Fall 2004 Newsletter

Better Late Than Never

In This Issue
(click below)
Dept. Move 
Pre-Registration
Caputo Book
Website Article

DEPARTMENT MOVES TO NEW QUARTERS AT 
405-7 COOPER STREET

405-7 Cooper Street from the campus side Our New Home (paint job coming)

Friday, October 29th was moving day for the Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Criminal Justice, as it settled into vastly-improved quarters in the combined buildings that used to be 405 and 407 Cooper Street. A porch and a new main entrance in the back–and landscaping yet to come–will bring the building into the main campus courtyard. Not ready yet but soon to come are a lounge and computer lab for students. We want our new home will be a welcoming and useful space for our students. The new building will remain a construction worksite for a while yet, but by the end of the semester everything should be completed.

Learning to navigate the building may take a little time, since we are on two floors and the layout is not linear. Check with our departmental secretary, Sherry Pisacano, just inside the door on the left if you need directions. Here is the new office roster:

Department Office Sherry Pisacano	Room 108
Myra Bluebond-Langner, Director Center for Children & Childhood Studies	Room 204
Gail Caputo	Room 115
Cati Coe	Room 214
Sheila Cosminsky	Room 203
Ted Goertzel	Room 110
Katrina Hazzard-Donald	Room 102
Drew Humphries, CJ Director	Room 116
Jon’a Meyer	Room 207
Michelle Meloy	Room 205
Jane Siegel	Room 109
Robert Wood, Dept. Chair	Room 211
Adjunct Faculty Offices	Rooms 103,104,206

We plan to have an open house either later in the semester or early in the spring semester. But feel free to come visit in the meantime! Remember, the entrance is from the campus side, not the Cooper Street side.

 

Spring 2005 Preregistration News and Advice
Read this before you register!

Preregistration for the Spring 2005 Semester begins November 1st. All students are strongly encouraged to see a departmental advisor (in our new building) in planning their schedule. Here are a few Spring 2005 preregistration tips (click here for the combined departmental spring schedule):
 The Online Syllabi web page at the departmental web site contains links to more than forty course web sites in the department, and offers a great way to explore course offerings for the Spring Semester. 
 All Sociology and CJ majors should take Methods and Techniques of Social Research (920:301) in the Spring semester if they have not already taken it. This course is a prerequisite for a number of upper-level courses, and knowledge of MicroCase and the basics of data analysis are increasingly expected in all upper-level courses. Note: the methods course also fulfills the second math requirement in the CCAS curriculum.
 Sociological Theory is offered only in the fall. Please plan accordingly. 
 It is generally a good idea to focus on required courses first, leaving electives until later. Sociology majors should take Introduction to Cultural Anthropology as early along as possible, as it is a prerequisite for other required courses.
 Co-sponsored with the Psychology Department, Sociology’s Service Learningcourse on “Bridging the Digital Divide in Camden” will continue to combine a Wednesday late afternoon seminar with 5-6 hours of fieldwork at Camden community centers and schools. 
 The Winterim schedule for courses in Sociology, Anthropology and Criminal Justice is available online. The tentative Summer Session 2005 schedule may be accessedhere. We are offering the largest selection of courses ever in both the Winterim and Summer sessions.
 Some of your questions about advising may be answered at our department’sAdvising FAQs web page

Dr. Caputo Publishes New Book on Intermediate Sanctions

Dr. Gail Caputo’s new book, Intermediate Sanctions in Corrections,published in its Crime and Criminal Justice book series by University of North Texas Press, is a path-breaking study of the new area of intermediate sanctions, which fall between imprisonment on the one hand and parole and probation on the other hand. Including such things as community service, boot camps, intensive supervision programs, home confinement and electronic monitoring, halfway houses, day reporting, fines, and restitution, intermediate sanctions provide a potentially more just and effective way of dealing with many legal infractions. Dr. Caputo’s previous research has focused on shoplifting, and she has been involved in both the conception and study of alternative sentencing programs.