First assignment: Adversarial Criminal Law System
Create a 15 to 20 minute powerpoint presentation or video comparing the idea of our criminal law system as adversarial to other descriptions of how a courtroom works.
The assignment should include the following:
Submissions must be thought provoking and provide a critical analysis of the criminal law system.
If you select the PowerPoint presentation, it must contain a minimum of 20 slides.
If you select the youtube video, it must contain 15 minutes of original dialogue. Steps on how to upload your video to youtube can be found here https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/57924?hl=en
Use the "notes" section of the PowerPoint to provide your analysis. The PowerPoint slide should have minimum text and graphics. The notes section will contain your analysis. (This is the information you will share with an audience.)
2-3 references. Only one reference may be from the internet (not Wikipedia). References should be located on the last slide of the PowerPoint presentation or embedded within your dialogue in the video. (Cite your references).
The PowerPoint must be free of spelling and grammatical errors. The video must be free of (spoken) grammatical errors.
Assingment 2:
Project B: Review of the Literature
Project B addresses the related research on your topic. One reason we conduct a review of the literature is to make sure that our research proposal is original and not just a replication of work already conducted. The literature review is a discussion of studies, research reports, statistics, etc. that are related to your research topic. You should include a review of the most pertinent and recent research articles from professional journals. Begin your literature review as soon as possible as this process is time consuming and make take you longer than you originally planned.
Project "B" Instructions
Provide a review of at least EIGHT research articles on the topic you have selected. You will want to select articles that are scholarly and/or empirical. A good literature review should tie previous research together in some logical way and should acknowledge the importance of your intended research. The literature review should provide a synthesis of the articles you select rather than a series of article summaries. The final product for Project B should be approximately five to seven pages.