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[email protected] SPRING 2022 - COURSE LISTINGS Please refer to the online schedule on CLASS-Web to access course section details and the course record numbers (CRNs) for registration. ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE AJ 50 INTRO TO ADMIN OF JUSTICE 3.0 Units History and philosophy of administration of justice in America; recapitulation of the system; identifying the various subsystems, role expectations, and their interrelationships; theories of crime, punishment, and rehabilitation; ethics, education and training for professionalism in the system. AJ 55 INTRO TO CORRECTIONAL SCIENCE 3.0 Units Aspects of modern correctional process as utilized in rehabilitation of adult and juvenile offenders. Emphasis on custody, rehabilitation, and treatment programs as recognized by modern penology. Exploration of career opportunities. AJ 60 CRIMINAL LAW 3.0 Units Historical development, philosophy of law and constitutional provisions, definitions, classification of crime, and their application to the system of administration of justice; frequently used Penal Code and other code sections; case law, methodology, and concepts of law as a social force. AJ 61 EVIDENCE 3.0 Units Origin, development, philosophy and constitutional basis of evidence; constitutional and procedural considerations affecting arrest, search and seizure; kinds and degrees of evidence and rules governing admissibility; judicial decisions interpreting individual rights and case studies. AJ 66 JUVENILE PROCEDURES 3.0 Units This course is an examination of the origin, development, and organization of the juvenile justice system as it evolved in the U.S. justice system. The course explores the theories that focus on juvenile law, courts and processes, and the constitutional protections extended to juveniles in the U.S justice system. Strongly Recommended: ENG 1A with a minimum grade of C AJ 68 POLICE ETHICS AND LEADERSHIP 3.0 Units This course will explore the ethical, legal and moral complexities of law enforcement in a democracy. From the initial application process and background investigation of a potential law enforcement recruit, to the working law enforcement officer, the course will examine society’s need for ethical behavior and leadership by law enforcement agencies and the personal commitment to ethical behavior and ethical leadership by individual law enforcement officers, both on the job and in their private lives. AJ 70 COMMUNITY RELATIONS 3.0 Units This course examines the complex, dynamic relationship between communities and the justice system in addressing crime and conflict with an emphasis on the challenges and prospects of administering justice within a diverse multicultural population. Topics may include the consensus and conflicting values in Culture, Religion, and Law. AMERICAN SIGN LANGUAGE ASL 1A AMERICAN SIGN LANGUAGE I 3.0 Units Introduction to American Sign Language (ASL) including expressive and receptive sign, the manual alphabet, facial expression, and body gestures. Emphasis on conversational skills in functional situations, knowledge of Deaf culture and the Deaf community. ASL 1B AMERICAN SIGN LANGUAGE II 3.0 Units Continued development of American Sign Language (ASL) receptive/ expressive skills and knowledge learned in ASL 1A. Emphasis on conversational skills in functional situations, continued vocabulary and sentence structure expansion, and knowledge of Deaf culture and the Deaf community. Prerequisite: ASL 1A with a minimum grade of C ASL 2B AMERICAN SIGN LANGUAGE IV 3.0 Units Further development of American Sign Language (ASL) receptive/ expressive skills and knowledge learned in ASL 2A. Emphasis on conversational skills in functional situations, continued expansion of vocabulary and knowledge of Deaf culture and the Deaf community. Prerequisite: ASL 2A with a minimum grade of C ANTHROPOLOGY ANTR 1 BIOLOGICAL ANTHROPOLOGY 3.0 Units This course introduces the concepts, methods of inquiry, and scientific explanations for biological evolution and their application to the human species. Issues and topics will include, but are not limited to, genetics, evolutionary theory, human variation and biocultural adaptations, comparative primate anatomy and behavior, and the fossil evidence for human evolution. The scientific method serves as foundation of the course. The course may include a lab component. Strongly Recommended: Eligibility for ENG 1A ANTR 1L BIOLOGICAL ANTHROPOLOGY LAB 1.0 Units This laboratory course is offered as a supplement to Introduction to Biological Anthropology either taken concurrently or in a subsequent term. Laboratory exercises are designed to introduce students to the scientific method and explore genetics, human variation, human and non-human primate anatomy and behavior, the primate/hominin fossil record and other resources to investigate processes that affect human evolution. Prerequisite: ANTR 1 with a minimum grade of C (May be taken concurrently) Strongly Recommended: Eligibility for ENG 1A ANTR 2 INTRODUCTION TO ARCHAEOLOGY 3.0 Units This course is an introduction to the study of concepts, theories, data and models of anthropological archaeology that contribute to our knowledge of the human past. The course includes a discussion of the nature of scientific inquiry; the history and interdisciplinary nature of archaeological research; dating techniques; methods of survey, excavation, analysis, and interpretation; cultural resource management; professional ethics; and selected cultural sequences. Strongly Recommended: Eligibility for ENG 1A ANTR 3 CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY 3.0 Units This course explores how anthropologists study and compare human culture. Cultural anthropologists seek to understand the broad arc of human experience focusing on a set of central issues: how people around the world make their living (subsistence patterns); how they organize themselves socially, politically and economically; how they communicate; how they relate to each other through family and kinship ties; what they believe about the world (belief systems); how they express themselves creatively (expressive culture); how they make distinctions among themselves such as through applying gender, racial and ethnic identity labels; how they have shaped and been shaped by social inequalities such as colonialism; and how they navigate culture change and processes of globalization that affect us all. Ethnographic case studies highlight these similarities and Scan here to visit the current Spring 2022 class schedule online