A 3 credit hour course means that you need to work 9 hours a week on coursework. Given that, this course’s work breaks down as follows:
2 hours for reading the assigned chapter
4 hours for annotating the assigned chapter
1 hour for discussion post
2 hours for listening to the podcast and taking the associated quiz
For all semesters, assignments are due at 11:59 pm on Sundays.
Due to the shortened summer semester, the course will cover a selection of the textbook’s chapters. Each section has the same assignment types: Discussion Posts, Podcast Quizzes, and Annotations.
Week | Discussion Post | Podcast Quiz | Annotation |
1 | Chapter 1 | #27 Rachel Tuffin | Chapter 3 What Do the Police Do? from Harris and Buckey (2020) [available here] |
2 | Chapter 2 | #7 Geoff Alpert | Chapter 2 The History of Policing from Harris and Buckey (2020) [available here] |
3 | Chapter 3 | #23 Mo McGough | Chapters 11 Police Legitimacy and 12 Police Coercion from Reisig and Kane (2014) [available here] |
4 | Chapter 5 | #8 John Eck | Chapters 5 Problem-Oriented Policing: Principles, Practice, and Crime Prevention, and 6 Order Maintenance Policing from Reisig and Kane (2014) [available here] |
5 | Chapter 6 | #32 Jennifer Wood | Chapters 7 Community Policing and 8 Zero Tolerance and Policing from Reisig and Kane (2014) [available here] |
6 & 7 | Police and the Community II | #30 Rod Brunson | Chapters 9 Policing Vulnerable Populations and 17 Racial Profiling from Reisig and Kane (2014) [available here] |
8 | Police Use of Force | #26 Hans Menos | Chapters 9 Police Brutality; 15 Use of Deadly Force; and 17 Vehicular Police Pursuits from Chambliss (2011) [available here] |
9 | Police Misconduct | #29 Bill Walsh | Chapters 10 Police Corruption and the Code of Silence and 12 Police Strikes and Blue Flu from Chambliss (2011) [available here] |