56:202:500Policy Analysis in Criminal Justice (3) The development, implementation, and evaluation of criminal justice policy. Ethics of law enforcement, court processes, and corrections. Evaluation of research on topics such as race, class, and gender disparities; capital punishment; gun control; drug policy; pornography; and gambling. Entry level course, required for all entering students |
56:202:501Foundations of Policy Analysis (3) The logic of action, decision making, and belief; epistemological issues underlying scientific and policy research; causality, probability, statistics, and public policy; the role of problem definition, description, theory, model building, explanation, and prediction in policy research and decision making. Reviews major substantive theories of public choice and public policy making and critically examines them from a logical and theoretical perspective. |
56:202:503Law and Public Policy (3) The place of law in the formulation, articulation, and enforcement of public policy; legal sources, such as constitutions, statutes, cases, administrative rulings, and agency practices; federal, state, and local sources and materials examined for policy inconsistencies, contradictions, and overlap; the effectiveness of fees, taxes, licenses, labeling, injunctions, and other legal sanctions. |
56:202:505Organizational Behavior (3) Examines organizational behavior-or individuals and group/ teams-and the organization context in which that behavior takes place. Organization theories as well as behavior theories and approaches discussed, including seminal historical works and more current treatments. |
56:202:513Criminology (3) Explanation of crime and delinquency in American society. Topics include deterrence theory, biological explanations for crime, sociological theories, and conflict-based theories. Emphasis on social causes of crime. |
56:202:515Introduction to Public Budgeting and Finance (3) Combines readings with the development of a budget for a hypothetical city to demonstrate budget formats, the politics of budgeting, and methods of projecting expenditures and revenues. Administration and criteria for selecting taxes. |
56:202:525Public Management (3) Contemporary management approaches, techniques, and skills for managing various kinds of public organizations. Decision making, administrative leadership, planning, implementation, evaluation, ethics, and budgeting are key topics. |
56:202:536Public Information Systems (3) Management-oriented computer methods including personal productivity systems and office automation; database management; and the analysis, supervision, and coordination of the management information systems department within the larger organizational culture. |
56:202:540Victimology (3) Study of the role and treatment of victims in the criminal justice system. Emphasis on risk factors and impact of crime on victims. |
56:202:541Studies of Cultural Diversity (3) Either in historical or contemporary perspective, treatment of issues pertaining to gender, race, or ethnicity within western societies or examination of various developments in one or more nonwestern societies. |
56:202:553Financial Management of Public Programs (3) Examines budgetary processes, municipal bonds, cash management, and intergovernmental fiscal relations as they apply to financial management of public programs. Topics include cost-benefit, cost-revenue, and cost-effectiveness analyses, as well as contemporary issues such as privatization and liability insurance. Prerequisite: 56:202:515. |
56:202:557Human Resource Management (3) The relationship between employers, employees, and their labor relations organizations in government, health and human services, and the nonprofit sector; leadership and direction of employees; impact of collective negotiations on critical issues of public policy; civil service organizations. |
56:202:558Executive Leadership and Communication Skills (3) Strengths and limitations of various leadership theories. Awareness of personal learning, leadership, influence, and communication styles. Develops leadership skills through interpersonal exercises and through course projects involving current managerial and political issues. Communication skills involving writing, speaking, meetings, media relations, and strategic planning emphasized. |
56:202:570Labor-Management Relations (3) Analysis of the structure and development of labor-management relationships in the United States and abroad, focusing on both private industry and governmental organizations. Explores history and the surrounding law while focusing on the negotiation and administration of collective bargaining agreements, related micro- and macroeconomic problems, and issues that accompany the growth of the nonunion sector in both private and public sectors. |
56:202:571American Legal History I (3) Survey of developments in American law from the colonial era through Reconstruction; special emphasis on the role of social, economic, and political development in fostering legal change. Topics include historical origins of American constitutionalism; tensions between judicial authority and popular rule; the law`s role in American economic development; slavery, race, and law; status of women in American legal history; and history of American criminal justice. |
56:202:572American Legal History II (3) Overview of major themes dominating American legal history from 1870 to the present, including changing standards of legal education; admission to the bar and the practice of law; legal responses to social, technological, and economic changes; jurisprudential experiments such as Progressive-Pragmatism and American Legal Realism; and race relations. |
*56:202:590Race and American Law (3) Examines the role that law has played within the systematic subordination of racial minorities and in the formal elimination of racial badges of servitude. Materials are designed to provoke class discussion at both the scholarly level and at the more pragmatic level that students should find useful as they attempt to fashion legal remedies for future clients who, having won the eradication of overt racial barriers, seeks the substance of equal opportunity. Topics to be examined include voting rights, educational equality, contemporary miscegenation problems, employment discrimination, affirmative action, race and freedom of expression, race and intersectionality (with other differences such as class and gender), and race and reproductive rights. All of these subjects are studied in an historical context designed to aid understanding of current racial developments and its identification of continuing problems of race. |
56:202:600Research Methods in Criminal Justice (3) Foundation in research methods commonly used in criminal justice and the social sciences. Includes methods of inquiry, causality, sampling, research instrument design, coding, and ethics and research procedures, e.g., survey research, experiments, fieldwork, and interview studies. Students design a research project, write a research proposal, and plan data collection for analyses, which are undertaken in 56:202:601. |
56:202:601Data Analysis in Criminal Justice (3) Data analysis procedures and techniques needed for completion of the project designed in 56:202:600. Includes methods of testing hypotheses and various statistical techniques, with an emphasis on how to choose and execute appropriate procedures and interpret results utilizing statistical software. Students analyze data and draft results in preparation for submitting the completed paper for approval to a faculty review committee. Prerequisite: 56:202:600. |
*56:202:624Sex Discrimination and the Law (3) Examines the law as a cause of and as a remedy for sex discrimination. Considers problems of sex discrimination in historical, economic, sociological, and political contexts. Topics include constitutional law, reproduction and sexuality, employment, family and property laws, and criminal law. Considers litigation and legislation as tools for the elimination of sex discrimination, with emphasis on lawyering skills and strategic concerns. |
*56:202:631Employment Law (3) A survey of common law, statutory and constitutional regulation of the employment relationship in both the private and public sectors, with primary attention to issues not covered in courses on collective bargaining or employment discrimination. Considerable time is devoted to the study of wrongful discharge law. Other topics covered may include job applicant screening process, restrictions on employee speech and conduct, employee privacy rights, statutory wages and family leave policies, employer-provided fringe benefits (e.g., health insurance and retirement benefits), workers` compensation laws, plant closing laws, employee stock ownership plans, and government provided employee benefits (e.g., unemployment insurance and social security). |
*56:202:655Criminal Procedure: The Investigatory Process (3) An in-depth study of the investigatory stage of the criminal process. Focuses on the power of the courts to shape criminal procedure and their capacity to control police investigatory practices, such as arrest, search and seizure, interrogation, and identification, through the 4th, 5th, 6th, and 14th amendments. Discusses the role of counsel in this process and explores competing theories of criminal procedure and related systems of social control, such as the juvenile justice system and civil commitment of the mentally ill. |
*56:202:691Evidence (3) A study of the law and rules (with particular attention given to the Federal Rules of Evidence) governing the proof of disputed issues of fact in criminal and civil trials, including the functions of judge and jury; relevancy; real and demonstrative evidence, authentication and production of writings; the examination, competency, and privileges of witnesses; hearsay; impeachment; and burden of proof, presumptions, and judicial notice. |
*56:202:695Labor Law (3) A study of the common law's response to employees' efforts to organize
and take concerted action to improve their wages, hours, and other
employment conditions. The course traces the evolution of a national
labor policy in this country through the New Deal and later federal
legislation. Focus of the protections afforded by the federal law to
union organizational activities; the procedures established by federal
law for the selection of representatives for the purposes of collective
bargaining; federal regulation of concerted economic activity by
unions, such as strikes, boycotts, and picketing, and of countervailing
employer action; and the extent of federal preemption of state
regulation in the labor area. |
56:202:800Matriculation Continued (0)
Continued registration may be accomplished by enrolling for at least 3 credits in standard course offerings or by enrolling in this course for 0 credits. Students who are using university facilities and faculty time are expected to enroll for the appropriate credits. |
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