Dr. Carlie's Intersession Courses
Every year I typically offer four different one-week long, one-credit hour intersession courses. Please join me if any of the following topics are of interest to you. Depending upon which ones are being taught in any given semester, you can enroll in any or all of them (no prerequisites needed). Any or all of the courses listed below may be used as a general elective and/or as part of a student's CRM major or minor.
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CRM 301 -
Crime and the Media (1)
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Usually offered both Winter (January) and Fall (August) Intercessions.
Crime and the Media is a five-night course that meets from 6:00 p.m. to 9:40 p.m. Time flies in this course. The first evening is spent learning about research findings related to the impact of the media on public attitudes and social policies about crime and criminal justice. This discussion sets the tone for the remainder of the course.
During the remaining class meetings we watch several popular motion pictures and observe the way in which they portray crime and justice in America. In addition to class lectures, students are involved in guided small-group discussion and debates as they focus on the media portrayals and their impact upon the observer and American social policy related to crime and justice.
The media we observe have been chosen to show how offenders, police, the courts, corrections, and victims are portrayed. The point of the course is that the public, often mistaking what they see in the movies as the truth, support social policies based upon those perceptions. It is little wonder why many of the policies we have in force are not working effectively.
Grading is based upon student performance on a lecture
exam (covering all of the research findings we discuss the beginning of
each class period), attendance, and a paper on the students' perception
of the impact of the media on social policy regarding crime and justice.
CRM
302 - Reforming America's Prisons (1)
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America's prisons are both the best and worst of all prisons. Although inmates in the United States have many rights, they also live in a prison-based social system which cries out for reform. The conditions under which most inmates live result in making the transition back to life in free society even more difficult. Rather than making inmates less deviant and more law-abiding, the prison experience produces even more lawless individuals.
Join me as we explore the beginnings of the prison as a means of responding to deviants, the condition of America's prisons as compared to prisons in other countries, and some ideas for improving the conditions found in American prisons. There's lots of time for discussion and debate and, hopefully, you'll have a much better sense of what American prisons are about when you complete the course.
Grades in this course is determined by attendance and performance on
tests based upon required readings and lectures.
CRM
6:00-9:30 p.m.
Few of the courses I teach draw as much interest as does this course. We will explore the issue of the death penalty from a variety of perspectives - including yours. Debates, lectures, and discussions based upon video presentations and a reasonable amount of required reading form the core of this timely and interesting course.
We'll take a look at the death penalty throughout history, the variety of ways in which people have been executed, the newest technique (lethal injection), and explore the demographic characteristics of the folks who are on death row.
Grades in this course is determined by attendance and performance on tests based upon required readings and lectures.
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