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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
The field experience is designed to provide the student an opportunity to integrate and reconcile theoretical concepts and principles learned in other social science and criminal justice courses and apply them in work environments within the criminal justice profession. The field experience initiates the beginning of the lifelong professional learning process through which the student must learn to navigate.
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4.00 Credits
Provides criminal justice professionals with the understanding of a scientific, analytical approach to knowledge building. Examines the concepts of theory development, conceptualization and hypothesis formulation across criminal justice fields of practice. The content includes research design, sampling, instrumentation, methods of data collection and analysis as well as descriptive inferential statistics and critical analysis of empirical research. The student will develop an original research project.
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3.00 Credits
The Field Experience Seminar is designed to assist the student in processing the experiences one has at the field experience assignment. The seminar is taken concurrently with the field experience and provides an opportunity to integrate and reconcile theoretical concepts and principles learned in other social science and criminal justice courses and apply them in working within the criminal justice profession. As students enter the field as interns their concerns will be more on practical issues. As a result, the course is designed as an open discussion forum allowing the professor and students to examine practical issues and discuss their integration with classroom concepts. The integration of these concepts is the central purpose of the course. Students will be asked to link professional events to theoretical concepts and will be asked to examine these events within the context of professional and personal ethics.
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3.00 Credits
The Cedar Crest curriculum has been carefully designed to produce female graduates who are well prepared to assume leadership roles in the criminal justice profession. This capstone course for the criminal justice major is the culmination of that experience and is intended to allow each student to develop a greater understanding of the challenges faced by the women who choose to pursue these positions. During the course of the curriculum, careful attention is given to developing the student’s critical thinking and problem solving skills in an attempt to better prepare them for a role in criminal justice management. A student’s preparation would be incomplete, however, without an understanding of the challenges and barriers faced by women in this profession. To accomplish this goal, students will be required to produce a research paper examining the unique challenges faced by women who attempt to pursue management positions in any given sector of the profession. Each student will be asked to choose a specific occupation of interest and conduct a literature review examining the role women assume in that profession and the obstacles they must overcome to excel. Additionally, each student must perform field research designed to validate the literature review by discussing with professionals the challenges they have faced in their pursuit of managerial responsibility. By requiring such a project, Cedar Crest strives to produce professionals that understand the challenges posed by such a demanding profession, and by doing so, will better prepare them to assume higher levels of responsibility.
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3.00 Credits
Introduction to Communication aims to introduce students to the field of Communication and to strengthen students’ communication skills for a variety of situations. The course accomplishes this through study and training in the basic principles and theories of communication and through practice in intrapersonal, interpersonal, small-group, and public communication. The ability to communicate effectively has become increasingly important in helping to determine a person’s success as a responsible citizen, a productive professional, and an understanding human being. Everyone can improve and develop more confidence in the ability to communicate effectively by understanding the communicative process, training in basic communication principles, and experiencing varied communication situations.
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3.00 Credits
An introduction to the study of film forms and film contents. It provides an historical overview of the development of film from its international premiere in 1906 by the Lumiere Brothers to the diversity of today’s cinema.
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3.00 Credits
Introduction to a range of approaches and theories that address the concept, character, organization, history and content of mass communication. Students have the opportunity to analyze the practices and products of mass communication in class and to explore the relation between media, reality and knowledge.
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3.00 Credits
An introduction to the theory and practice of journalism. Students analyze, critique and write stories for print and electronic journalism. Contemporary issues in journalism are discussed and debated. Students also learn techniques of newsgathering within a socially responsible and ethical framework.
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3.00 Credits
Introduces students to ways to think about and research issues in communication. It provides students with foundational tools to do research in the field, focusing heavily on qualitative approaches. Methods include semiotics, content analysis, narrative and genre analysis, ideological and feminist analysis, among others. Basic quantitative approaches such as surveys and focus groups are also covered. The course helps students to do improve their research skills for all communication classes, and also prepares them for more in-depth projects later in their course of study, such as the Senior Capstone project. Prerequisite: CST 110.
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1.00 - 3.00 Credits
Includes all staffing positions on "The Crestiad": editor-in-chief, managing editor, layout/copy editors, reporters, photographers and columnists. Previous experience on school newspapers or CST 150 recommended.
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