| New course | Undergraduate |
| First term offered : Summer 2011 | ||
| Course Prefix&Number | Descriptive Title | Credits/Hours |
| CJ-342 | Strategic Crime Analysis With GIS | 4 - 0 |
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Abbreviation for Class Schedule(20 spaces) StratCrimeAnalysis |
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Catalog Description: This course is the third in the Criminal Justice GIS sequence and will focus on specific applications for GIS in data-led policing. Students will use two software applications ArcGIS and CrimeStat III to analyze and visualize core theories in criminology. The class will use GIS to examine early theories of: Social Disorganization, Broken Windows, Environmental Criminology, and geographic profiling. The course will also focus on statistical approaches for crime analysis using GIS i.e hot spot analysis, kernel density estimation, distance analysis and spatial distribution. (Prerequisite CJ-341) |
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Course Goal and Objectives: Students will learn to systematically analyze data pertaining to police services and criminal activity to: 1) Identify trends and patterns. 2) Inform tactical and strategic operations. 3) Participate in problem solving for community policing programs. 4) Assess planned interventions involving crime and criminality. |
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Justification for adding the course (e.g. alignment with other institutions, program revision, etc.): This course is the third in a series of four courses that support the new Crime Analysis Certificate. |
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Faculty and facilities needed: Adjunct faculty The class will use the GIS lab on campus. |
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Brief Course outline: This course is designed as a hybrid lecture and laboratory class. We will meet face to face for 2 hours each week. The remaining course work - 2 hours plus the time needed to complete assignments - will be done outside of class. Expect to spend at least 6 hours a week out side of class to complete the assignments. You will be provided with a copy of the ArcEditor the GIS software used in the class and you will have access to the GIS lab on campus. |
| Step | Approver | Decision | Timestamp |
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| 1 - Department | Stephen Gibbons | Approved | October 15 2010 |
| 2 - Division | John Rector | Approved | October 15 2010 |
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Comments: In the Catalog Description, "Geographpic Profiling" should be capitalized. Also, in the last sentence should read: ...statistical approaches for crime analysis using GIS, i.e., hot spot analysis, kernal density estimation... (please correct the comma and period of the original version.) |
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| 3 - Division Curriculum | Shaun Huston | Approved | October 19 2010 |
| 5 - Curriculum Committee | Robert Monge | Approved | January 31 2011 |
| 6 - Faculty Senate | Gavin Keulks | Approved | February 22 2011 |
| 7 - Dean | Stephen Scheck | Approved | February 23 2011 |
| 8 - Provost | Kent Neely | Approved | February 24 2011 |
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Comments: The responsibility of budget for adjunct faculty will continue to rest with the Dean. Authorization for adjunct faculty hiring will rest with the Dean.
Kent Neely |
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| CJ 342 syllabus.doc | Download |