Paying for college:
| New course | 400/500 course |
| First term offered : Winter 2012 | ||
| Course Prefix&Number | Descriptive Title | Credits/Hours |
| CJ-426/526 | Fundamentals of Crime Analysis | 4 - |
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Abbreviation for Class Schedule(20 spaces) Fund Crime Analysis |
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Catalog Description: This course introduces students to the fundamental theories, techniques, and software used in the analysis of crime. This includes the terms and concepts of crime analysis, how crime analysis is used in America¿s police agencies, how to perform basic analytical techniques on raw data, how tactics and strategies to reduce crime are developed and employed, and the tools, techniques, and products of crime analysis. (Prerequisite CJ-213) |
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Course Goal and Objectives: By the end of the course, students will be able to: ¿ Understand the terms and concepts of crime analysis ¿ Describe how crime analysis is used in America¿s police agencies ¿ Perform basic analytical techniques on raw data ¿ Suggest effective tactics and strategies to reduce crime ¿ Describe the tools, techniques, and products of crime analysis |
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Justification for adding the course (e.g. alignment with other institutions, program revision, etc.): This course is the first in a series of three courses that will introduce students to the field of crime analysis, which is an emerging technical discipline that has come to inform and direct criminal justice policy. |
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Faculty and facilities needed: None |
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Brief Course outline: See attached syllabus |
| Step | Approver | Decision | Timestamp |
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| 1 - Department | Stephen Gibbons | Approved | February 21 2012 |
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Comments: Edit the teaching philosophy as follows (there were a couple of typos):
Additional readings and group discussion, with particular emphasis placed on developing a more sophisticated understanding of the criminal justice system and criminological theory, including the arguments that define the field and the varieties of methodologies used in this field of inquiry.
Additional writing assignments, including critical analysis of sources and either an expanded course research paper or an additional paper above the requirements for the 400-level. This generally entails a well-presented (15-to -20 page) research paper suitable for publication in a professional or peer- reviewed journal.
Criminal justice faculty will assess graduate student discussion and writing at a higher level of sophistication, argument, evidence, and conclusions than done at the undergraduate level.
Where appropriate, graduate students will have the opportunity to mentor undergraduate students in slash courses by leading discussion, teaching a class, or working with them on assignments.
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| 2 - Division | John Rector | Approved | February 23 2012 |
| 3 - Division Curriculum | Mark Henkels | Approved | February 26 2012 |
| 5 - Curriculum Committee | Thaddeus Shannon | Approved | March 20 2012 |
| 5 - Graduate Committee | Marie LeJeune | Approved | February 29 2012 |
| 6 - Faculty Senate | Gavin Keulks | Approved | March 20 2012 |
| 7 - Dean | Stephen Scheck | Approved | March 22 2012 |
| 8 - Provost | Kent Neely | Approved | March 22 2012 |
| CJ-426 526 Syllabus.docx | Download | |
| Teaching Philosophy of 400500 CJ Courses.docx | Download |
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