taxonomy of learning
• the 6Cs
• interdependence
• the external and internal motivations of learning
• dog letters
• academic accountability
• the relationship between "race, crime, and the law"



Discussion Questions:

Note: In order to answer these discussion questions, you will need to read the five links noted above the Fellman reading assignment for this week.

1. What are the connections between the "6Cs," and illocutionary discourse? How do these concepts relate to "race, crime, and the law"?

2. How are grades and grading handled in this course? How do you get a "C" in this course? How do you get an "A" in this course? What is a "dog letter"? How does a "dog letter" relate to grades and grading? Why.

3. If you are new to this teaching/learning model, what questions do you have? If you are a returning student to this teaching/learning model, what advice would you give to a new student? Why.

4. What is the relationship between "race, crime and law"? What should the relationship be? Why.

5. Compare and contrast the beginning of all three required textbooks for this course. What are some differences? What are some similarities? Why.



Suggested Creative Measures:




Note: Start thinking about ideas for your creative measures. Must relate to "race, crime, law." 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 are expected to turn in a bibliography with each visual project. No term papers! Allow time to dialogue and present your creative measure in class. Email me your ideas ASAP.





Recommended Readings:



• Desmond Tutu. No Future Without Forgiveness.
• MoveOn.org. Move On's 50 Ways to Love Your Country.
  
  

Course Syllabus for CRMJ/SOCA 365 "Race, Crime, Law"

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