2017-2018 Undergraduate Bulletin

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 resourcesSample 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

ANT 208Urban Anthropology

3

ANT 210/PSY 210/SOC 210Sex and Culture

3

ANT 330American Cultural Pluralism and the Law

3

ANT 340Anthropology and the Abnormal

3

ANT 450/SOC 450Majors Works in Deviance and Social Control

3

Total Credit Hours: 15

Part Two. Interdisciplinary Core

Required

STA 250Principles and Methods of Statistics

3

ANT 325Ethnographic 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 110Drug Use & Abuse

3

ANT 224/PHI 224/PSY 224/SOC 224Death, Dying and Society: A Life Crises Management Issue

3

ANT 319Anthropology of Global Health

3

LLS 265/HIS 265Class, Race and Family in Latin American History

3

PSY 234Psychology of Human Sexuality

3

PSY 255Group Dynamics in Chemical Dependency Counseling

3

PSY 266Understanding Addiction through Research

3

PSY 268Therapeutic Interventions in Chemical Dependency

3

PSY 331/CSL 331Assessment and Clinical Evaluation in Chemical Dependency Counseling

3

PSY 332Psychology of Adolescence

3

PSY 336Group Dynamics

3

PSY 342/CSL 342Introduction to Counseling Psychology

3

PSY 350/CSL 350Advanced Topics in Chemical Dependency Counseling

3

PSY 375Family Conflict and the Family Court

3

PSY 480Ethical and Professional Issues in Chemical Dependency Counseling

3

SOC 110/ANT 110Drug Use & Abuse (was Drug & Alcohol Use & Abuse)

3

SOC 160Social Aspects of Alcohol Abuse

3

SOC 161Chemical Dependency and the Dysfunctional Family

SOC 380Sociology Laboratory in Dispute Resolution Skill Building

3

SOC 435Current Controversies in Alcoholism and Substance Abuse

3

B. Crime, Deviance, Institutions and Culture

AFR 210Drugs and Crime in Africa

3

AFR 232/LLS 232Comparative Perspectives on Crime in the Caribbean

3

ANT 230Culture and Crime

3

ANT 315Systems of Law

3

ANT 317Anthropology of Development

3

ANT 328/ENG 328Forensic Linguistics: Language as Evidence in the Courts

3

ANT 345/PSY 345Culture, Psychopathology and Healing

3

ANT 347Structural Violence & Social Suffering

3

COR 101Introduction to Corrections

3

COR 201The Law and Institutional Treatment

3

COR 202The Administration of Correctional Programs for Juveniles

3

COR 250Rehabilitation of the Offender

3

ECO 170Crime, Class, Capitalism: The Economics of Justice

3

ECO 215Economics of Regulation and the Law

3

ECO 315/PSC 315An Economic Analysis of Crime

3

HIS 224A History of Crime in New York City

3

HIS 320Topics in the History of Crime & Punishment in U.S (was History of Crime & Punishment in U.S.)

3

POL 250International Law and Justice

3

POL 375Law, Order, Justice and Society

3

PSC 101Introduction to Police Studies

3

PSC 201Police Organization and Administration

3

PSC 235Women in Policing

3

PSY 242Abnormal Psychology

3

PSY 370/LAW 370Psychology and the Law

3

PSY 372Psychology of Criminal Behavior

3

PSY 373Correctional Psychology

3

SOC 203Criminology

3

SOC 216Probation and Parole: Theoretical and Practical Approaches

3

SOC 240Social Deviance

3

SOC 301Penology

3

SOC 308The Sociology of Violence

3

C. Individual and Group Identities and Inequalities

AFR 220Law and Justice in Africa

3

AFR 237Institutional Racism

3

AFR 250Political Economy of Racism

3

ANT 212Applied Anthropology

3

ANT 220Language and Culture

3

ANT 324Anthropology of Work

3

ANT 332Class, Race, Ethnicity and Gender in Anthropological Perspective

3

HIS 214Immigration and Ethnicity in the United States

3

LAW 313/POL 313The Law and Politics of Race Relations

3

LLS 220Human Rights and Law in Latin America

3

LLS 241Latina/os & the City

3

LLS 250Drugs, Crime and Law in Latin America

3

LLS 255Latin American Woman in Global Society

3

LLS 261/HIS 261Revolution and Social Change in Contemporary Latin America

3

LLS 267/AFR 267/HIS 267History of Caribbean Migrations to the United States

3

LLS 321Puerto Rican/Latina/o Community Fieldwork

4

LLS 322Latina/o Struggles for Civil Rights & Social Justice

3

LLS 325Latina/o Experience of Criminal Justice

3

POL 320International Human Rights

3

PSY 333Psychology of Gender

3

PSY 336Group Dynamics

3

SOC 215Social Control and Gender: Women in American Society

3

SOC 309Juvenile Delinquency

3

SOC 314Theories of Social Order

3

SOC 351Crime and Delinquency in Asia

3

SOC 420/CRJ 420Women and Crime

3

Total Credit Hours: 12

Total Credit Hours: 33