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3.00 Credits
3 credits The capstone builds upon previous skills: concept, needs analysis, budget, writing, shooting, editing, law, and promotion, while integrating research and criticism to determine media effects. Students will produce a specific project (audio, video, or film) that reflects their interests and pulls together all aspects of the production process. Prerequisites: COM 208; COM 302 or 303; COM 306
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3 credits This capstone course is designed to provide students with the theoretical approaches and practical skills associated with communication management and development. Students will serve as consultants and will assess the interpersonal, group, or organizational communication needs of a client and implement a program to address those needs. Prerequisites: COM 215, 315, 316
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3 credits The production seminar provides an in-depth opportunity to learn specialized production techniques. Topics will rotate and may include: remote audio recording, electronic field production, and advanced non-linear editing. Prerequisite: COM 208
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3 credits Students may intern in communication industries. Working approximately 15 hours a week under professional supervision, students learn how to apply their education to the everyday demands of professional positions. The course requires meetings with the faculty supervisor, reflection papers, and interaction and evaluation by the site supervisors. Prerequisites: junior or senior standing, 2.75 G.P.A., and recommendation of the Chair.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits A survey of the discipline, including its use of social sciences and law in understanding the phenomena of crime and justice and how the two relate. Explores criminal justice theory and processes, as well as the roles of ideology, politics, and mass media in shaping crime policy. Seeks to foster deeper perspectives on how justice-for individuals as well as for society-relates to intensely human experiences like freedom and suffering.
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3 credits An exploration of how social conflict and social organization affect human and societal well-being. Topics: mental health, personal safety, economic well-being, and intergroup relations in an industrial society and a developing nation.
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3 credits An exploration of major theories of deviance as they apply to behavior viewed as criminal or delinquent. Draws on a variety of academic perspectives to help understand and explain varied manifestations of crime and criminal behavior. Focus is on classical, positivist, and critical approaches, as well as the social policy implications of various theoretical frames of reference.
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3 credits A journey into the legal principles that underlie substantive criminal law in the United States, including limits on the power of government to define crimes. Consideration of general principles of criminal liability and criminal defenses and legal requirements for specific crimes, including homicide. Appellate court decisions are a major part of the expedition to facilitate understanding of how criminal law is applied in particular fact situations, how it evolves, and how it is influenced by socio-political factors.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits This elective course involves a study of why youth become delinquent and the social responses to such behavior, both historically and currently. Includes consideration of definitions, measurement, and theories of delinquency. Also examines the role of socio-demographic factors and juvenile court processing and juvenile corrections. Implications for policy and practice are emphasized.
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3 credits An analysis of police roles, including evolution, public perceptions, administration, culture, and police deviance. Social and political contexts are emphasized through incorporation of social science research related to policing and organizations. Encourages integration of concepts of police on a micro level (the police occupation) with a macro level (the context in which social action occurs), facilitating understanding of the complex relationships between a society and its police.
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