Title: Criminal Justice/Criminology Interests & Personal Background Presentation
Course: CJ601-01:Seminar in the Administration of Criminal Justice > Section: Identifying Areas of Interest & Expertise

Overview:

For this assignment, each student will be given up to 5-10 minutes to present on their specific interests within the field of criminal justice or criminology. Think about why you wanted to study criminal justice and criminology -- what about these fields is interesting to you that you want to know more about? What kinds of things can you conduct academic research on?

Think of this presentation as a super-brief TED Talk. After you present, we’ll have 5 minutes for clarifying questions to help you as you develop a research question. Prior to our class meeting during the week of September 9, 2024, be sure to share your slide (via Google Slides) in the URL submission for this assignment.

Requirements:
You will use a maximum of two slides. Feel free to organize/design the slide as you see fit. Make sure to include anything you think is pertinent, but do not fill the slide with text and do not use full sentences. When presenting, be sure to the include and discuss the following:
- Slide 1: Introduce yourself and provide a brief personal background of who you are/how you got here, feel free to add photos
- Slide 2: Discuss your general areas of interest. Talk about anything specific that you think would be an exciting research project

Grading:
You will be graded on whether or not the above items are addressed.