Culture and Deviance Studies, Bachelor of Arts
The major in Culture and Deviance Studies is designed to provide students with a basic interdisciplinary understanding of deviance as a concept of difference and diversity within the framework of cross-cultural research, and how deviance has been related to important social problems and institutional responses to treat and control them. This foundation is enhanced by a comprehensive and critical understanding of cultural variation and macro– and micro–social and historical contexts, as these apply to human conflict. This major also teaches students the ethnographic and ethnological perspectives and skills used in professional field research, while maintaining strong interdisciplinary content. The Culture and Deviance Studies major prepares students to be professionally effective in diverse and challenging fields, including social services, protective and corrective services, probation, parole, community reintegration and treatment. The research, writing, and interdisciplinary theoretical training provide majors with the background necessary for graduate programs in social work, law, or the social sciences. The core requirements pertain to theory, ethnographic methods, cross–cultural research and analysis, while electives demonstrate applications of both theory and method to particular problems.
Learning Outcomes. Students will:
- Understand and appreciate culture and diversity in all their dynamic complexity, exploring the subject at the level of the individual and at the level of whole societies.
- Understand social science conceptions of deviance including how the study of deviance has shifted with theoretical and political developments.
- Develop and refine communication skills, including writing, oral presentation, and data presentation in various formats.
- Demonstrate experience in carrying out a research project (fieldwork-based, or library-based) that includes: formulating and justifying a research question, collecting and analyzing data, and articulating conclusions.
- Be prepared to work in fields that require: a nuanced perception of cultural difference; the ability to analyze and interpret culture; and the ability to integrate multiple threads of inquiry into a comprehensive whole.
Credits Required.
Culture and Deviance Studies Major (or more depending on math placement)
|
33 |
| General Education |
42 |
| Electives |
45 |
| Total Credits Required for B.A. Degree |
120 |
Prerequisites. ANT 101 and SOC 101. These courses fulfill the College’s general education requirements in the Flexible Core: World Cultures and Global Issues and Flexible Core: Individual and Society areas respectively. Depending on math placement, students may need to take MAT 105 and/or MAT 108 (or MAT 141) as prerequisites for the required statistics course, STA 250.
Coordinator. Professor Edward Snajdr, Department of Anthropology (212.237.8262, esnajdr@jjay.cuny.edu)
Advising resources. Sample Four-year Plan of Study. Culture & Deviance Studies Major Advising Resources.
Additional information. Students who enrolled for the first time at the College or changed to this major in September 2015 or thereafter must complete the major in the form presented here. Students who enrolled prior to that date may choose the form shown here or the earlier version of the major. A copy of the earlier version may be obtained in the 2014–2015 Undergraduate Bulletin.
Part One. Anthropology Core
Required
Total Credit Hours: 15
Part Two. Interdisciplinary Core
Required
| STA 250 | Principles and Methods of Statistics | 3 |
| ANT 325 | Ethnographic Research Methods in Anthropology | 3 |
Total Credit Hours: 6
Part Three. Interdisciplinary Thematic Clusters
Select four of the following courses. Only two may be at the 100-level. (Note: Students are encouraged, but not required, to take at least two courses in one of the clusters below).
The Culture and Deviance Studies major enables students to select thematic clusters both across disciplines and within disciplines. Thus students are advised to consult the College Bulletin course descriptions for specific prerequisite information for particular courses. For example, all GOV, POL, PSC, PSY, and SOC courses require a 101 prerequisite in their respective disciplines. Students are advised to plan their cluster course selections with this in mind. Likewise, some 200-, 300-, and 400-level courses are sequence-based, meaning that the topic and theme is continued at the upper-level, should students wish to pursue further study of a topic or subject. Students wishing to concentrate their courses beyond the anthropology core in psychology should be aware that, for example, PSY 331 requires PSY 266 and PSY 268 as prerequisites. PSY 350 requires PSY 266, PSY 268 as well as PSY 331 as prerequisites. Please note that some concentration courses do not require specific prerequisites beyond the basic 101-level but do require sophomore or junior standing or permission of the instructor.
A. Abuse, Interpersonal Relationships and Human Services
| ANT 110/SOC 110 | Drug Use & Abuse | 3 |
| ANT 224/PHI 224/PSY 224/SOC 224 | Death, Dying and Society: A Life Crises Management Issue | 3 |
| ANT 319 | Anthropology of Global Health | 3 |
| LLS 265/HIS 265 | Class, Race and Family in Latin American History | 3 |
| PSY 234 | Psychology of Human Sexuality | 3 |
| PSY 255 | Group Dynamics in Chemical Dependency Counseling | 3 |
| PSY 266 | Understanding Addiction through Research | 3 |
| PSY 268 | Therapeutic Interventions in Chemical Dependency | 3 |
| PSY 331/CSL 331 | Assessment and Clinical Evaluation in Chemical Dependency Counseling | 3 |
| PSY 332 | Psychology of Adolescence | 3 |
| PSY 336 | Group Dynamics | 3 |
| PSY 342/CSL 342 | Introduction to Counseling Psychology | 3 |
| PSY 350/CSL 350 | Advanced Topics in Chemical Dependency Counseling | 3 |
| PSY 375 | Family Conflict and the Family Court | 3 |
| PSY 480 | Ethical and Professional Issues in Chemical Dependency Counseling | 3 |
| SOC 110/ANT 110 | Drug Use & Abuse (was Drug & Alcohol Use & Abuse) | 3 |
| SOC 160 | Social Aspects of Alcohol Abuse | 3 |
| SOC 161 | Chemical Dependency and the Dysfunctional Family | |
| SOC 380 | Sociology Laboratory in Dispute Resolution Skill Building | 3 |
| SOC 435 | Current Controversies in Alcoholism and Substance Abuse | 3 |
B. Crime, Deviance, Institutions and Culture
| AFR 210 | Drugs and Crime in Africa | 3 |
| AFR 232/LLS 232 | Comparative Perspectives on Crime in the Caribbean | 3 |
| ANT 230 | Culture and Crime | 3 |
| ANT 315 | Systems of Law | 3 |
| ANT 317 | Anthropology of Development | 3 |
| ANT 328/ENG 328 | Forensic Linguistics: Language as Evidence in the Courts | 3 |
| ANT 345/PSY 345 | Culture, Psychopathology and Healing | 3 |
| ANT 347 | Structural Violence & Social Suffering | 3 |
| COR 101 | Introduction to Corrections | 3 |
| COR 201 | The Law and Institutional Treatment | 3 |
| COR 202 | The Administration of Correctional Programs for Juveniles | 3 |
| COR 250 | Rehabilitation of the Offender | 3 |
| ECO 170 | Crime, Class, Capitalism: The Economics of Justice | 3 |
| ECO 215 | Economics of Regulation and the Law | 3 |
| ECO 315/PSC 315 | An Economic Analysis of Crime | 3 |
| HIS 224 | A History of Crime in New York City | 3 |
| HIS 320 | Topics in the History of Crime & Punishment in U.S (was History of Crime & Punishment in U.S.) | 3 |
| POL 250 | International Law and Justice | 3 |
| POL 375 | Law, Order, Justice and Society | 3 |
| PSC 101 | Introduction to Police Studies | 3 |
| PSC 201 | Police Organization and Administration | 3 |
| PSC 235 | Women in Policing | 3 |
| PSY 242 | Abnormal Psychology | 3 |
| PSY 370/LAW 370 | Psychology and the Law | 3 |
| PSY 372 | Psychology of Criminal Behavior | 3 |
| PSY 373 | Correctional Psychology | 3 |
| SOC 203 | Criminology | 3 |
| SOC 216 | Probation and Parole: Theoretical and Practical Approaches | 3 |
| SOC 240 | Social Deviance | 3 |
| SOC 301 | Penology | 3 |
| SOC 308 | The Sociology of Violence | 3 |
C. Individual and Group Identities and Inequalities
| AFR 220 | Law and Justice in Africa | 3 |
| AFR 237 | Institutional Racism | 3 |
| AFR 250 | Political Economy of Racism | 3 |
| ANT 212 | Applied Anthropology | 3 |
| ANT 220 | Language and Culture | 3 |
| ANT 324 | Anthropology of Work | 3 |
| ANT 332 | Class, Race, Ethnicity and Gender in Anthropological Perspective | 3 |
| HIS 214 | Immigration and Ethnicity in the United States | 3 |
| LAW 313/POL 313 | The Law and Politics of Race Relations | 3 |
| LLS 220 | Human Rights and Law in Latin America | 3 |
| LLS 241 | Latina/os & the City | 3 |
| LLS 250 | Drugs, Crime and Law in Latin America | 3 |
| LLS 255 | Latin American Woman in Global Society | 3 |
| LLS 261/HIS 261 | Revolution and Social Change in Contemporary Latin America | 3 |
| LLS 267/AFR 267/HIS 267 | History of Caribbean Migrations to the United States | 3 |
| LLS 321 | Puerto Rican/Latina/o Community Fieldwork | 4 |
| LLS 322 | Latina/o Struggles for Civil Rights & Social Justice | 3 |
| LLS 325 | Latina/o Experience of Criminal Justice | 3 |
| POL 320 | International Human Rights | 3 |
| PSY 333 | Psychology of Gender | 3 |
| PSY 336 | Group Dynamics | 3 |
| SOC 215 | Social Control and Gender: Women in American Society | 3 |
| SOC 309 | Juvenile Delinquency | 3 |
| SOC 314 | Theories of Social Order | 3 |
| SOC 351 | Crime and Delinquency in Asia | 3 |
| SOC 420/CRJ 420 | Women and Crime | 3 |
Total Credit Hours: 12
Total Credit Hours: 33