Paying for college:
| Title change | Description change | 400/500 course |
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| Course Prefix & Number | Descriptive Title | Credits/Hours |
| CJ-426 | Criminal Intelligence Analysis | 4 - 0 |
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| Course Prefix & Number | Descriptive Title | Credits/Hours |
| CJ-426/526 | Fundamentals of Crime Analysis | 4 - 0 |
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Abbreviation for Class Schedule(20 spaces) Fund Crime Analysis |
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Current Course Description: This course offers an introduction to one of the basic techniques of intelligence-led policing ¿criminal intelligence analysis using open source data. Using an actual problem in criminal justice (e.g. drug trafficking, white-collar crime, sexual exploration of children, etc.), students will learn how to collect, evaluate, correlate, and describe open source data. Then, using logical models that employ either deductive or inductive reasoning in the analysis of their initial data, students will learn how to develop a hypothesis that provides a tentative explanation concerning their assigned problem. Their tentative hypothesis will help to focus further data collection efforts. Finally, students will learn how to develop a conclusion, offer a prediction, or make a quantitative estimation based on their findings. |
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New Course Description: This course introduces students to the fundamental theories, techniques, and software used in the analysis of crime. Students will be introduced to a wide spectrum of information and techniques used in the analysis of crime. This includes theories of criminal behavior, critical thinking, applied research in crime analysis and problem solving, data integrity, qualitative analysis, interpreting crime data and statistics, descriptive and multivariate statistics, spreadsheets, temporal analysis, demographic analysis, inferential statistics, crime mapping, analytical charting, effective crime analysis writing, and effective presentations. (Prerequisite CJ-213) |
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Justification for changing the course (e.g. alignment with other institutions, program revision, etc.): The change reflects a more contemporary curriculum and expands it to the graduate level. |
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Students/Program affected: Criminal Justice |
| Step | Approver | Decision | Timestamp |
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| 1 - Department | Stephen Gibbons | Approved | October 04 2011 |
| 2 - Division | John Rector | Approved | October 07 2011 |
| 3 - Division Curriculum | Mark Henkels | Approved | October 27 2011 |
| 5 - Curriculum Committee | Thaddeus Shannon | Rejected | November 16 2011 |
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Comments: Proposal references CJ-426 Criminal Intelligence - no such class exists in the current catalog. This should be a new course proposal. The committee requests a new course proposal for CJ-426/526, including an illustrative syllabus and the criteria for distinguishing undergraduate credit from graduate credit. |
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| 5 - Graduate Committee | Marie LeJeune | Rejected | January 17 2012 |
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Comments: The graduate committee needs a new course proposal with a syllabus that clearly distinguishes graduate requirements for coursework, expectations, and assessments that differ from undergraduate requirements. |
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| 6 - Faculty Senate | Gavin Keulks | Rejected | March 13 2012 |
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Comments: Rejecting to clean up the portal; deans and above should do same. Proposal was resubmitted. |
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