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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
This course introduces students to developmental processes, social context, variance (diversity), and psychological/educational implications of the life stage called "adolescence." Outcome: Students will be expected to demonstrate an understanding the stages of normal adolescent development within a variety of cultural contexts as well as situations which compromise adolescent mental health and well being.
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3.00 Credits
No course description available.
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3.00 Credits
No course description available.
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3.00 Credits
A critical examination of theory and research on the role of culture in identity development. Particular emphasis will be given to such concepts as racism, sexism, ethnicity, culture, class prejudice, and ethnocentrism and how these help shape an individual's identity and society's conceptualization of culture. Outcome: Students will demonstrate ability to think critically about issues of race, class, culture, and gender, and to analyze how these issues play themselves out in our schools and school systems.
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0.00 - 99.00 Credits
No course description available.
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3.00 Credits
This course provides a broad overview of the criminal justice system, including definitions, processes and procedures from arrest through correction, roles of different levels and agencies of government, and how social control has evolved throughout history to its contemporary format and structure. Outcome: Students will be able to demonstrate an understanding of the structure and challenges facing the criminal justice system from an historical, interdisciplinary, and interrelationship perspective.
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3.00 Credits
This course provides a broad overview of the field of criminology, including the major theories from psychology, sociology, political science, economics and biology that attempt to explain why individuals engage in criminal behavior. Outcome: Students will be able to demonstrate an understanding of how the specific theories of criminal behavior can be compared and evaluated, how the theories evolved over time, and how they can be applied to criminal justice policy and practice.
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3.00 Credits
Major aspects of juvenile delinquency; causation and prevention theories; juvenile justice system components; emerging legal and philosophical issues; and the future of the juvenile justice system. Analyses of family, school, community, gender, and other factors as they affect delinquent behavior.
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3.00 Credits
This course provides a broad overview of the juvenile justice system, and how the role of the government in protecting abused and neglected youth and responding to juvenile delinquency has evolved throughout history to its contemporary format and structure. Outcome: Students will be able to demonstrate an understanding of the structure and challenges facing the juvenile justice system as it responds to delinquency and abuse/neglect from an historical, interdisciplinary, and interrelationship perspective, and how this differs from the adult (criminal) justice system.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines the evolution, nature, purpose, and structure of policing in American society with a special emphasis on municipal police operations. Outcome: Students will be able to demonstrate an understanding of changing role of police in modern society and articulate the role and challenges faced by police as it relates to the overall operation and goals of the criminal justice system.
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