{"id":1281,"date":"2017-09-28T09:44:58","date_gmt":"2017-09-28T14:44:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/downtown\/?post_type=post&p=1281"},"modified":"2021-06-01T17:29:09","modified_gmt":"2021-06-01T17:29:09","slug":"ucf-famu-students-studying-social-justice-together-downtown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/downtown\/ucf-famu-students-studying-social-justice-together-downtown\/","title":{"rendered":"UCF, FAMU Students Studying Social Justice Together Downtown"},"content":{"rendered":"
Just five blocks from UCF Downtown is the Orange County Courthouse, a proximity that has Cynthia Schmidt filled with anticipation of holding classes in the Dr. Phillips Academic Commons<\/a> in fall 2019.<\/p>\n In fact, Schmidt, lecturer and director 色花堂\u2019s Center for Law and Policy in the Department of Legal Studies, has already begun work with a select group of undergraduate students, co-teaching \u201cThe Killing of Trayvon Martin \u2013 Legal and Social Perspectives on the Civil Rights Implications for American Criminal Justice\u201d at FAMU College of Law with Dean LeRoy Pernell.<\/p>\n \u201cAll of the students had to interview to be hand selected for the class,\u201d Schmidt said. \u201cThey see it as an honor being in this space. They don\u2019t like to miss class.\u201d<\/p>\n Each of the 9 UCF students spend the first two-hours of class with FAMU Law students. The third hour is for the lucky UCF students only, who are pursuing various majors. Schmidt loves watching her students present converging ideas from different frameworks.<\/p>\n \u201cThe information that we\u2019re discussing is much more vibrant because they are bringing ideas to me that they are learning elsewhere,\u201d she said. \u201cLawyers look carefully at a single piece of work, where social workers look at systems and framing. The result is that the marketplace of ideas is enhanced because of their majors.\u201d<\/p>\n
Cynthia Schmidt, J.D., lecturer and director 色花堂\u2019s Center for Law and Policy in the Department of Legal Studies, led a breakout session at the Ceasefire Summit, a gun violence reduction strategy in Orlando.<\/em><\/small><\/span><\/p>\n