CJUS 500 Graduate Research Methods. 3 Credits

Term Typically Offered: Spring

Prerequisite(s): Admission to Criminal Justice graduate program or consent of instructor.

3cr. Teaches skills needed for collecting and making sense of data in applied settings. Familiarizes students with literature searches, methods of data collection, data analysis, and data interpretation. Emphasizes benefits of and opportunities for data-driven decision making in organizational settings.

Lecture Hours 3

Department: NAS/PS/SOCL

CJUS 501 Criminal Justice Perspectives. 3 Credits

Term Typically Offered: Fall

Prerequisite(s): Admission to Criminal Justice graduate program or consent of instructor.

3cr. Explores theories that explain the functioning of the criminal justice system. Identifies changes in institutional responses to crime and justice, with a focus on important social and policy issues that impact the criminal justice system and its functioning.

Lecture Hours 3

Department: NAS/PS/SOCL

CJUS 505 Criminal Justice Policy. 3 Credits

Term Typically Offered: Spring

Prerequisite(s): Admission to Criminal Justice graduate program or consent of instructor.

3cr. Addresses crime control and crime prevention and policy/practice decisions that arise from the need to address crime and deliver justice. Examines policy and practice in policing, corrections, and the law/courts, with a focus on contemporary issues. Explores justifications, logic, and evidence for specific crime policies, and analyzes the factors that influence policymaking.

Lecture Hours 3

Department: NAS/PS/SOCL

CJUS 510 Multicultural Issues in CJUS. 3 Credits

Term Typically Offered: Spring

Prerequisite(s): Admission to Criminal Justice graduate program or consent of instructor.

3cr. Examines the multitude of racial, ethnic, gender, and cultural issues related to criminal justice in America. Addresses strategies for refining criminal justice systems and practices so that they best meet the needs of our multicultural society.

Lecture Hours 3

Department: NAS/PS/SOCL

CJUS 521 Ethics and Public Policy. 3 Credits

Term Typically Offered: Fall

Prerequisite(s): Admission to Criminal Justice graduate program or consent of instructor.

3cr. Examines the nature and validity of arguments about moral issues in public policy, with an emphasis on issues of crime and justice. Explores different frameworks for understanding justice and crime policy. Encourages students to develop their ability to think in sophisticated ways about morally difficult policy issues.

Lecture Hours 3

Department: NAS/PS/SOCL

CJUS 550 Data Analysis and Management. 3 Credits

Prerequisite(s): Admission to Criminal Justice graduate program or consent of instructor.

3cr. Introduces students to methods for analyzing quantitative criminal justice data. Emphasizes understanding data in relation to key methodological concepts, including units of analysis, variables, measurement, and associations. Covers strategies for presenting data patterns graphically, describing distributions and relationships through summary statistics, and drawing conclusions about sampled populations using inferential statistical methods, including statistical models. Teaches methods for assessing univariate, bivariate and multivariate patterns and relationships.

Lecture Hours 3

Department: NAS/PS/SOCL

CJUS 580 Advanced Crime Theory and Data. 3 Credits

Term Typically Offered: Fall

Prerequisite(s): Admission to Criminal Justice graduate program or consent of instructor.

3cr. Examines important criminological and criminal justice theories as well as common sources of crime data. Encourages use of theory and data to evaluate policy decisions in an applied or criminal justice setting.

Lecture Hours 3

Department: NAS/PS/SOCL

CJUS 591 Special Topics. 3 Credits

Term Typically Offered: Summer

Prerequisite(s): Admission to Criminal Justice graduate program or consent of instructor.

3cr. Encourages in-depth investigation of contemporary issues relevant to the field of criminal justice. Provides students with the opportunity to study of emerging issues or specialized content which are not represented in the main curriculum but may be relevant to their chosen career path.

Lecture Hours 3

Department: NAS/PS/SOCL

CJUS 598 Graduate Internship. 3 Credits

Term Typically Offered: Summer

Prerequisite(s): Consent of instructor.

3cr. Gain first-hand experience in the day-to-day operation of a criminal justice or related agency in government, research, or non-profit settings. Complete 135 hours of work at the internship site. Requires development of an internship contract. Students may not earn internship credit for hours completed as part of their regular employment. Offered ONLY Online.

Department: NAS/PS/SOCL

CJUS 599 Graduate Capstone. 3 Credits

Term Typically Offered: Summer

Prerequisite(s): Consent of instructor.

3cr. Integrates material from core graduate-level criminal justice coursework. Requires that students demonstrate ability to synthesize and apply theory, collect and analyze empirical data, and apply findings to resolve a contemporary issue in criminal justice. Culminates in a graduate-level research paper and presentation.

Lecture Hours 3

Department: NAS/PS/SOCL