2023-2024 Undergraduate Bulletin

SSC 215 Writing in Criminal Justice: Bridging Theory and Practice in Research

3 hours

This research-based academic writing course prepares students to write effectively in their upper-level Criminal Justice courses. Focused on empirical writing, students will write about observations and patterns of behavior, investigating how arguments are made in the field of Criminal Justice. They will also learn to make original scientific inquiries, to structure empirical arguments, and to utilize a guided peer-reviewed writing process. This writing course also focuses on recognizing power structures and bias embedded in scholarly research and in the role of the researcher-writer’s position. Overall, the course will prepare students to produce logically organized, complex research-based writing projects within the field of Criminal Justice.

Credits

3

Prerequisite

ENG 201

Notes

This course satisfies the John Jay College Option: Communications area of the Gen Ed Program.