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Hello all!
Seeing that you were all so very wonderful in your first tutorial and also willing to place your faith in us by not dropping the course, the all-merciful Bench has decided to commute your sentence of 13 individual journal entries to 8 individual journal entries.
While the Bench had thought it a fair sentence previously, on reviewing the fact that all of you had exhibited good behaviour and in light of other mitigating factors (e.g. some of you already submitting journal drafts), we now believe that a reduced sentence of 8 individual journal entries would better benefit the community.
The new requirements are as follows,
~1~
You MAY choose 6 weeks between Week 2 and Week 12
to write your journal entries about.
~2~
You SHALL complete journal entries for Week 1 and Week 13.
These would be the first and final entry.
~3~
You SHALL submit a minimum of 2 journal entries for the reading week
mid-semester assessment.
~4~
You SHALL submit a total of 8 journal entries by the deadline of
5:00 pm on Friday, April the 24th, 2009.
Here’s an exercise in law and a taste of criminal justice—try to negotiate the differences between the words “may” and “shall” in a legal context (it’s not as simple as you may think).
After this quick exercise, it is hoped that you can appreciate how precisely the law must be crafted in legal systems that adhere to due process and why every word matters in a legal document (imagine how much stress our lawyer friends must go through daily as they pick apart those evil words!). Indeed, if you ever wondered why sometimes legal decisions may seem “unjust” or “stupid”, you may want to ask yourself first: what does the law actually say on the issue and what does “upholding the law” actually mean?
Right then, back to work. I hope that makes sense and that the lawyers in the course won’t execute me for writing this travesty of a post! I tried to frame this using random legal lingo because, well, I thought it would be nice to “get to know” some of its jargon, LOL.
Totsiens, friends! (no, totsiens is not legal jargon but it is a way of saying “see ya!” I used “ciao” too much last semester, so I thought I’d spice things up a little by using a different language, LOL!)
Hello friends, in this post you will find three items of interest. To help in making sense of it all, I will go through each one briefly (they are actually quite self-explanatory, but JUST IN CASE… LOL)
1. Tutorial Outline (click here to download)
This is basically the tutorial outline you got in lecture today—unless you weren’t in lecture today… Then you may want to download this to orientate you to what to expect in the tutorials. Don’t worry, they are NOT as crazy as they look.
2. Tutorial 1 Worksheet (click here to download)
This is a worksheet for the first tutorial. Take a look at the questions but don’t think too hard about them because, well, you really can’t answer it without a group… LOL. Either way, this is just so you know what to expect in part of Tutorial 1.
3. Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch’s on Journalism at HKU libraries (click here to view)
The video you watched today is available from the HKU library catalogue. Unfortunately, some quick hands have snatched it and it is now due sometime in February* (@__@)
Right then, I have to get out of here! Later all!
*Thanks to Jenny for spotting this mistake—I initially wrote that Outfoxed was due back in October, LOL. My humble apologies for that error and sincere thanks for the correction! m(_ _)m
In case you haven’t got the hardcopy from last lecture (or, you lost it), just download it for reference. It list out all the topics, readings as well as the questions for your individual journal.
SOCI0067 Crime and the Media 