Fall 2023 COURSES
Listed below are all the undergraduate and graduate courses the department is offering in Fall 2023.
ANTHROPOLOGY (CAMDEN CAMPUS)
50:070:101 Introduction to Cultural Anthropology (3) Introduces the student to the study of culture. Topics include the nature and diversity of culture among different peoples; the fieldwork process; cultural change; political, economic, and social organizations; worldview and values; socialization; social and religious movements; and applications of anthropology to the contemporary world. Cynthia Saltzman
50:070:307 Psychological Anthropology (3) Relation between sociocultural factors and psychological processes among members of different groups: socialization of the individual, culturally determined variations in personality structure, evaluation of theories of personality in light of cross-cultural evidence, and psychological factors in sociocultural change. Prerequisite: 50:070:213 or 50:070:101. Patrick McCarty
50:070:338 North American Indians (3) History, cultural background, and contemporary situation of major North American Indian groups. Special attention to social relations, political and religious movements, and cultural change. Patrick McCarty
50:070:385 Special Topics in Anthropology: Identity and Social Inequality (3) Race, gender, class, sexual orientation, ethnicity, citizenship, political affiliation. What do these different group identities mean to Americans? Should we celebrate or downplay our diversity? This course explores how we think about others and ourselves as members of different groups and what consequences this has for people’s lives and their access to society’s resources, opportunities, and rewards. Our fundamental social identities can be a source of power or of powerlessness, a justification for inequality or the source of collective action and social reform. Students will learn about the importance of race, ethnicity, class, gender and sexual orientation across a variety of important contexts, such as the family, workplace, schools, politics and popular culture, and the implications of these identities for our daily lives. Sol Escobar
CRIMINAL JUSTICE (CAMDEN CAMPUS)
50:202:101 Introduction to Criminal Justice (3) American crime and criminal justice agencies, i.e., police, courts, and correctional agencies. Emphasis on criminal justice as a system and the processing of persons accused of a crime from the point of arrest to post conviction and release. Harry Rhea
50:202:202 Police and Policing (3) Explores the role of the police officer in the criminal justice system as well as the function of law enforcement in the United States. Includes historical foundations, trends, organizational structures, strategies, and issues concerning American police and policing. Prerequisite: 50:202:101 or 50:202:201. Daniel Howard
50:202:203 Confinement and Corrections (3) History and organization of American corrections. Emphasis on sentencing, custodial institutions, intermediate sanctions, community corrections, and mechanisms for release. Prerequisite: 50:202:101 or 50:202:201. Ross Allen
50:202:204 Criminal Courts (3) Structures and functions of American courts and law. Courtroom work group; roles of attorneys, judges, and other court personnel; trial, trial outcomes, and appellate courts. Harry Rhea
50:202:310 Juvenile Delinquency (3) Examines the nature, extent, causes, and correlates of youth crime. Topics include the legal status of youth; the measurement of delinquency; the types of offenses youth commonly commit; gender and delinquency; and the role of education, families, peers, and gangs in delinquency. The course will also examine the philosophy and development of preventive and rehabilitative programs. Daniel Semenza
50:202:323 Varieties and Crime (3) Discussion of the many types of crime, ranging from victimless/morals offenses to property offenses to interpersonal crime. Emphasis on reduction policies. Ross Allen
50:202:327 Forensics Science: Theory, Expertise, and Policy (3) Since the late 19th century, forensic science has played an important role within criminal justice. Recent media attention has thrust forensics reluctantly into the spotlight to both positive and negative effect. This course aims to introduce the theoretical framework of forensic science from both an academic and practitioner viewpoint. Students will be familiarized with a range of forensic techniques, forensic terminology, and forensic procedures and protocols. We will examine the strengths and weaknesses of a number of common forensic techniques as well as the pitfalls of relying too heavily on forensic evidence. Finally, we will consider a number of related disciplines and issues, such as evidence admissibility, the CSI effect, human rights, and forensic regulation to gain a broader understanding of forensics’ modern role and future development within criminal justice. Prerequisite: 50:202:201. Kimberlee Moran
50:202:337 Inequality in Criminal Justice (3) Examines the disproportionate representation of poor and racial minorities in the United States criminal justice system. Includes trends, policies, and issues concerning the effects of class and race on justice outcomes. Prerequisite: 50:202:101 or 50:202:201. Sarah Tosh
50:202:345 Comparative Criminal Justice (3) Examination of the criminal justice systems of other nations. Emphasis on police, court, and corrections systems. Prerequisite: 50:202:101 or 50:202:201. Harry Rhea
50:202:346 Children and Families of the Incarcerated (3) Connects research on the impact of parental incarceration, brain development, trauma, toxic stress, attachment, and resilience theories to the experiences of children of incarcerated parents and their families. Examines emerging best practices in serving children with incarcerated parents in education, health/mental health, child welfare, and corrections. Ann Adalist-Estrin
50:202:365 Queer Crime (3) Queer crime and punishment in America. Nonfictional accounts of queer–lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender–criminality as well as policing and punishment of these queer identities. Examines myth, misunderstanding, and prejudices of queer identities, criminalization of queer behavior, and marginalization of queer offenders by the criminal justice system. Gail Caputo
50:202:404 Service/Internship in Criminal Justice (Credits by arrangement) Supervised service/internship in a criminal justice agency. No more than 3 credits to be counted toward the major. Prerequisites: 50:202:101 or 50:202:201 and instructor permission. Cheryl Hallman
50:202:405 Criminal Investigation Practicum I (3) Under instructor supervision, students provide investigative services for actual legal cases. Through seminars and field experience, students learn investigative techniques such as reviewing discovery, locating and interviewing witnesses, obtaining records, and testifying and writing detailed reports. Course may be repeated for 6 credits (only 3 credits can be counted toward electives for criminal justice majors). Open to juniors and seniors. Kevin Murphy
50:202:449 Ethics and Policy in Criminal Justice (3) The development, implementation, and evaluation of criminal justice policy. Ethics of law enforcement, court processes, and corrections. Evaluation of research on topics such as race, class, and gender disparities; capital punishment; gun control; drug policy; pornography; and gambling. Prerequisites: Senior status. 50:202:101 or 50:202:201 and 50:920:301. Nathan Link
SOCIOLOGY (CAMDEN CAMPUS)
50:920:101 Introduction to Sociology (3) Introduction to the study of social groups and societies. Basic sociological methods and theoretical perspectives. Survey of basic subfields of sociology, such as socialization, family, religion, inequality, race and ethnicity, politics, deviance, and social change. The department recommends that students wishing to take advanced courses begin with Introduction to Sociology. Joanna Cohen Kallan
50:920:208 Contemporary Social Problems (3) Survey of contemporary social problems with particular attention to how social issues become defined as “problems” and to how sociological knowledge can inform social policy choices. Topics include poverty, discrimination, family breakup, crime, mental illness, alcoholism, and others. Nonmajors may choose to take this course as a beginning course in sociology. Katharina Hazzard
50:920:301 Methods and Techniques of Social Research (3) Introduces basic methods and techniques of social research, including formulating research design and utilizing appropriate data-gathering techniques. Prerequisite: 50:920:101 or 50:920:207 or 50:202:101 or 50:202:201. Laura Napolitano, Catherine Heitz
50:920:313 Theories of Crime and Delinquency (3) Explanation of crime and delinquency in American society. Topics include deterrence theory, biological explanations for crime, sociological theories, and conflict-based theories. Emphasis on social causes of crime. Prerequisite: 50:920:101 or 50:920:207 or 50:202:101 or 50:202:201. Richard Stansfield, Ross Allen
50:920:314 Masculinities (3) This course is an introduction to the interdisciplinary study of masculinities. Moving past the conception of gender as a fixed biological category, the course addresses the emergence and representations of multiple masculinities in American culture along intersections with race, class, sexuality, and other areas of difference. It examines the ways diverse formations of masculinities function at the individual and collective level in various domains, such as in sports, family, relationships, subcultures, work and other social and physical sites. It addresses issues including the body, female and queer masculinities, maleness, boyhood, and violence. The course is interdisciplinary and will offer various contexts for exploring masculinities, such as academic and popular literature, film, and music. Gail Caputo
50:920:316 Race and Ethnicity (3) The social construction of race and ethnicity in the United States and around the globe. The formation of racial and ethnic identities and the varieties of group interaction, including prejudice, discrimination, assimilation, institutional domination, and change. Changing concepts, boundaries, and interrelationships within a global context. Katherina Hazzard
50:920:317 Race in Latin America (3) Overview of race and race-mixing in Brazil and across the Americas. Interdisciplinary examination of forms of racial categorization, discrimination, and ideologies, whether in the form of nation-building projects, addressing racial inequality, or sexuality and family formation. Sol Escobar
50:920:325 Sociological Theory (3) An intensive study of the classical sociological thinkers–Marx, Durkheim, Weber–and a survey of contemporary theoretical traditions in the field. Prerequisite: 50:920:101 or 50:920:207 Joan Mazelis
50:920:345 Sociology of Education (3) Examines the interaction between schools and society. Explores socialization, the development of mass education, cultural differences and classroom interactions, the relationship between schooling and stratification, school funding and segregation, schools as social organizations in terms of bureaucratic procedures, authority, identity, and student peer networks. Julio Alicea
50:920:418 Medical Sociology (3) Examines the distribution of health and disease and looks at the social organization of the health care system in contemporary society. Takes up the sociology of healing and therapy techniques and the interaction of patients and practitioners. Joanna Cohen-Kallan
50:920:445 Special Topics in Sociology: Black Masculinity (3) This course examines historical, sociological, psychological and political factors that influence the identity of the black man in the United States. This course will use a variety of documentaries, film, guest lecturers, text and readings to as part of the interactive class dialogue. Eliezer Marcellus
CAMDEN COUNTY COLLEGE – BLACKWOOD CAMPUS
50:202:325 Violent Crime (3) Discussion of gangs, homicide, serial crimes of violence, interpersonal violence, and rape. Emphasis on crimes involving weapon use. Prerequisite: 50:202:101 or 50:202:201. Ross Allen
50:202:337 Inequality in Criminal Justice (3) Examines the disproportionate representation of poor and racial minorities in the United States criminal justice system. Includes trends, policies, and issues concerning the effects of class and race on justice outcomes. Prerequisite: 50:202:101 or 50:202:201. Augustine Isamah
50:202:354 Special Topics in Criminal Justice: Hate Crimes (3) This upper-level criminal justice class will focus on the response of police, courts, and corrections system to hate crimes. Important issues affecting society and the criminal justice system as a whole will be examined in depth. Students will be expected to read scholarly work exploring these issues; participate in class discussions; conduct library research; write short, informal memos and a senior level research paper; present oral reports on their research; and demonstrate their understanding of assigned readings and the research reported by classmates in a final examination. Brenna Stone
50:202:355 Special Topics in Criminal Justice: History and Use of Community Corrections (3) This course will cover the history, evidence around, and experience of community corrections. Specifically, we will examine the early history of community corrections in the United States and how its role has changed over the years; the evidence for community supervision and various supervision practices; and the experiences of community supervision as reported by those on supervision and by supervision officers. Walter Campbell
50:920:313 Theories of Crime and Delinquency (3) Explanation of crime and delinquency in American society. Topics include deterrence theory, biological explanations for crime, sociological theories, and conflict-based theories. Emphasis on social causes of crime. Prerequisite: 50:920:101 or 50:920:207 or 50:202:101 or 50:202:201. Joseph Dagrossa
ATLANTIC CAPE COMMUNITY COLLEGE – MAYS LANDING CAMPUS
50:202:457 Special Topics in Criminal Justice: Mental Health Issues, Social Welfare Issues, and the Criminal Law () This course will explore historical and contemporary social and criminal law/system responses to persons who have or are experiencing mental health issues or social welfare issues. Specifically, contemporary practices and model responses to individuals which come to the attention of the criminal justice system are discussed. Options for diversion and challenges for reentry back into the community are discussed. Changes in law enforcement policies and procedures, as well as legal codes, will be addressed. Specifically, the role of the police, courts, and corrections in diversion and collaborative efforts to provide alternatives to criminal law intervention and incarceration will be scrutinized. Dean Wyks
50:920:301 Methods and Techniques of Social Research (3) Introduces basic methods and techniques of social research, including formulating research design and utilizing appropriate data-gathering techniques. Tracy Swan
*50:920:316 Race and Ethnicity (3) The social construction of race and ethnicity in the United States and around the globe. The formation of racial and ethnic identities and the varieties of group interaction, including prejudice, discrimination, assimilation, institutional domination, and change. Changing concepts, boundaries, and interrelationships within a global context. Augustine Isamah
CRIMINAL JUSTICE GRADUATE PROGRAM
56:202:516 Criminal Investigation Practicum I (3) Under instructor supervision, students provide investigative services for actual legal cases. Through seminars and field experience, students learn investigative techniques such as reviewing discovery, locating and interviewing witnesses, obtaining records, and testifying and writing detailed reports. Course may be repeated for 6 credits (only 3 credits can be counted toward electives for criminal justice majors). Kevin Murphy
56:202:600 Research Methods in Criminal Justice (3) Foundation in research methods commonly used in criminal justice and the social sciences. Includes conceptualization, operationalization, research method and design, sampling approaches, data collection, analysis, and ethics in research. Prerequisite: Undergraduate course in research methods. Christopher Thomas
56:202:673 Special Topics in Criminal Justice: Using Crime Data (3) The course introduces students to new ways to visualize, map, and explore spatial relationships in crime data. Students will review theoretical ideas of crime at local places, before reviewing both academic and professional reports using and displaying crime data to answer local policy questions. Students will develop their own research question to explore using mapping software. Richard Stansfield
56:202:674 Special Topics in Criminal Justice: Children & Families of the Incarcerated (3) Connects research on the impact of parental incarceration, brain development, trauma, toxic stress, attachment, and resilience theories to the experiences of children of incarcerated parents and their families. Examines emerging best practices in serving children with incarcerated parents in education, health/mental health, child welfare, and corrections. Ann Adalist-Estrin
56:202:675 Special Topics in Criminal Justice: Cannabis and Social Institution (3) This course will present the rich history of cannabis and examine its impact on society and our social institutions. Students will first study the history of cannabis from its ancient past to its place in the contemporary world, exploring its cultural influence over time. We will then cover important research and policies within each major social institution including the family, religion, education, the military, professional sports and the criminal justice system. We will also cover the relationship between cannabis and the individual factors (e.g., race, gender, age) that influence our experience in society. This is a unique time in history for cannabis policy in the U.S. Every year, more states legalize its recreational and medical use. Meanwhile, the federal government still classifies cannabis as an illegal Schedule I drug. Policymakers and advocates must navigate through this conflict between state and federal law (and support) – with interesting results. In class, we will reflect on these developments together and discuss the best path forward for cannabis policy in each social institution. This course is designed to foster critical thinking about the past, present and future impacts of cannabis on cultures and social institutions by developing a more in-depth understanding of its history. To this end, it is important that students recognize the inclusive approach toward understanding equity issues related to cannabis policy. Courtney Harding