Author: Satenik Margaryan

Welcome to the last week of classes and exam week!

Welcome to the last week of classes and exam week!

Satenik Margaryan

Dear students,

We are just a day away from the end of Fall 2022! Tomorrow, we will finish with the student presentations.

Please make sure you are finishing up all your Steps and the paper. I am here to help you if you need any help. I am just an email away after tomorrow. I have office hours today, from 1 pm to 2 pm, and tomorrow from 9:45 am to 10:45 am.

See you all tomorrow at 2:00 pm.

Welcome to Week 13th!

Welcome to Week 13th!

Satenik Margaryan

Dear students,

We are in the penultimate week of the Fall 2022 semester! This is the last full week of classes.

This week you will be presenting the results of your work throughout the semester. Don’t forget to attach your files here before tomorrow or Thursday:

Paper Presentation

I will post the questions for your Final Exam (due date December 18th) soon. It is a cumulative exam and it will cover the entire semester.

You will now be a full-steam ahead on your final paper. If you have missing steps, now is the time to work on finishing them. December 18th is the last deadline to submit any missing work.

If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to contact me. I have office hours today and on Tuesday and Thursday. Stop by if you have questions about the past steps or anything else.

https://bmcc-cuny.zoom.us/j/3772687009

I can also meet with you via ZOOM by appointment.

WEEK 13 (December 5th to December 11th): Presentations!

WEEK 13 (December 5th to December 11th): Presentations!

Satenik Margaryan

This week, as we approach the end of the semester, I would like to invite you to present your findings from the semester-long project. Essentially, you will present what you learned about your neighborhood. Be ready to show slides (5-6).

Here are some pointers on how to do your presentation well:

9 Tips to Improve Your Public Speaking Skills

You may attach your presentations in the comments here:

Paper Presentation
Submit your paper

Draft of the Final Paper

Satenik Margaryan

Submit your paper here to be reviewed by me as a draft. There is no grade for this submission. Once you receive my feedback, you may re-submit as a final paper.

DUE DATE: December 8th, 11:59 pm

WORD COUNT: 2000‐2500 words

Include the word count at the top of your first page

 REQUIRED REFERENCES:

  • At a minimum of 7 references in total
  • 5 peer-reviewed academic publications or more other works such as newspaper articles, government reports, census data reporting
  • APA reference format
  • Reference page

PAPER

The audience for your paper: To help you write this paper, imagine that you are sharing this information with a new transplant or tourist to NYC who seeks to learn more about the criminal justice issues facing each borough and the local neighborhoods. What would type of info would you share with this person?

Your final paper should cover the following points:

  • Make certain that your paper has a  title!
  • Introduction/background info 
  • A general overview of the problem and background info on the issue and your neighborhood. 
  • Literature review: Here, you should use the articles from your annotated bib. What have the experts found to be true regarding your research question/topic area?
  • Neighborhood description
  • Narrative description of the neighborhood
  • Statistical data about the extent of the problem
  • Conclusion/Recommendations: Do you have any recommendations on how to best address the problem or issue you presented in your research question?
  • Reference page 

Paper length: at least 2,000 words, double‐spaced

Font size 11‐12

Use page numbers

Tip: The paper should have headers and sub-headers to distinctly separate different sections of the paper. These headers help to guide the reader on the topics to be presented next. When creating headers, think about these questions:

  • What is this paragraph about?
  • What is the most important part about this paragraph?
  • What do I want the reader to take from this paragraph? 

For example, for your literature review section, you may want to create a title that relates to the peer‐reviewed articles you reviewed, such as:

Header: Gangs and gun violence

Subheader: Gun violence in Brooklyn

WEEK 12 (November 29th to December 4th): Solutions to Community-Driven Disorder

Satenik Margaryan

Welcome to week 12!

Overview

This week we will focus on how to overcome community disorder. We will explore two research articles dealing with this topic. They offer two different solutions, and we will discuss how we can see our communities moving forward.

To read:

Solutions to Community-Driven Disorder by Pizarro, J. M., Sadler, R. C., Goldstick, J., Turchan, B., McGarrell, E. F., & Zimmerman, M. A. (2020). Community-driven disorder reduction: Crime prevention through a clean and green initiative in a legacy city.
Urban Studies.

Read the article here:

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*Somers, Meredith (2019). How a hybrid housing policy is opening doors to good neighborhoods. MIT https://mitsloan.mit.edu/ideas-made-to-matter/how-a-hybrid-housing-policy-opening-doors-to-good-neighborhoods
Creating Moves to Opportunity: Experimental Evidence on Barriers to Neighborhood Choice by Raj Chetty, Nathaniel Hendren, Peter Bergman, Stefanie DeLuca, Lawrence Katz, Christopher Palmer NBER WORKING PAPER NO. 26164 AUGUST 2019: https://opportunityinsights.org/paper/cmto/

To watch:

A little green space can make a big difference in blighted city neighborhoods, according to recent research from Philadelphia. It found that turning vacant lots into mini-parks reduced crime and cut rates of depression, especially in low-income areas. VOA’s Steve Baragona went to have a look.

Explore what makes trees a vital part of cities, and how urban spaces throughout history have embraced the importance of trees. — By 2050, it’s estimated that over 65% of the world will be living in cities. We may think of nature as being unconnected to our urban spaces, but trees have always been an essential part of successful cities. Humanity has been uncovering these arboreal benefits since the creation of our first cities thousands of years ago. So what makes trees so important to a city’s survival? Stefan Al explains.
When economist Raj Chetty and his Harvard colleagues consulted a “gold mine” of big data—many years of anonymized tax, census, and Social Security records—they realized they had discovered a way to trace the effect of neighborhoods on the life outcomes of children who grew up in them. Now they’re using their findings to create better opportunities for those in greatest need. This short film by Redglass Pictures is part of the series “From Research to Reward,” a collection of videos and articles examining the impact of scientific research on our lives. Learn more at www.nasonline.org/r2r.

Extra-Credit

Satenik Margaryan

Extra-Credit

Participate in this study:

Link to Our Online Research Study: https://gccuny.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_b77lDWq6Q2YbpDU

This study is available fully online and can be finished in less than 1 hour. (Generally, 20 – 40 minutes). 

1) This study is fully anonymous — no one will EVER know they have taken this study or know their private answers; and 

2) To get credit for the study, students must put in their full name, their professor’s full name, and their course information at the end of the study. All names will be deleted after the semester is over to ensure COMPLETE privacy.