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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
(3 Hrs) A survey of quantitative and qualitative research methods in the social sciences. Topics include research design: measurement; sampling logic; experiments; surveys; data analysis; association and causation; ethics and the uses of research. Includes an introduction to the use of computers in data storage, retrieval, organization, and analysis. Fall, Spring Prerequisite: SOCI 101
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3.00 Credits
(3 Hrs) A survey of criminological theories exploring why some people are more likely to engage in crime than others and why crime rates vary over time and space and across social groups. Attendant policy issues will also be discussed. Fall, Spring Prerequisite: SOCI 101
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3.00 Credits
(3 Hrs) Examines the major theoretical perspectives in sociology. Emphasis on classical thinkers in the sociological tradition, including Marx, Weber, Durkheim, with time devoted to contemporary perspectives. Topics include modernization, industrialization, capitalism, imperialism, inequality, sciences, and religion. Fall, Spring Prerequisite: SOCI 101
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3.00 Credits
(3 Hrs) Views social problems as social constructs, and explores the creation of solutions. Examines how issues in society become defined as problems, the diverse responses to issues defined as social problems, and how groups and institutions create solutions. Fall, Spring Prerequisite: SOCI 101
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3.00 Credits
(3 Hrs) Study of the internal and external structures, functions, and activities of the criminal justice system. Primary focus on the United States criminal justice system, supplemented with a comparative study of criminal justice systems in other societies. Fall, Spring Prerequisite: SOCI 101
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3.00 Credits
(3 Hrs) Descriptive and inferential statistics. Measures of central tendency, sampling, hypothesis testing. Use of appropriate software for correlation and regression. Applications in the social and behavioral sciences (same as MATH 302). Fall, Spring Prerequisite: MATH 122
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3.00 Credits
(3 Hrs) Study of the perspectives of corrections, its relationship to other criminal justice agencies, various forms of sentencing and punishment, corrections administration and issues in the field. Fall, Spring Prerequisite: SOCI 101
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3.00 Credits
(3 Hrs) Nature and causes of inequality in human societies, emphasis on U.S. class structure within larger context of global economy. Theories of class and social stratification, forms of inequality and attempts at ameliorating inequality. Movements for social justice and formation of utopian communities as it relates to class struggle. Fall, Spring Prerequisite: SOCI 101
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3.00 Credits
(3 Hrs) Comparative study of the social construction of race in the U.S. and the world. Examines ethnic and racial relations in the US and around the world, and the effects of globalization and of increased personal interaction on these relations. Fall, Spring Prerequisite: SOCI 101
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3.00 Credits
(3 Hrs) Advanced study of the terms, concepts and debates necessary for analyzing criminal justice and criminology in the 21st century. Topics of discussion for this course will include, but are not limited to, new issues in law enforcement, ethical issues, terrorism, race and gender issues, crime and technology, trans- national criminal justice, and new or alternative frameworks and directions in criminal justice. Fall, Spring Prerequisite: SOCI 101
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