29 April 2010

What did you see?


In the opening activity to Race & Ethnicity you were shown slides of 15 people and had to determine both their Race and Occupation. Many if not all students were unable to correctly identify 25% of the slides. What does this activity tell a person about how they perceive people of a different race or ethnicity?

27 April 2010

IAT - Do you believe in it?


After spending today in the Computer Lab taking part in Harvard's IAT please address the following questions...1) Do you think the information the IAT gave you about yourself is accurate? 2) What ways could the test be improved in your opinion?

06 April 2010

Victimless Crimes...


Now that you have studied the Five Classifications of Crime in class please address the following questions...

1) Are victimless crimes only hurting the person committing the crime or do you think that society as a whole suffers as well?

2) Should victimless crimes be decriminalized?