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Preregistration for Spring 2002 Begins October 29th
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The
Spring 2002 schedule includes several courses not regularly offered.
Visiting Prof. Sheryl Van Horne will introduce courses in Victimology
and Drug Policy, and will offer again her Criminal Justice Planning
course. Dr. Kathleen Asbury will be teaching Sexuality and Society,
and Dr. Alexander Christensen will offer Physical Anthropology. Monika
Wood will again offer her Sociology
of Work and Careers course, which combines analysis of the changing
nature of work with collaboration with the Career Center to help students
plan their careers and develop important job-related skills. This
is a particularly valuable course for graduating seniors. An
unusually-full summer schedule is planned for 2002. The tentative
schedule may be accessed by clicking here.
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Dr.
Omaha Boy Offers Course
& Study Trip on American Indians Teaching
Excellence Center Director Dr. Nancy Omaha Boy will offer a Spring course
in North American Indians and then a Study Tour on the Art and Culture
of Northwest Indians in May. Students taking both the course and the
study tour may write a combined paper for both. These pictures were
taken by Dr. Omaha Boy
on the tour in 2000. Contact her directly for further information.
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Service
Learning Course Serving Camden The Department's Service Learning
course, offered jointly with the Psychology Department, will enter its
third semester in the spring. The course, led by Anne Harkins, Technology
Coordinator at the Molina School, focuses on "Bridging the
Digital Divide in Camden" and meets each Wednesday afternoon
as a seminar, with each student performing approximately five hours
of service work at schools or community centers in the city. Service
Learning offers a chance to contribute to the Camden community while
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Criminal Justice Master's Program Set to Begin in Fall 2002 Starting
in September 2002, the Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Criminal
Justice will include for the first time a graduate program: a M.A.
program in Criminal Justice. The program is being instituted in close
cooperation with the Department of Public Policy and Administration,
and will have a strong administrative skills focus. During the current
academic year, the Department expects to hire two additional criminal
justice faculty members to help get the program underway. For further
details, see Dr. Humphries, who will be the graduate program director.
In related news, student Steven M. Carter received this year a John
Norcross Memorial Scholarship to pursue his undergraduate major in
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Is There Something About South Jersey? With
assistance from recent sociology graduate Jason Leonardis, Professor
Ted Goertzel has created an online presentation called "There's
Something About South Jersey." The presentation presents findings
from a survey of South Jersey residents as well as a broader discussion
of visions and options. It includes data on what people like and don't
like about South Jersey, and presents a set of "controversial theses"
intended to stimulate thought and discussion. The presentation may be
accessed at http://crab.rutgers.edu/~goertzel/sj.htm.
Check it out! |
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Camden Campaign for Children's Literacy Kicks Off Literacy Drive Sponsored by Center
for Children and Childhood Studies, whose director is Anthropology
Professor Myra Bluebond-Langner, the Campaign
for Children's Literacy held a highly-successful kick-off event
on Saturday, September 15th. Former Rutgers-Camden Sociology major
and MSW Angela Connor played a major role in organizing the event.
In addition to performances by Queen Nur and Sister Mafalda and the
Kuumba Performers, over 1800 books were given to children from over
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Afghanistan in Retrospect With Afghanistan
so much on everyone's mind but so little understood, Sociology Chair
and Professor Robert Wood has dusted off some old slides he took when
he spent several weeks there when he was a graduate student at the University
of California, Berkeley. The result is Afghanistan
in 1973: Memories and Pictures in Retrospect, a website providing
a brief historical context and pictures of the country at the time.
Dr. Wood emphasizes the importance of understanding that the mujaheddin
rebellion emerged originally in response to efforts by a series
of left-wing governments in the later 1970s to bring land reform and
expanded rights to women in the countryside. Unfortunately the heavy-handed
approach of these regimes provoked widespread uprisings, and it was
in these circumstances that the beleagured government made the fateful
and disastrous decision to invite in Soviet troops. U.S. support of
the mujaheddin in this Cold War context paved the way for the
ultimate victory of the Taliban and the continuing tragedy that has
engulfed the country.
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Web-Enhanced
Curriculum Continues to Expand The department continues to develop the wide variety of resources available at its website, and has plans for a substantial further expansion in the spring semester. The website is organized around its Departmental Homepage and its Web-Enhanced Curriculum Homepage. Here's a list of what's currently available:
Students are strongly encouraged
to familiarize themselves with the policies and resources at this site.
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