SOC 3101H is also offered in Spring 2025
SOC 3101H is also offered in Spring 2024
SOC 3101H is also offered in Fall 2023
SOC 3101H is also offered in Spring 2023
SOC 3101H is also offered in Fall 2022
SOC 3101H is also offered in Fall 2021
Fall 2022 | SOC 3101H Section 001: Honors: Sociological Perspectives on the Criminal Justice System (21464)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- A-F only
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person
- Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
Honors
- Enrollment Requirements:
- honors student
- Meets With:
SOC 3101 Section 001
- Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
Tue,
Thu 02:30PM - 03:45PM
UMTC, West Bank
West Bank Skyway AUDITORIUM
- Enrollment Status:
Open (12 of 13 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- This course introduces students to a sociological account of the U.S. criminal justice system. We will critically examine the components, dynamics, and effects of policing, criminal courts, community supervision, jails, and prisons. Throughout the course, we focus on sociological understandings of these processes, with particular attention to ethnic, racial, class, and gender inequalities as well as long-term problems associated with the high rate of criminal justice supervision in the U.S. Additional special assignments will be discussed with honors participants who seek to earn honors credit toward the end of our first class session. Examples of additional requirements may include: · Honor students will be expected to interview a current Sociology graduate student working on a LCD topic. Following this, each student will individually be expected to do an in-class power-point presentation explaining how the interviewees? research relates with themes presented in the course. Students will also be expected to meet as a group and individually with the professor four times during the course semester. · Sign up and prepare 3-4 discussion questions in advance of at least one class session. · Work with professor and TA on other small leadership tasks (class discussion, paper exchange, tour). · Write two brief (1-page) reflection papers on current news, or a two-page critique of a class reading · Attend a presentation, workshop, or seminar on a related topic for this class and write a 2 page maximum reflective paper. prereq: [SOC 1001] recommended, Sociology majors/minors must register A-F, honors
- Class Notes:
- Click this link for more detailed course information: http://classinfo.umn.edu/?page+SOC3101H+Fall2022
- Class Description:
The goal of this course is to introduce students to sociological perspectives on the criminal justice system. We will critically examine the components, dynamics, and effects of policing, criminal courts, jails, prisons, and the death penalty. We will also explore ongoing efforts to reimagine criminal justice and produce racial justice. Honors students read an extra book and write a memo about it.
- Learning Objectives:
By the end of the course, you will:
1. be able to think critically about law and criminal justice, and
2. have mastery of a significant body of knowledge about how criminal legal institutions work, how they reinforce or counter social inequalities, and alternative visions of justice;
3. have the ability to interpret and evaluate your own ideas and experiences related to law, crime, and justice within a broader sociological context.
- Grading:
- 30% Midterm Exam,
35% Final Exam,
30% Quizzes5% Participation
- Exam Format:
- Essay and short answer (3 quizzes, 1 mid-term, 1 final)
- Class Format:
- 40% Lecture,
5% Film/Video,
50% Discussion,
5% Small Group Activities
- Workload:
- 50-75 Pages Reading Per Week
2 Exam(s)
2 Quiz(zes)
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/21464/1229
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 7 April 2022
ClassInfo Links - Fall 2022 Sociology Classes