Research Guides: Social Issues for Criminal Justice Careers: Teaching Resources

Welcome

This page is focused on teaching college-aged students and educating people in your life - friends and family - on these issues. For information on teaching K-12 students, check out the education research guides.

There is a separate page dedicated to teaching children about race.

Syllabi and Reading Lists

The Colin Kapernick Syllabus
#Charleston Syllabus
Anna Julia Cooper Center (AJCC) List of Syllabi and Bibliographies
The AJCC is "a digital hub to continue advancing justice through intersectional scholarship and action."
The topics of their syllabi/bibliographies include welfare reform, black women's activism, and Charlottesville.
US Culture and #BlackLivesMatter
This syllabus was created by a British professor for a British university students.

Web Resources

Teaching Resources | Broward College Libraries
Teaching Resources about Jim Crow
"On the Books" is a project at University of North Carolina analyzing language in laws during the Jim Crow era using machine learning, text mining, and algorithms
1619 Project Lesson Plan
Classroom Resources from Learning for Justice
Classroom resources and lesson plans on social justice and anti-bias topics. Formerly titled Teaching Tolerance.