My Reflection On Supreme Court Cases In Class

1. Throughout the term, several modes of instruction were employed (e.g., chapter assignments, lecture, video, group work). What would you have liked to have seen more of? Less of? Are there any other additional teaching methods that you would have found useful? The mode of instruction I enjoyed the most was lecture. I thought it was extremely helpful to go over the cases step by step and discuss them together in class. Going over the Supreme Court cases in class motivated me to do the reading beforehand and it was a fun way to learn about the different key terms in the book. It was also fun for me to get to see other people’s point of views on the cases versus how the court ruled. The one thing I think it would have been great to …show more content…
I now have a basic understanding of the fundamentals of criminal law, whereas before I knew essentially nothing. Instead of me trying to memorize all of the vocabulary for tests, I found that in this course I was truly trying to understand the information. I loved that the cases in the book were mainly California cases and that if they weren’t that you made sure we knew how the case would have been ruled in California. This course covered the basics of criminal law concepts and I will definitely take those concepts away with …show more content…
Cases about rape, molestation, child pornography, and prostitution made me feel really uncomfortable in class. It isn’t that I don’t find the cases interesting or important, but more that I don’t know how to handle them properly and tried to avoid them. Due to this, I am challenging myself next semester at SSU by taking a sex offending class. If I want to work in the criminal justice system or possibly go to law school, sex crimes are going to come up and they are something that I am going to have to deal with. I want to be able to openly discuss cases about these topics and know how to handle