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Announcements:
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Welcome to the First Week of Classes. Reminder, there is no class meeting on Thursday as I will be away. Instead click here to complete the online assignmnent (diagnostic baseline).
Materials:
Library. One copy is on reserve and can be checked out for a limited time. If there are no copies in the Bookstore for purchase, please order from the Publisher: click here (digital copies are cheaper) or click here to order on Amazon.
Syllabus:
Click here for Model Syllabus Template Pol 66
Click here for the CLASS YOUTUBE CHANNEL with video lectures and additional support
Click here for multimedia that complements the Course Reader: Law and Identity
Grading:
Grading: 200 points possible without extra credit.
Online Diagnostic PPrim 10 points
Group Lab Report up to 30 points
Reading Quiz 1: Scott v. sandford 10 points
Campus Walk Free Write 10 points
Reading Quiz 2 10 points
Analysis Assignment 10 points
Midterm 20 points
Group Reflection Letter 20 points
Advocacy Reading Assignment 10 points
Analysis Assignment Group 10 points
Campus Happening Presentation 20 points
Campus Happening Debrief 20 points
Analysis Revision (extra credit) 10 points
Final Exam (long answer) 50 points
Calendar of Assignments, Readings, Lectures, Videos and other Course Materials
Monday | Wednesday | Thursday | |
3.4 | Discussion: role power diagram
Activity: jurisdiction mapping |
No Class – Online Assignment: diagnostic p-prim
Baseline (10) Click here to fill out the survey and receive ⅓ of your attendance grade |
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3.9, 11, 12 | Discussion: learning outcomes, transfer
Syllabus Review Click here to review the academic options at KCC Student Development Click here to review the major options at John Jay College of Criminal Justice |
Discussion: the relationship between con law and liberal democracy; autonomy, security/welfare, participation | Video Lecture: critical thinking
Discussion: critical perspectives; race, gender, class, parliamentarians Join A Group and Begin Group Lab Report (up to 30 points): Click here for the Lab Report Word Document |
3.16, 18, 19 | Activity: Power123 and P-Prim | Reading Quiz 1: Scott v. sandford
Discussion: Power 1 and 2 |
Visual symbol to Organizer table: economic base of relations, class, gender, race |
3.23, 25, 26 | Activity: campus walk | Debrief: campus walk | Free-write (10): Power and Campus Walk: see civic engagement essay and rubric
Review |
3.30, 4.1, 2 | Reading Quiz 2 (10): Brown v. Board of Education Doll Studies, Tired of Being Labelled, Patricia Hill Collins | Discussion: construct of SCOTUS; 3 i’s of Law, ideologies
Analysis Assignment (10) complete this Google Form: click here |
Lecture: Ideology and Institution; Marbury v. Madison |
4.6, 4.8 | online midterm review: Originalism, Mapplethorpe, critical perspectives applied. Midterm open for 3 weeks (20). | SPRING BREAK | SB |
4.13, 15, 16 | SB | SB | SB |
4.20, 22, 23 | Review: P1,P2,P3 | Review: 3 i’s of Law
Lecture: the 3 I’s of Law |
Activity: Advocacy Simulation; Identity + Agency |
4.27, 29, 30 | Group Work: Law as Ideal; Declaration of Independence, Lincoln’s Portrait, Rich | Group Work: Law as Real; Quest for Legal Sovereignty, Politics of Land Reform, Remix | Group Work: Reflection (20). Short letter about class so far. Dear Nobody, |
5.4, 6, 7 | Workshop: Advocacy Readings; main point, way of making meaning, direct quote, your understanding | work on your own | work on your own; google form due for Advocacy Reading assignment: click here |
5.11,13,14 | Group Happening Plan Presentation and Ad for Campus Event (20) | Group Happening Plan Presentation and Ad for Campus Event | Group Happening Plan Presentation and Ad for Campus Event |
5.18,20,21 | Campus Happenings | Campus Happenings | Group Online analysis assignment
click here. 10 points. Can be done in groups. |
5.25,27,28 | OFF | Debrief (20) | Final In Class Review for Exam
Revise analysis Assignment Due: Click here |
6.1, 3,4 | advising | advising | Last Class: Final Exam: long answers. |
6.8 Finals Begin |
Resources:
To look up Cases use Legal Information Institute by Cornell (click here) or Google Scholar (click here)
For multimedia resources (videos, etc.) click here and browse.