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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: upper-division standing or permission of the dean. Examines and compares the legal and criminal justice systems of different nations. Focuses on historical, political and social factors, and explains their influence on legal institutions and systems of justice. Discusses points of divergence between other societies and the United States in perceived causes of crime and differing approaches to rehabilitation and crime prevention. Countries representing Europe, Africa, Asia and Latin America are included. (F, Sp, Su)
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: upper-division standing or permission of the dean. Covers the development, proliferation, institutionalization, and goals of the components of the criminal justice system and their administration. The course will also cover the ethics of managing justice and punishment. (F, Sp, Su)
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: upper-division standing or permission of the dean. Students will be introduced to the sociological study of deviance and social control, with a focus on the social construction of deviant behavior and the relative nature of such definitions through time and across cultures. Current research on selected types of deviance will be reviewed to understand the individual and structural dimension of behavior as well as implications for policy and social control. (F, Sp, Su)
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: upper-division standing or permission of the dean. An overview of theories of criminal behavior as well as current issues in criminology. Students will be exposed to biological, sociological and psychological theories of crime, as well as opposing viewpoints on important topics in criminology. (F, Sp, Su)
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: 1213, 1313, 1413, or equivalent. This course helps prepare the student for the senior capstone study in depth paper. Content will focus on upper division level writing, research and argumentation. (F, Sp, Su)
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0.00 Credits
1 to 3 hours. Prerequisite: admission to Honors' Program. May be repeated; maximum credit six hours. Consists of topics designated by the instructor in keeping with the student's major. The topics will cover materials not usually presented in the regular courses. (Irreg.)
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: upper-division standing or permission of the dean. An introduction to the basics of social statistics, the methods and techniques which sociologists, policy analysts, and other social scientists use to summarize numeric data obtained from censuses, surveys, and experiments. (F, Sp, Su)
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0.00 Credits
1 to 3 hours. Prerequisite: admission to Honors' Program. May be repeated; maximum credit six hours. Provides an opportunity for the gifted Honors' candidate to work on a special project under the guidance of a professor in the student's field. (Irreg.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: 1213, 2213, or equivalent. Examines the Bible as a work of literature, approaching it without concern for the doctrines of any particular religion. The aim of the course is to make students biblically familiar with both the Old and New Testaments. (F, Sp, Su)
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: 1213, 2213, or equivalent. Offers students ways of exloring their own or their family's past with larger cultural and historical contexts. (F, Sp, Su)
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