Course Offerings
Upcoming
Summer 2008
Political Science 543 Topics in Public Administration and Policy: Technology, Social Control and Public Policy This course explores how a "networked" world has bred new crimes and new responses, and investigates how information and communication technology (ICT) has become a tool, a target, and a place of criminal activity and national security threats, as well as a mechanism of response.
This course addresses such questions as how emerging technologies challenge existing laws and criminal procedures; how nation-states regulate criminal conduct across traditional geographic and political boundaries; what reasonable expectations of privacy are in cyberspace; and how control is shifting from traditional mechanisms of law enforcement to new regulatory regimes, including technology.
Fall 2008
Criminal Justice 403 Violence Toward Women Violence toward women and its relationship to broader social issues such as sexism and social control. Sample syllabus
Criminal Justice 504 Quantitative Methods In Political Science and Criminal Justice Applied statistical skills, enabling understanding of substantive political and social questions. Sample syllabus
Criminal Justice 530 Processes and Institutions Process of criminal justice in the context of social, political, and economic environments. Sample syllabus
Criminal Justice 702 Master's Directed Study For master's students researching and writing their thesis or master's essay.
Criminal Justice 800 Doctor's Research/Dissertation For doctoral candidates researching or writing their dissertation.
Political Science 503 Introduction to Political Science Research Methods This is a course on social science research design methods. It will introduce you to important concepts, approaches and methods for conducting and critiquing empirical research about social science problems--especially those that have to do with the criminal justice system. Sample syllabus
Political Science 542 Proseminar in Administration, Justice nd Applied Policy Studies Origin, development, and contemporary issues in political organization and structure in the United States.
Schedules and room assignments may be found here.
Current
Spring 2008
Criminal Justice 420 Criminal procedure
Criminal Justice 541 Seminar in Corrections This course will examine issues related to the implementation and effectiveness of various correctional treatment approaches and programs, including the history, purpose and common targets of correctional treatment interventions; the impact of the correctional environment and legal issues related to treatment; characteristics and responsibilities of correctional treatment staff; and the role of assessment, prediction, and classification in offender treatment.
Topics will also include the major theories underlying individual treatment and behavior change, such as the psychoanalytic, humanistic, radical behavioral, cognitive-behavioral, group and family-based approaches to treatment. The course will also examine treatment interventions for specific populations of offenders, including juvenile offenders, drug-involved offenders, sexual offenders, and mentally ill/disabled offenders. The purpose of this course is not to train students to be correctional counselors, rather the goal is to increase the awareness of correctional treatment approaches and issues often lacking among both criminal justice practitioners and academics.
Criminal Justice 555 Seminar in the Nature of Crime
Criminal Justice 591/592 Seminar in Police Faitigue
Criminal Justice 702 Master's Directed Study For master's students researching and writing their thesis or master's essay.
Criminal Justice 800 Doctor's Research/Dissertation For doctoral candidates researching or writing their dissertation.
Past
Fall 2007
Criminal Justice 403 Violence Toward Women Violence toward women and its relationship to broader social issues such as sexism and social control. Sample syllabus
Criminal Justice 530 Processes and Institutions Process of criminal justice in the context of social, political, and economic environments. Sample syllabus
Criminal Justice 570 The Police and Society Community and selected social institutional factors as related to their influence on police systems.
Criminal Justice 702 Master's Directed Study For master's students researching and writing their thesis or master's essay.
Criminal Justice 800 Doctor's Research/Dissertation For doctoral candidates researching or writing their dissertation.
Political Science 503 Introduction to Political Science Research Methods This is a course on social science research design methods. It will introduce you to important concepts, approaches and methods for conducting and critiquing empirical research about social science problems--especially those that have to do with the criminal justice system. Sample syllabus
Summer 2007
Political Science 533 Topics in Political Psychology: Forensic Psychology This course focuses upon the application and practice of psychology in both the civil and criminal justice systems with the following topics examined in depth: police and investigative psychology, family forensic psychology, psychology of crime and delinquency, victimology and victim services, legal psychology, expert witness testimony, consulting psychology, and correctional psychology.
Spring 2007
Criminal Justice 504 Quantitative Methods In Political Science and Criminal Justice Applied statistical skills, enabling understanding of substantive political and social questions. Sample syllabus
Criminal Justice 591 Seminar in the Administration of Criminal Justice: Sleep and Performance Current issues, problems, and critical concerns within the field of administration of criminal justice; this semester focuses on justice and human performance.
Criminal Justice 592 Seminar in Administration, Justice and Applied Policy Studies: Criminology Analytical perspectives and theoretical issues. Sample syllabus
Criminal Justice 702 Master's Directed Study For master's students researching and writing their thesis or master's essay.
Criminal Justice 800 Doctor's Research/Dissertation For doctoral candidates researching or writing their dissertation.
Political Science 512 Seminar in American Institutions: Judicial Performance Evaluations Origin, development, and contemporary issues in political organization and structure in the United States. Sample syllabus
Schedules and room assignments may be found here.
Contacts
David Brody, JD, PhD
- Campus Academic Director
- E-mail: brody@wsu.edu
- Telephone: 509.358.7952
Rachel Young
- Administrative Assistant
- E-mail: reyoung@wsu.edu
- Telephone: 509.358.7950
Academic Center, Suite 401
Mailing Address
Criminal Justice, WSU Spokane
PO Box 1495
Spokane, WA 99210-1495
Shipping Address
Criminal Justice, WSU Spokane
412 E Spokane Falls Blvd.
Spokane, WA 99202