Today's schedule is A-B-C-D
A & D - Criminology 12 - Today we are going to the library to work on our next blog / journal entry. Below, you'll find a question on hypermasculinity, male socialization, and sexual assault. I will need you to answer that question and then find a news story about a sexual assault. You will need to try to explain the motivation and roots of the behaviour of the assaulter in the story.
Explain how sexual behaviour could be socialized in males. Do you think that males who commit sexual assault are "hypermasculine"? Why and where do men learn "hypermasculine" behaviour?
The factors that predispose men to commit sexual assault include evolutionary factors, male socialization, psychological abnormality, and social learning. Most criminologists believe that rape is not sexually motivated. The evolutionary and biological factors of males suggest that sexual assault may be instinctual and developed over the ages in an effort to perpetuate the species. This notion holds that men who are sexually aggressive will have a reproductive edge over their more passive peers. Conversely, the male socialization view argues that men are socialized to be the aggressors and expect to be sexually active with many women. Sexual insecurity, then, may then lead some men to commit sexual assault to bolster their self-image. Hypermasculine men typically have a callous sexual attitude and believe that violence is manly. Finally, another view is that men learn to commit sexual assaults as they learn any other behaviour.
B - Earth & Space Science 11 - Today you'll have the block to work through the "Geologic Time Worksheet 2" using pages 84-90 in the Earth Science and the Environment text. This deals with both absolute and relative time dating principles. ToNext we'll start our look at Earth history, mass extinctions, and geologic time. We'll take a few notes down and look at extinction events (like the Permian mass extinction where 95% of all species on the planet died off within 1000 years and the K/T extinction 65 million years ago which wiped out 60% of all life on the planet).
C - Geography 12 - Today we're back in room 604 to finish our research on the Orting high school case study. Should the town of Orting, Washington, build a new high school to attract people to their community or not? What will the impact of increased population be on the tiny town that sits in the shadows of Mt. Rainier? The assignment is in your week 5 package and was posted on this blogsite yesterday. A reminder that you'll need to work on this project outside of class time because today is the last day for you to work on it in class. If you need help, however, feel free to ask in class over the next few days. Tomorrow we'll watch Mega Disasters: American Volcano (this is a good video that shows what happened at Mount Saint Helens and applies the same principles to Mount Rainier...hmmm I wonder if it is related to your project in any way)
Nestled away, in the back corner of G.P. Vanier, you'll find room 115 (we used to be 611). Lurking in the shadows of this room is Mr. Young...waiting to pounce on unsuspecting students and natter on about volcanoes, hail, psychopathy, criminal law defenses, cultural diffusion, media theories, crime, and urban models of city development. He loves his job in 115 and can't wait to work with you this year.
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