Tuesday February 1. 2011

A & D - Criminology 12 - Today we'll try to make sense of your ideas on the nature of crime that we brainstormed in class yesterday which lead us into an exploration of criminological theory. To start, I want you to continue with your brainstormed list of all the reasons you can think why someone would commit a crime. Yesterday we started to collect all of your ideas on the board and today we'll try to categorize them into crime theory clusters. After, we'll begin our look at the nature vs. nurture debate by focusing on the history of psychological and sociological criminology (Power Point). For the rest of the week I'd like you to create your own theory of why crime happens. You'll need to use the brainstormed list we did in class along with the notes you take today on the history of Criminology. Use the Crime Theory Web Site found on this link. Tomorrow we'll look at the difference between deviance and criminal behaviour (acts that are criminal but not deviant and deviant but not criminal) and the three views on crime (interactionist, consensus, conflict).

C - Geography 12 - Today we'll work on learning to observe as a geographer would where we'll look beyond simple observations and try to see a larger picture with connections to the wider world. We'll practice an analysis of a photo in class and you'll start working on your first assignment for the course which is a geographic analysis of a photo from a Canadian Geographic magazine. You'll need to use the Observing as a Geographer Would questions (in your week 1 package that you'll get today) to help with your analysis.

B- Earth & Space Science 11 - Today we'll start a discussion of spheres in the class. I will give you a diagram and some notes on the Earth's four spheres: geosphere, hydrosphere, atmosphere, and the biosphere along with some questions from page 19 of the Earth Science and the Environment textbook. Tomorrow we'll look at systems For more on the spheres follow this link here.