2019-2020 University Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
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Construction Management |
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CNST 515 - Project Enterprise Management and Control I
Prerequisites: Permission of instructor
Delivery: Delivery: Residential practicum
Today’s construction executive must understand the business of the construction enterprise. Working in a case study format, students will explore the various elements of the construction business to include: strategic planning, work acquisition, project control, financial management, and human relations. Course is offered in a practicum format.
3 credits
Special Offer
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CNST 520 - Construction Negotiations
Prerequisites: Graduate standing or permission of instructor
Delivery: Delivery: Online
No construction project is ever built to the plans and specifications generated at the start. No set of plans and specifications ever accurately reflects what the owner had in mind. Conflicts are inevitable in the construction process. Every project participant must realize these facts and develop ways to resolve the conflicts to produce a good product with the maximum amount of satisfaction on the part of all participants. This course will evaluate techniques that can produce the product and the satisfaction quotient desired. Topics include: alternate methods of dispute resolution; methods of managing client expectations; professional practice and ethics; teambuilding methods; common characteristics of successful leaders; a consideration of personal network systems; communication in its many forms; goal alignment - how to do it and why it is important; managing meetings; and, current project successes and failures.
3 credits
Fall
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CNST 525 - Pre Construction Planning and Project Delivery
Prerequisites: Graduate standing or permission of instructor
Delivery: Delivery: Online
Successful construction projects require significant project collaboration; owners, designers, and constructors all come to the project with different visions that must be aligned. Early in the project the owner’s needs are balanced by the reality of cost and schedule. Concurrently, the inherent risks are identified and a decision is made as to how the project is best delivered. The course will examine the alternate methods of project delivery as well as the technologies that can be used to maximize project value. A particular focus will be placed on estimating and scheduling during the pre-construction stage of a project to include Building Information Management (BIM) and other tools that can be used to maximize value and improve constructability.
3 credits
Special Offer
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CNST 530 - Personnel Management and Law
Prerequisites: Graduate standing or permission of instructor
Delivery: Delivery: Online
One of the largest cost elements in any construction project is the cost of personnel. The penalties incurred if the letter and the spirit of the current laws affecting personnel management are not observed are potentially devastating to the cost and schedule for any construction project. This course will examine the current requirements and trends for the personnel laws governing the construction industry. Topics include: typical employment contract requirements for management personnel and building trades personnel; the impact of “work rules” on estimating and scheduling; “trade-offs” for modifying various “work rules” and determining the legality of the managers’ ability to modify “work rules”; the economic impacts of “work rules” and “trade-offs”; case studies in labor relations and labor relations effects on bidding and executing construction contracts; salient decisions in labor law from the US Courts system in the last twelve months and how they are likely to affect the construction industry; recent trends in international labor law or labor law in a single foreign country to compare and contrast how the construction industry operating in a foreign environment will be affected.
3 credits
Spring
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CNST 535 - Facilities Management
Delivery: Lecture
This course focuses on facilities management for large institutions. Topics include facilities operations; asset management; computerized maintenance management systems (CMMS); budgeting; strategic decision-making; leadership; labor management; maintenance & repair; sustainability; and energy use-management. Minimum Passing Grade: 76% or B-
3 credits
Fall and Spring
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CNST 540 - Sustainable Construction
Cross-Listed with: CNST 465
Prerequisites: Graduate standing or permission of instructor
Delivery: Delivery: Distance Delivery
This course develops an awareness of environmental problems created by construction projects. The course also examine the means and methods of addressing these problems in a “green” way. Sustainability must be addressed on a life-cycle basis from the origins of the building materials, through the construction process, ending with the eventual disposal of the project. Topics include: LEED history and application; life-cycle costing; energy measurement; sustainable site planning and; “green” technologies; sustainability as a value-engineering exercise; the methods and means of sustainable construction; “green” site logistics; educating the sustainable work force; sustainable construction and public relations.
3 credits
Fall, Spring
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CNST 545 - Construction Organization, Control and Logistics
Prerequisites: Graduate standing or permission of instructor
Delivery: Delivery: Distance Delivery
This course addresses the analysis and control of construction projects using advanced techniques for budgeting and scheduling. Topics include: hierarchical company organizations with line and staff components in the control and logistical support of construction projects; response cycle time for company organizations; cost control schemes for allocating resources to construction activities; the administrative overhead costs for control and logistical processes; the susceptibility of a logistical support system to fraud; and, the applicability of a control and logistical support system to joint ventures.
3 credits
Fall, Spring
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CNST 550 - Special Topics in Construction Management
Prerequisites: Graduate standing or permission of instructor
Delivery: Delivery: Arranged with instructor
Selected topics determined by student needs and/or the availability of appropriate instruction.
3 credits
Special Offering
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CNST 555 - Advanced Construction Law
Prerequisites: Graduate standing or permission of instructor
Delivery: Delivery: Distance Delivery
An examination of the legal system and the maxims of law, as applicable to the construction industry. The course will primarily focus on United States law, but will also address construction in an international environment. The course will look at the bidding and award of construction projects, dispute resolution, delays and acceleration, differing site conditions, bonding, insurance and contract interpretation. Topics include: bidding requirements for public works projects; changed conditions for public works projects; arbitration requirements for contract disputes; liens and lien release requirements; criminal investigations; regulatory infringement investigation; and, reporting requirements for progress payments.
3 credits
Fall, Spring
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CNST 560 - Project Delivery II
Prerequisites: Permission of instructor
Delivery: Delivery: Residential practicum
Continuation of the topics presented in CNST 515 with special emphasis on the emerging paradigm of Integrated Project Delivery
3 credits
Winter
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CNST 562 - Advanced Information Technology in Construction
Prerequisites: Graduate standing or permission of instructor
Delivery: Lecture
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The need for leveraging information management technologies in construction projects continues to increase as projects become more complex and fast-tracked. This course introduces students to applications of trending information technologies in the Architecture Engineering and Construction (AEC) industry. Some of the topics covered in this course are Building Information Modeling (BIM), Augmented and Virtual Reality (AR/VR), and laser scanning. This course focuses on construction-specific uses of these technologies while building skills required for using them in collaboration with other project stakeholders.
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3 credits
Fall and Spring
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CNST 565 - Customer Development and Winning the Construction Project
Prerequisites: Graduate standing or permission of instructor
Delivery: Delivery: Distance Delivery
This course examines techniques of customer development, marketing, assessment of growth and its impact on the organization, assessment of integrating new technology in company operations and integrating these functions into the construction management team. Topics include: the referral system; publicizing successful projects and using that success for future projects; the role of the satisfied customer in winning future work; the cost and the value of keeping all stakeholders satisfied with the results of a construction project; the skill set of a construction project salesman and how it differs from the engineer, the accountant, and the constructor; and, case studies of winning profitable and unprofitable construction contracts.
3 credits
Summer
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CNST 570 - Financial Planning for Construction Projects
Prerequisites: Graduate standing or permission of instructor
Delivery: Delivery: Distance Delivery
Financial planning prior to the design of a major construction project is required to determine the feasibility of the project. The assembly of the resources of all the participants prior to commitment to a project assures the owners and the constructors that the project success is attainable. This course will review the similarities and differences in financial requirements for large national and international construction projects. Topics include: the financial framework for a construction project prior to the bid phase; the risk involved in funding a major construction project and developing funding alternatives to accommodate the risks identified; a collaborative approach to dealing with the owner of a construction project during the planning phase to alleviate funding issues; incentives for the constructor to provide the maximum feasible or the minimum feasible amount of funding for a construction project; sources of funding for a construction project (owner, vendor, sub-contractor, etc.); “what if” analyses that allow the Constructor to plan for contingencies during the construction process; and, assigning a quality value to any profit gained.
3 credits
Fall, Spring
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CNST 580 - Advanced Construction Safety and Risk Management
Prerequisites: Graduate standing or permission of instructor
Delivery: Delivery: Online
This course examines the uniqueness of the construction project and its challenges to safety. Topics include: the nature of the safety legislative and regulatory framework; divergent safety attitudes of construction parties; compressed work schedules and their impact on safety; how to calculate and apply the experience modification rate; how to manage safety in a continually changing work environment; practical ways to better educate the work force; OSHA policies and procedures applicable to construction; design with safety in mind; and, safety applied to site logistics plans.
3 credits
Summer
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CNST 585 - Topics in International Construction
Prerequisites: Graduate standing or permission of instructor
Delivery: Delivery: Online
Special considerations in international construction include, but not limited to, local laws; regulations, multiple government, private, and NGO funding sources; multiple stake holders (local populations, governments, quasi-government institutions, supra-government organizations, and private institutions); and political currents govern the planning and conduct of large construction projects. This course will provide an introductory summary of the challenges and rewards in International Construction.
3 credits
Summer
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CNST 590 - Master’s Thesis Research
Prerequisites: Graduate standing or permission of instructor
Corequisite: CNST 595
Delivery: Delivery: Distance Delivery
With the approval of his or her advisory committee, the student conducts independent research and analysis. The thesis is presented orally and in writing and in compliance with the guidelines of Roger Williams Graduate School. Research and analysis must be of a specific, approved topic relating to construction management such as “The Selection of the Most Effective Manner of Managing Sustainable Construction Projects”. This course will present research methods required to complete the Master’s Thesis and must be taken in conjunction with CNST 595 , Research Project.
3 credits
Fall, Spring
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CNST 595 - Research Project
Prerequisites: Graduate standing or permission of instructor
Delivery: Delivery: Arranged with advisor
A course offered for research in a Construction Management topic approved by the instructor. The product of the course will be an original research paper completed by the student with the advice of the instructor.
3 credits
Fall, Spring, Summer
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CNST 596 - Research Project II
Prerequisites: CNST 590 , CNST 595
Delivery: Lecture
This is the second of two courses designed to have students work on their research report. Students will complete their thesis report and present an oral defense Minimum Passing Grade: B-
3 credits
Fall and Spring
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Continuing Studies |
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SCS 430 - Special Topics in Continuing Studies
Prerequisites: None
A Special Topic allows students to engage in courses that cut across concentration offerings in the School of Continuing Studies. These courses can be inter/intra disciplinary or multi-disciplinary. They offer students the opportunity to: intentionally and thoughtfully examine modern day issues through multiple, cross-cutting lenses; work within or across disciplines to solve problems; engage in critical thinking to inform and communicate professional judgments and practice.
3 credits
Spring, Fall, On-Line delivery
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SCS 440 - Continuing Studies Practicum
Prerequisites: at least Junior standing
A Junior or Senior project -based experience that allow students to thoughtfully and intentionally engage in intra/inter disciplinary and/ or multi-disciplinary work that integrates theory and practice - praxis. The course may be repeated for credit up to two times, consecutively or concurrently.
3 credits
Fall, Spring, On-line delivery
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Core Curriculum |
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CORE 101 - Scientific Investigations
Prerequisites: None
Corequisite: Students must register concurrently for lecture (CORE 101) and lab (CORE 101L).
This interdisciplinary course explores important issues of societal and personal relevance by evaluating testable ideas through experimentation and literature-based research in lecture and laboratory settings. Students will use the process of science to generate data and synthesize new ideas to come to evidence-based conclusions that will illuminate responses to the three core questions: Who am I, what can I know, and given what I know, how should I act? Lecture content will vary across sections to reflect the expertise of instructors from the breadth of scientific disciplines including astronomy, biology, chemistry, environmental science, geology, oceanography, physics, public health, and sustainability studies, among others. The laboratory experience complements the lecture by providing students with hands-on opportunities to use the scientific method as they lead their own research investigations.
4 credits
Fall, Spring
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CORE 102 - Challenges of Democracy
Prerequisites: None
This course, which is taught primarily by faculty from the Departments of History & American Studies and Politics & International Relations, investigates the roots of current democratic thought through the study of primary source material dating from antiquity to the present. Other sources of inquiry may include scholarly analyses, films and documentaries, and works of the imagination including literature and art. Upon completion of the course, students will be able to explain, evaluate and critique the key concepts from these primary source readings and demonstrate how these concepts are expressed in the modern world. Special attention will be paid to the student’s ability to apply this knowledge to such topics as political institutions, activism and national identity.
3 credits
Fall, Spring, Summer
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CORE 103 - Human Behavior in Perspective
Prerequisites: None
A study of the individual in society, this course draws from disciplines such as psychology, sociology, and anthropology in order to demonstrate the idea that multiple perspectives and frames of reference broaden our understanding of specific behaviors. A focus on cultural diversity will be a central feature throughout the course. The course also proposes a model for critical thinking about human behavior in general. Students explore the limitations of a single point of view and the benefits of information derived from multiple vantages as they consider key existential questions: Who am I? What can I know? And, based on what I know, how should I act?
3 credits
Fall, Spring
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CORE 104 - Literature, Philosophy, and the Examined Life
Prerequisites: None
This course explores central questions related to the examined life-Who am I? What can I know? How should I act?-through literary and philosophical texts. Participants practice close reading and logical reasoning as methods for understanding how literary and philosophical texts convey meaning. Common readings include selected dialogues by Plato.
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CORE 105 - Aesthetics in Context: The Artistic Impulse
Prerequisites: None
This course examines a variety of masterworks and artists from the western traditions of art, dance, music, and theater. The course situates art and artists in historical perspective, emphasizes Classicism, Romanticism, Modernism and relates them to contemporary modes of expression. Works of art will be presented in context, so the impact of historical circumstance and cultural expectation on the creative artist will be apparent. Students will respond through oral and written analysis to masterworks studied in class and to works experienced at outside performances. While all sections of the course will include historic masterworks from the fields of art, theater, dance, and music, specific content of individual sections will reflect the interests and expertise of the professor. Throughout the semester, we also examine the work and ideas we study in order to explore the role, meaning and implications of questions that have shaped the human experience: Who am I? What can I know? How should I act?
3 credits
Fall, Spring
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CORE 430 - Special Topics in Liberal Studies
Prerequisites: Core seminar, required for graduation CORE 101 through CORE 105 and at least sixth semester standing
A variable -content Core Interdisciplinary Senior Seminar that builds upon the foundation of the five-course interdisciplinary Core. Each offering addresses a topic of recognized academic and educational significance, situates the topic in interdisciplinary contexts, makes connections between the domains of the freshman-sophomore Core, pursues inquiry into the course topic and its context through primary, substantive and Representative texts, and organizes the Seminar Topic according t o one or more of the following schemes: great ideas, cultures, figures, or works (Western and/or non-Western).
3 credits
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CORE 441 - Disease and Society
Prerequisites: Core seminar, required for graduation CORE 101 through CORE 105 and at least sixth semester standing
Throughout history, disease epidemics have had a profound impact on societies. In this course, students explore how five diseases (bubonic plague, smallpox, tuberculosis, malaria, and HIV) have influenced the art, literature, science, and behavior of cultures through time. We examine how individuals and societies try to regain control and bring order back from the chaos and confusion that disease can leave in its wake.
Readings include, but are not limited to, works by Boccaccio, Defoe, Boorstin, Jenner, Koch, Sontag, Mann, and Shilts; reports issued by the Center for Disease Control; and current scientific articles.
3 credits
Fall, Spring
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CORE 442 - Prejudice and Institutional Violence
Prerequisites: Core seminar, required for graduation CORE 101 through CORE 105 and at least sixth semester standing
In this course we explore the conditions that promote some of the most devastating aspects of human experience. We also look at the options available to citizens, minority and majority members, caught in the complex web of interpersonal relations in these societies. The Holocaust and other genocides will be used to assess cultural commonalities. We approach these events from an interdisciplinary perspective drawing on the historical antecedents, scientific contributions, uses of art and literature, philosophical rationales, propaganda campaigns, and social scientific orientations. Discussion concludes with an exploration of ways by which individual prejudice can be reduced and with an investigation of measures which may prevent further episodes of genocide. Texts include: Night/Dawn, Conscience and Courage, short stories by Singer, Books of Evil.
3 credits
Fall, Spring
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CORE 443 - The Proper Order of Things?
Prerequisites: Core seminar, required for graduation CORE 101 through CORE 105 and at least sixth semester standing
From the Monopoly board game to the Periodic Chart, we take the world we live in and put it in order. Understanding how things are categorized gives us a power over our world and finding a new way to order our world results in ground breaking discoveries. Just think of the scientific advances made possible once we understood that the planets revolve around the Sun instead of the Earth! This course investigates the history of set structures and categories established in our own primarily European-based culture, and compares them with how people organize their world in other cultures of contemporary and ancient Asia, Africa, Oceania and Native America.
Readings include selections from: Mark Francis and Randolph Hester, Jr. (eds.), The Meaning of Gardens: Ideas, Place and Action (on landscape design); Ivan Karp and Steven Lavine, Exhibiting Cultures: The Poetics and Politics of Museum Display (on classification of artifacts); Martin W. Lewis and Karen Wigen, The Myth of the Continents: A Critique of Metageography (on classifications of geography and mapping); Harriet Ritvo, The Platypus and the Mermaid, and Other Figments of the Classifying Imagination; Nathan Spielberg and Bryon D. Anderson, Seven Ideas that Shook the Universe; Mark Turner, The Literary Mind; and excerpts from contemporary films: Party Girl, Angels and Insects, A Day on the Grand Canal With the Emperor of China.
3 credits
Fall, Spring
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CORE 444 - Perspectives in World Culture
Prerequisites: Core seminar, required for graduation CORE 101 through CORE 105 and at least sixth semester standing
All societies share in the struggle between the forces of order and chaos. In this course students explore this struggle, examining cross-cultural connections between Western culture and the cultures of India and China and investigating the similarities and differences among these cultures.
Readings include selections from: Time Frames in History, Our Oriental Heritage, Rig Veda, Kathopanisad, Arthashastra, Asoka’s Rock Edicts, The Gandhi Reader, Saints of India, The Koran, I Ching, Anthologies of Chinese Literature, Mao’s Red Book, Sources of Chinese Traditions, Chinese Civilization: A Source Book, and China, A New History.
3 credits
Fall, Spring
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CORE 446 - Visions of Utopia: Dreams and Delusions
Prerequisites: Core seminar, required for graduation CORE 101 through CORE 105 and at least sixth semester standing
Literally, the word “utopia” means “no place.” Yet, throughout history, people have imagined they could establish an ideal community in this temporal world of time and space. Often, the societies they envisioned were more just, prosperous, spiritual, beautiful, or compassionate than those that existed; at other times, what they proposed could only be characterized by the greed, cruelty, and ignorance it would engender.
Participants in this course will study “utopia” as a concept and a theme, a theory and a practice. This survey will take us from the pages of Thomas More’s Utopia to the ungoverned virtual space of the Internet. In the process, we will consider the way knowledge of utopias and dystopias shapes our world view and forms our ethos.
Readings include: The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood, Looking Backward by Edward Bellamy, Herland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Utopia by Thomas More, The Republic by Plato, Walden Two by B.F. Skinner, and Night by Elie Wiesel.
3 credits
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CORE 447 - Cultural Creations: Women Across Time
Prerequisites: Core seminar, required for graduation CORE 101 through CORE 105 and at least sixth semester standing
This course attempts to open our minds and imaginations to the complex subtleties of underlying gender assumptions implicit in gender/role “assignments.” From the first moments of our history, we human beings have categorized our surroundings, including our very selves, in an attempt to order our chaotic world. Stereotyping-reducing a complexity to a simple, easily identifiable formula, becomes an integral part of that ordering, a sort of communication “shorthand.” Sexual stereotyping becomes, for most civilizations, the basis not only for social structuring and division of labor, but also for value judgments and moral justification. Through the interdisciplinary lens - archeological, anthropological, artistic, economic, legal, literary, historical, philosophical, religious and scientific, this course seeks to unearth the complex beginnings and plot the evolution of sexual definition from prehistory to present day.
3 credits
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CORE 449 - Environmental Ethics
Prerequisites: Core seminar, required for graduation CORE 101 through CORE 105 and at least sixth semester standing
Whereas ethics examines the interaction of humans with humans, Environmental Ethics examines the interaction of humans with nature. This is a relatively young field of study originating from a series of highly visible, interdisciplinary conflicts over resource management and conservation biology. It took years for society to recognize that we have the ability to irreversibly alter the environment, and even longer for us to develop a conscience over the result. Although we might like to think that the application of logical, objective scientific reasoning to environmental problems will lead to correct decisions, this is rarely the case. This course will introduce students to the philosophical, social, political, legal, economic and aesthetic considerations of environmental policy decisions. Students will come to understand the science behind a series of diverse environmental topics and then examine and balance the alternative perceptions that present themselves. This will engender discussion and reflection on the central questions of the RWU Core program (Who am I? What can I know? Based on what I know, how should I act?) as applied to environmental policy decisions.
3 credits
Fall, Spring
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CORE 450 - Are We of It or Against It? People and Their Planet in the 21st Century
Prerequisites: Core seminar, required for graduation CORE 101 through CORE 105 and at least sixth semester standing
Artists, poets, novelists, filmmakers, photographers, scientists, historians and policymakers all attend to the relationships between people and their natural surroundings. Those in the creative arts tend to focus on the glory of nature often with little reference to, or even a conscious avoidance of, the role people play in nature; those in the social and physical sciences examine humanity’s increasingly intrusive interactions with nature. In this course we will investigate the place of humans in nature through the lens of multiple disciplines. We will read selections from nature writers and poets, including Wait Whitman, Annie Dillard, Barry Lopez, Edward Abbey and W.S. Merwin. Photographers Ansel Adams and Galen Rowell and the painters of the Hudson River school will join these writers to draw our attention to the complexity, beauty and interrelatedness of the natural world. The work of scientists, historians and policy analysts will serve as a counterpoint to these works as they draw out attention to the negative impact of human activity on the natural world.
3 credits
Fall, Spring
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CORE 451 - It’s All Greek to Us
Prerequisites: Core seminar, required for graduation CORE 101 through CORE 105 and at least sixth semester standing
A Core Senior Seminar tracing the origins of the modern world back to its Greek roots. It is from the Greeks, more than from any other source, that the western world traces its origins. Our religions, our science, our literature, our philosophy, our artistic and dramatic forms, and our governmental concepts are all reflections (or, in some cases, rejections) of ideas and practices that can be traced to the world of the ancient Greeks (Hellenic and Hellenistic). This course will study those enduring traditions. Readings include The Iliad, The Wine-dark Sea: Why the Greeks Matter, and selections from Greek history, drama, and philosophy.
3 credits
Fall, Spring
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CORE 452 - Collecting Ourselves: Why We Build, Preserve and Display Collections
Prerequisites: Core seminar, required for graduation CORE 101 through CORE 105 and at least sixth semester standing
Through readings, discussion, presentation, field trips and a research paper, this seminar will explore who we are and what we value through the collections we build. Gathering, preserving and displaying will be explored through psychological, social, scientific, historical, economic, aesthetic and political lenses. Students will read significant texts from a wide variety of disciplines addressing the particular problems of collecting in diverse fields of inquiry. Using the theories, ideas, and approaches gleaned from various disciplinary sources, students will understand how their own field of study is effected by the moral, esthetic, and social issues of collecting, saving, and displaying culturally or personally significant objects. This history of collecting, its personal and political motivations, as well as the ethical and scientific questions raised by collecting everything from paintings to biological specimens to postage stamps will be studied.
3 credits
Fall, Spring
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CORE 453 - Obsession: Understanding
Prerequisites: CORE 101 through CORE 105 and at least sixth semester standing CORE 101 through CORE 105 and at least sixth semester standing
Obsession appears to be a human trait that showcases the best and worst of human possibility. It is from obsession that great works of art can be produced, and from obsession that great thoughts and world changing technologies are born. Obsession is also at the root of some of the worst of humankind. This course engages in an interdisciplinary investigation of what obsession is, how it can affect history and culture, and how it is portrayed in literature and fine art. By the conclusion of the course we will have a better understanding of how one person’s obsession can mean so much to the greater collective, and sometimes even change the course of how we will know the world.
3 credits
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CORE 456 - The Internet & the Digital Revolution
Prerequisites: Core Senior Seminar, required for graduation CORE 101 through CORE 105 and at least sixth semester standing
Social commentators in the humanities and sciences have characterized our age of disruptive change as the “Knowledge Revolution”, “Third Industrial Revolution”, or the “Information Revolution”. The clearest example of these changes lies in the Internet with its gargantuan storehouse of data, terrestrial ubiquity, and vast communication reach. Creating and disseminating digital data is the keystone to this revolution. This course examines the origins of the internet, from Jacquard’s loom of the 1840 to the World Wide Web of today, from Morse’s communication with coded pulses to the interlinked fiber optic networks, and from the barter of goods in the marketplace to eBay and iTunes. The course examines the ramifications of these technologies through texts on areas such as the arts, science, education, culture, privacy, crime, national security, the economy, gaming and politics. Participants are expected to lead and participate in seminar discussions on these topics. Participants are expected to have access to the internet, through either a computer or smartphone.
3 credits
Fall, Spring
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CORE 457 - Families and Society
Prerequisites: Core seminar, required for graduation CORE 101 through CORE 105 and at least sixth semester standing
This course serves as a capstone to the Core Curriculum at Roger Williams University. The Core Curriculum centers on three questions: Who am I? What can I know? Based on what I know, how should I act? Families often define who we are, what we know, and how we think we should act. This course explores the reciprocal influences of families on society and of society on the family. We explore the meaning of family across time and culture. This will include depictions and discussions of families in the arts, sciences, social sciences, and literature, as well as a consideration of the future of the family for individuals and society.
3 credits
Fall, Spring
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CORE 458 - Technology, Self and Society
Prerequisites: Core Senior Seminar, required for graduation CORE 101 through CORE 105 and at least sixth semester standing
This is not a technical course. Rather, it looks at how a technology emerges and may extend beyond its intended purposes. Today’s college student has been surrounded by technology since birth. Portable music devices have more storage capabilities than was conceivable for desktop computers in the mid-90’s. Technology is becoming more and more ingrained into the fabric of our daily lives. This course looks at the impact of technology beyond everyday devices. How did this happen and what does it mean for you as an active participant within a global society? Beyond computers themselves, the course explores other emerging technologies and the issues they raise, including technological impact on culture, ethics, privacy, and security in a global environment.
3 credits
Fall, Spring
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CORE 459 - Popular Culture and Globalization
Prerequisites: Core seminar, required for graduation CORE 101 through CORE 105 and at least sixth semester standing
This Core Interdisciplinary Senior Seminar will explore how popular culture and globalization have had, and continue to have, an impact on our lives (on both a local and a global scale). The nature of popular culture itself, as a particular kind of culture, will be examined and various examples of popular culture will be considered. The nature of globalization, as both a historical and contemporary phenomenon, will also be addressed as a topic in and of itself. Through examining these two significant forces separately and in relationship to each other we will gain a greater understanding of how these two phenomena influence our lives and the world in which we live. This understanding will allow us to more fully answer the central core questions: Who am I? What do I know? Based on What I know, what should I do?
3 credits
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CORE 461 - Researching Race
Prerequisites: Core seminar, required for graduation CORE 101 through CORE 105 and at least sixth semester standing
Does the election of Barack Obama in 2008 signal a turning point in better understanding race, and the practice of racism, in the United States? Has the US overcome its history of differential treatment according to race and culture? In this course, students will take the long view of the history of race in the United States, how racism is operationalized, and the impacts of such bias, both on people of color and Whites. Additionally, students will engage in research on race and racism. Through this research, students will fuse the theoretical with the lived racialized experiences of those in our country/community.
3 credits
Fall, Spring
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CORE 462 - Sexual Identities
Prerequisites: Core seminar, required for graduation CORE 101 through CORE 105 and at least sixth semester standing
This course explores the private and public dimensions of sexual identity from a variety of disciplinary perspectives. Students examine how sexual identities are shaped by historical, social, and cultural factors and how sexual identities affect an individual’s relationship to community, the state, the law, medicine, etc. Course texts are drawn from the fields of history, psychology, sociology, legal studies, biology, philosophy, literature, cinema, fine art, feminist theory, critical race theory, gay and lesbian studies, queer theory, and transgender studies.
3 credits
Fall, Spring
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CORE 463 - Innovation and Invention
Prerequisites: Core seminar, required for graduation CORE 101 through CORE 105 and at least sixth semester standing
This course explores the patterns and processes of innovation that humans have developed to transform existing ideas into new ones. Over the course of the semester, students will investigate theories, techniques, and stories of innovation from across the disciplines; consider ethical questions surrounding innovation; and learn how to employ strategies of invention to develop new ideas, create new things, and respond in new ways to complex contemporary problems.
3 credits
Fall, Spring
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Creative Writing |
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CW 110 - Form in Poetry
Fulfills requirement in the CW major, minor, and core concentration.
Delivery: Lec/Lab
This foundation course is a critical and creative study of the notion of form in poetry, including essential received forms and the presence of form as evidenced in more nuanced aspects of patterns and shifts. Readings will include some of the oldest poems we know, some of the most recently published, and much in-between. The class provides an introduction to the studio experience.
3 credits
Fall and Spring
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CW 120 - Narrative in Prose
Fulfills requirement in the CW major, minor, and concentration.
Delivery: Lec/Lab
This foundation course is a critical study of the elements of narrative structure and design in the short story, such as character development, point of view, tone, setting, plotting, and time management. Through both seminars and writing workshops, the class combines the critical study of published writing and the development of student work to learn how narrative not only affects the short story, but becomes the short story. Students will be exposed to essential works by writers such as, James Baldwin, Raymond Carver, Anton Chekhov, Tim O’Brien, Flannery O’Conner, John Updike, and Alice Walker. Creative expectations are no more than two revised short stories that fully reflect the focused study of the course. Minimum Passing Grade: N/A
3 credits
Fall and Spring
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CW 210 - Reading as Writers/Poetry
Prerequisites: CW 110 or instruction permission
Fulfills requirement in the major and the minor Literature Elective
Delivery: Lec/Lab
Primarily seminar with some studio
This course approaches literary influence, tradition, form, and design from the careful study of poetry. Topics are generated by student interest and program need and may focus on a specific poet, a poetic aesthetic, the long/sequenced poem, the sonnet across time, project books, mixed-media and poetry, resistance poetry, prize-winners, translation, etc. Students will have the opportunity to write their own poems as well as explore issues in poetry such as tension, voice, lineation, syntax, sound, revelation, magnitude, historical and cultural contexts, etc. in both poems and craft articles. This variable topics course is repeatable (but not the topic) for both required and elective credit. Repeatable (but not the topic) for both required and elective credit.
3 credits
Spring
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CW 220 - Reading as Writers/Fiction
Prerequisites: CW 120 or Instructor Permission
Fulfills requirement in the CW major, minor, and concentration.
Delivery: Lec/Lab
Repeatable(but not the topic) for both required and elective credit.
In this course, students will learn to “read as writers.” Through studying a diverse range of contemporary fiction writers, students will learn to read a work through the lens of a practitioner, working to identify and model the various technical craft elements of the selected works. This class helps students bridge the critical analysis of the writing process with the development of their own writing skills. Students will be exposed to works of recent acclaim, primarily those works that have met with success in the past decade. This variable topics course is repeatable(but not the topic) for both required and elective credit. Repeatable(but not the topic) for both required and elective credit.
3 credits
Fall
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CW 230 - Reading as Writers/Nonfiction
Prerequisites: CW 120 or instructor permission
Fulfills requirement in CW major and minor.
Delivery: Lec/Lab
In this course, students will learn to “read as writers.” Through studying a diverse range of contemporary writers, students will learn to read a work through the lens of a practitioner, working to identify and model the various technical craft elements of the selected works. Focus in this course is in creative nonfiction: memoir, immersion, personal essay, and literary journalism. This class helps students bridge the critical analysis of the writing process with the development of their own writing skills. Students will be exposed to works of recent acclaim, primarily those works that have met with success in the past decade. This variable topics course is repeatable (but not the topic) for both required and elective credit
3 credits
Fall
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CW 241 - Introduction to Playwriting
Prerequisites: None
Fulfills a course requirement in the Creative Writing Core Concentration
All creative writers can benefit from studying playwriting by learning how to advance a plot through dialogue. This course will engage in a critical study of major contemporary playwrights, such as, David Mamet, Sam Shepherd, Eugene O’Neill, Tony Kushner, and August Wilson. Through that study, students will learn how to take the essential dramatic elements (dialogue, characterization, structure) and craft original monologues and scenes, culminating in an original one-act play.
3 credits
Spring
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CW 310 - Poetry Studio
Prerequisites: CW 110 or CW 120 or instructor permission
Fulfills a requirement in the CW major and minor.
Delivery: Studio
Poetry Studio intensively focuses on the study and making of poetry while emphasizing the relationships between new work, revision practice, and conversation linking the two. The course relies on student work, discussion, and development of that work as the primary text, with strategy-building articles, essays, exercises, and examples supplementing as appropriate. The studio is a place to experiment, explore, take risks, and otherwise challenge oneself as a poet aware of an audience and conscious of cultivating care with decisions regarding language. The Poetry Studio is a semester-long, repeatable course that builds the student’s final portfolio through applied, developmental practice. Repeatable: Yes
3 credits
Spring
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CW 320 - Fiction Studio
Prerequisites: CW 110 or CW 120 or instructor permission
Fulfills a requirement in the CW major and minor.
Delivery: Studio
Fiction Studio is a semester-long, repeatable workshop in which students, led by a faculty writer, conceive, create, share, and revise work. The emphasis here is on the student writer building a body of creative work, strengthening skills, and learning more about the particular methods and tools for success in fiction writing. Student writers will offer and receive feedback to and from peers. Work created in this environment will go toward the final portfolio of work each student will complete as a requirement of the degree. Successive studios will not only continue to build skills, but will study, through a rotation of topics, various genres of fiction writing. Repeatable:Yes
3 credits
Fall
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CW 330 - Nonfiction Studio
Prerequisites: CW 110 or CW 120 or instructor permission
Fulfills requirement in CW major and minor.
Delivery: Studio
Nonfiction Writing Studio is a semester-long, repeatable workshop in which students, led by a faculty writer, conceive, create, share, and revise work. The emphasis here is on the student writer building a body of creative work, strengthening skills, and learning more about the particular methods and tools for success in nonfiction writing. Student writers will offer and receive feedback to and from peers. Work created in this environment will go toward the final portfolio of work each student will complete as a requirement of the degree. Successive studios will not only continue to build skills, but will study, through a rotation of topics, various genres of nonfiction writing. In Nonfiction Studio, those might include but are not limited to Memoir, Autobiography and Biography, Literary Journalism and Immersion/Experiential Writing. Repeatable:Yes
3 credits
Fall
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CW 340 - Screenwriting Studio
Prerequisites: CW 110 or CW 120 or instructor permission
Fulfills requirement in CW major and minor.
Delivery: Studio
Screenwriting Studio covers some of the basics of writing for the screen, including elements of conceptualization, shooting, editing and finishing of a short film on a subject of the student’s choosing. Students work on dialog, plotting and scene-building, toward a final project of a 15-to-30-minute short film script. Includes some viewing of short films. Successive studios will not only continue to build skills, but will study, through a rotation of topics, screenwriting. Repeatable: Yes
3 credits
Spring
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CW 345 - Advocacy Seminar
Prerequisites: WTNG 102
Fulfills a course requirement in the Creative Writing Core Concentration
This is a faculty-supervised experiential project-based advocacy course on behalf of detained, imprisoned or missing scholars and/or writers. Projects and skills include research on human rights, academic freedom and global culture, writing (e.g. case dossiers and letters), public presentations, governmental relations. Cases for the class typically extend beyond a single semester. This course can be repeated for elective credit.
1 - 3 credits
Fall, Spring
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CW 430 - Special Topics
Prerequisites: A 200 or 300 level Writing course; CW 210 , and CW 220
Fulfills a course requirement in the Creative Writing Core Concentration.
To enhance the variety of upper level offerings, this breadth course studies specific subjects that are outside the standard creative writing curriculum. Topics offered on a rotating basis include, but are not limited to the following: Adaptation: From Words to Pictures; Linguistics for the Writer; Nonfiction Sports Writing; Humorous Nonfiction; A Life’s Work: Studying a Major Writer; Region and Craft: How Place Shapes Writing. The course but not the topic may be repeated for credit
3 credits
Fall, Spring
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CW 450 - Literary Publishing
Prerequisites: At least second semester sophomore status
Fulfills requirement in CW major, minor, and concentration.
Note: N/A
Delivery: Studio
This course offers students opportunities to develop and apply real-world skills in publishing towards the production of a high-quality national art & literary magazine. This class seeks dedicated students from across disciplines to be responsible for all levels of magazine production from maintaining up-to-date records, and designing ad copy, print magazine layout, and a Web site, to slushing submissions, proofreading, copy editing, corresponding with authors, and distributing the final product. Through demonstrated achievement and commitment, students may rise through the following ranks over time: Editorial Assistant, Assistant Poetry Editor, Assistant Fiction Editor, Assistant Production Editor, Managing Editor. This course may be taken more than once for credit.
3 credits
Fall and Spring
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CW 451 - Advocacy Seminar
Prerequisites: WTNG 102
Fulfills a requirement in the CW major and minor.
Delivery: Studio
This is a faculty-supervised experiential project-based advocacy course on behalf of detained, imprisoned or missing scholars and/or writers. Projects and skills include research on human rights, academic freedom and global culture, writing (e.g. case dossiers and letters), public presentations, governmental relations. Cases for the class typically extend beyond a single semester. This course can be repeated for elective credit.
Fall and Spring
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CW 480 - Creative Writing Capstone
Prerequisites: CW-major senior status or instructor permission
Fulfills a requirement in the CW major.
Delivery: Lec/Lab
The Creative Writing Capstone brings the members of the graduating class of creative writing majors together in a culminating community-centered experience that is a combination seminar-studio. The Capstone provides students the opportunity to discuss and participate in the writing life at an elevated level, duly representative of their course of study in the major. While students will work on their respective creative projects, the class does not distinguish among poetry, prose, or screenwriting. The Capstone prepares students for public presentation of their creative work, guides in articulating matters of craft and aesthetics, and assists with professional practice and career preparation. The culminating artifacts will be the final portfolio and the public reading.
3 credits
Spring
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CJS 105 - Introduction to Criminal Justice
Prerequisites: None
An overview of the American criminal justice system. Discusses in detail the individual components of the criminal justice system, including the police, the courts, and corrections. Designed not only to provide basic understanding of our legal system, but also to provoke thinking on key legal and criminal justice issues such as the death penalty and mandatory sentencing laws.
3 credits
Fall, Spring
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CJS 106 - Applied Concepts in Justice Studies
Prerequisites: None
This course seeks to provide students with a better understanding of the relationship between criminal justice and legal studies, the place of justice studies within the university curriculum, and the role of these fields in American society. Within this context, the course has the general goal of improving students’ ability to think, write, and speak about justice studies. Specific topics for the focus of these activities include the literature of criminal justice and the law, becoming facile with the language and terminology in the field, ethics and academic integrity, and the meaning of justice in America and the world.
3 credits
Spring
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CJS 150 - Policing in America
Prerequisites: None
Review of the history of policing and police functioning, with regard to contemporary social issues. Special focus on related research into police functioning.
3 credits
Spring
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CJS 200 - Introduction to Criminalistics
Prerequisites: None
Offered only through the School of Continuing Studies. Instruction in the collection and preservation of physical evidence found at a crime scene.
3 credits
Fall, Spring
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CJS 201 - Substantive Criminal Law
Prerequisites: CJS 105
An introductory analysis of substantive criminal law, emphasizing common law and modern statutory applications of criminal law. Course topics include the nature of substantive law, the distinction between the criminal and civil justice systems, the elements of crimes, and the essential components of crimes including wrongful criminal acts (actus reus), criminal intent (mens rea), causation and harm. This course also considers the insanity defense, entrapment and several other defenses to crimes that are used in the U.S. legal system.
3 credits
Fall
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CJS 203 - Criminal Procedure
Prerequisites: CJS 105 or permission of instructor
Considers the development of procedural due process in the United States. Analyzes in detail United States Supreme Court decisions in Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Amendment cases. Course topics include search and seizure, the right to be free from self-incrimination, double jeopardy, the right to counsel, the right to a speedy and public trial, and other aspects of procedural due process.
3 credits
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CJS 204 - Constitutional Law
Prerequisites: CJS 105 or LS 101
An analysis of civil liberties and civil rights in the United States. Course topics include religious liberty, free speech, equal protection of law, the right to privacy, and due process of law.
3 credits
Spring
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CJS 207 - Law and Family
Prerequisites: CJS 105
The course examines the nature of the relationship between the law and families in the United States. The course focuses on an analysis of how the law structures marital and familial relationships and how, in turn, society’s changing definitions and conceptions of marriage and family impacts both criminal and civil law. The course examines the proper boundaries of state intervention in people’s most private relationships and highlights how family law and changes in family law both shape and reflect some of society’s most strongly held social values. Topics include marital privacy, child-parent relationships, divorce, child support and custody, domestic violence, and intra-family crime.
3 credits
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CJS 210 - Law of Evidence
Prerequisites: CJS 105 , CJS 201
An analysis of common law and the rules of evidence applicable in criminal cases including presumptions and inferences, direct and circumstantial evidence, relevance, the hearsay rule and its exceptions, character evidence, and the rape shield statutes.
3 credits
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CJS 212 - Police Community Relations
Prerequisites: CJS 150 ; ANSOC 105 recommended
An analysis of the theory, procedures and practices associated with the police functions of service, maintenance of order, and crime reduction within the community. Topics include the role of the police in a changing society, police discretion, and community relations in the context of our changing culture.
3 credits
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CJS 216 - Organized Crime
Prerequisites: CJS 105
An in-depth study of organized crime in the United States. Examines sociological theories and trends in an attempt to understand the reasons for the existence of organized crime. Attention also given to policies and practices of law enforcement in response to organized crime.
3 credits
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CJS 218 - Comparative Criminal Justice
Prerequisites: CJS 105 ; or consent of instructor
Fulfills an Elective requirement for the major in Criminal Justice.
This course adopts a comparative perspective in the examination of criminal justice systems in several countries. By comparing criminal justice systems outside the U.S. with our own criminal justice system, students become aware of the wide range of legal traditions that exist across the world, and come to understand the impact that history, culture and tradition have on the development of substantive and procedure criminal law. The course also examines the impact of international and transnational crime on society, and the increasing need for international cooperation in addressing crimes such as drug trafficking, human trafficking, and terrorism. The course also introduces students to the International Criminal Court, and its role in prosecuting states and individuals accused of genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity.
3 credits
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CJS 254 - Survey of Methods in Criminal Justice
Prerequisites: CJS 105
This course is an introduction to the methodology, design, and research techniques used in the fields of criminal justice and criminology. Course topics include sampling, research designs, ethical considerations in research, survey construction, interviewing and proposal writing.
Spring
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CJS 305 - Drugs, Society, and Behavior
Prerequisites: CJS 105
Issues related to the use and abuse of drugs in American society. Topics include effects of drugs on the human nervous system; addictions and their treatments; legalization; the social and political meanings of abuse, addiction, rehabilitation; and education/prevention methodologies.
3 credits
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CJS 307 - Violence and the Family
Prerequisites: CJS 105
This course examines the historical roots of domestic violence, society’s evolving responses and costs of domestic violence as well as the role of the criminal justice field.
3 credits
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CJS 308 - Criminology
Prerequisites: CJS 105
Examines classical and contemporary criminological theories, their historical development and empirical basis, as well as their significance to the criminal justice process and the rehabilitation, deterrence, processing, and punishment of offenders.
3 credits
Fall
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CJS 320 - Civil and Criminal Procedure in the US Courts
Prerequisites: None
This course examines the history, traditions, philosophy and ethical dilemmas underlying the courts in the United States justice system. Students will be introduced to: the origins and developments of the United States courts; the issues of subject matter and geographic jurisdiction of the state and federal courts, the dynamics of the courthouse workgroups consisting of attorneys, judges, and litigants; and the processes related to the prosecution of criminal and civil cases in federal and state courts.
3 credits
Spring
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CJS 322 - Police Administration
Prerequisites: None
Offered only through the School of Continuing Studies. Principles of administration, management, organization structure, and the responsibilities and interrelationships of administrative and line-and-staff services. Analyzes the functional divisions of a modern police operation in its application to the public safety needs of the community, consideration of alternative and comparative models of law enforcement organization.
3 credits
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CJS 330 - Corrections in the United States
Prerequisites: CJS 105 ; or consent of instructor
Current correctional thought and practices in the United States, the evolution of modern correctional practices in the United States, and an overview of correctional treatment in different types of institutions and in the community.
3 credits
Fall
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CJS 331 - Special Problems in Corrections Administration
Prerequisites: CJS 330
Problems in developing correctional programs within the institution and in the community. Topics include prisons and prisoners; old and new prison designs; the emerging rights of prisoners; the development of community corrections as a new expression of the community’s concern for the incarcerated; and specialized kinds of programs for persons who are in need of supportive services while their freedom of movement is denied.
3 credits
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CJS 332 - Community Based Corrections
Prerequisites: CJS 330
Addresses the origins, features, and problems associated with probation and parole as background to the presentation of model programs. Topics include investigation and classification of participants; community protection rehabilitation; rules of supervision; and the benefits and drawbacks of these systems; intermediate interdiction programs, including intensive supervision, electronic monitoring, community service systems, and shock incarceration projects.
3 credits
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CJS 342 - Legal Psychology
Prerequisites: PSYCH 100 and CJS 105
The application of social science research methods and psychological knowledge to contemporary issues in the criminal justice system. Topics include: eyewitness memory, scientific jury selection, police identification procedures, jury decision making, credibility of witness testimony, the social scientist as an expert witness, and research methods used by legal psychologists.
3 credits
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CJS 402 - Women and the Criminal Justice System
Prerequisites: CJS 105 , CJS 308
A detailed study of crime and justice as it pertains to the female offender. Examines the variations and patterns in female criminality, women’s victimization, and women’s experiences in the criminal justice system as victims, offenders and employees, and theoretical interpretations of female criminality.
3 credits
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CJS 403 - Juvenile Justice
Prerequisites: CJS 105 , CJS 308 ; CJS 320 recommended
Addresses problems and issues pertaining to youth offenders and how they are processed by the police, courts, and corrections. Features the interrelatedness of theory, policies and practices, as well as assessment of their long-range impact on procedures. Focuses on the intake and court process; nominal and conditional sanctions to include community-based intervention; diversion; probation; and custodial sanctions through juvenile correctional systems.
3 credits
Fall
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CJS 405 - Introduction to Criminal Investigation
Prerequisites: CJS 105 , CJS 201
An overview of criminal investigative techniques. This course will explore the lawful reconstruction and successful investigation of a crime using three primary sources of information: physical evidence, records, and people. Areas of study include: investigating crimes against persons and property, crime scene evidence, witness interviews and interrogations, case preparation, and the role of the investigator in the judicial process.
3 credits
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CJS 406 - Crime and Punishment
Prerequisites: CJS 105 , CJS 308
A historical overview of the ways in which people have been punished for their crimes. Special focus will be given to the theoretical foundations of punishment, methods of punishment, famous criminals, and the death penalty.
3 credits
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CJS 407 - Terrorism
Prerequisites: CJS 105 , CJS 308
This course will cover all aspects of terrorism. It will explore anti- and counter-terrorism methods in depth. Topics will include the organization and operation of terrorists, their goals, financing, exploration and the role of the media. An in-depth examination of the most violent terrorist acts will allow students to gain insight and knowledge of how the acts occurred as well as the errors made that could have prevented them. It will include acts of domestic terrorism including the Bombing of the World Trade Center, Murrah Federal Building, and the violence that is occurring in schools. The class will follow events as they occur and examine the predictions of experts.
3 credits
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CJS 408 - Social Justice
Prerequisites: CJS 105 , CJS 106
Social Justice investigates the relationships among and between social policy, the concept of justice and the practice of the criminal justice system. This course examines how social policy pursues different potential visions of social justice and how those visions are defined. Race, ethnicity, gender, power and marginalization issues will be addressed, particularly with regard to how those realities are affected by and how they affect the criminal justice system. Inequality and the relatively new concept of restorative justice will be examined as a means of addressing both real and perceived inequities within the criminal justice system.
3 credits
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CJS 410 - Independent Study
Prerequisites: None
Students may choose to work independently with a Criminal Justice faculty member on a topic chosen by the student and the faculty member. This work may involve directed reading and weekly meetings and/or an intensive directed research project.
3 credits
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CJS 420 - Justice Studies Capstone
Cross-Listed with: LS 420
Prerequisites: Senior standing or permission of the instructor
This is a Capstone course for the justice studies major. Students integrate knowledge of theoretical concepts and practical application of research methods, writing for the legal and criminal justice professions, and selected specialty areas in the law and criminal justice through assigned readings, seminar discussion, and the completion of assigned projects.
3 credits
Spring
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CJS 424 - Securing the Homeland
Prerequisites: CJS 105 , CJS 106 , CJS 308 or consent of instructor
Critical analysis of homeland security perspectives, practices, and strategies through a broad review of systemic social (dis)organization including the criminal justice role, education/training, media, and community processes.
3 credits
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CJS 426 - Disaster Management and Relief
Prerequisites: CJS 105 , CJS 106 , CJS 308 , CJS 424 , or consent of the instructor
Review of the best international practices employed in managing disaster and providing relief from terrorist or other criminal attacks. Scientifically informed approaches toward individual and community response, and government/law enforcement challenges and successes will be examined.
3 credits
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CJS 427 - Youth Gangs
Prerequisites: CJS 105 , CJS 308 or permission of instructor
This course is intended to give students a foundation in core issues related to the topic of youth gangs in the United States. The course will provide students with a historical perspective of gangs; identify the challenges associated with defining gangs, and the related challenges with measuring the prevalence of gangs and gang crime in the United States. The course will also cover theoretical explanations for the causes of gangs and the effectiveness of different system responses intended to prevent gangs.
3 credits
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CJS 428 - Crime Prevention
Prerequisites: CJS 105 , or URBN 100
This course will examine the theoretical basis and application of crime prevention techniques, with an emphasis on routine activity theory, rational choice, crime patterns, defensible space, crime prevention through environmental design and situational crime prevention. A wide range of problems and potential solutions will be explored. The strengths, weaknesses, and ethics of crime prevention approaches will also be assessed.
3 credits
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CJS 429 - Criminal Law Cases and Controversies
Prerequisites: CJS 201
This course is a seminar on current topics in the criminal law. By focusing on criminal cases that are before the courts and criminal laws that are the subject of legislative activity, the course gives students an opportunity to apply their knowledge of crime to factual situations that are in the news. It also examines the extent to which criminal laws impact individual behavior and public policy. Students are expected to have a basic understanding of substantive criminal law.
3 credits
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CJS 430 - Special Topics in Criminal Justice
Prerequisites: None
Study of special topics in criminal justice.
3 credits
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CJS 450 - Research in Criminal Justice
Prerequisites: None
This course is open to students pursuing research on a specific topic in criminal justice. Students may work on an existing/ongoing faculty-led project or may work on an original, student-led project. Permission of criminal justice faculty research advisor is required to register for this course. This course may be repeated for credit
1-3 credits
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CJS 469 - Justice Studies Practicum
Prerequisites: Completion of 60 credits and consent of internship coordinator
The Justice Studies Practicum is a combined field experience and academic seminar course, in which the field component is oriented toward the student’s career and professional development while the academic component requires students to relate their conceptual classroom learning to practical application in the field. This course may be taken for a maximum of six credit hours and is open to Criminal Justice and Legal Studies majors.
3 credits
Fall, Spring, Summer
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CJS 501 - Criminal Justice System Overview
Prerequisites: None
An analysis of the criminal justice system in the United States, focusing on the police, the courts and the corrections system. Controversial issues facing the justice system are considered in detail.
3 credits
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CJS 503 - Survey of Research Methods
Prerequisites: None
An introduction to methodology, design and research techniques in the behavioral sciences. Course topics include sampling theory, hypothesis development and theory construction.
3 credits
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