Bulletin - John Jay College Of Criminal Justice - CUNY

Courses Offered
LLS 321 Puerto Rican/Latina/o Community Fieldwork
6 hours: 2 hours lecture, 4 hours fieldwork; 4 credits
Community organization theory as it applies to the Puerto Rican
communities in the United States. The study of Puerto Rican groups,
agencies, organizations and movements. Students perform
supervised community service and/or study one of the following
areas: 1) work with community groups, agencies, organizations and
movements organized to solve specific community problems; and 2)
work in governmental rehabilitation and adjustment projects.
Prerequisites: ENG 102 or ENG 201, and LLS 241
LLS 322 Civil Rights and Civil Liberties in the Urban
Latina/o Communities
3 hours, 3 credits
Analysis of the Bill of Rights and civil rights legislation on issues of
discrimination in housing, employment, education, welfare, prisons,
immigration and ethnicity/race affecting Latinas/os. This course can
be taken to satisfy requirements for the International Criminal
Justice major.
Prerequisites: ENG 102 or ENG 201, and junior standing or above or
permission of the section instructor
LLS 325 The Latina/o Experience of Criminal Justice
3 hours, 3 credits
The study of how the criminal justice system serves and shapes
Latinas/os, especially those who are processed by it. The analysis of
the interaction that ethnicity has with the system and its effects upon
those who are involved with it.
Prerequisites: ENG 102 or ENG 201, and junior standing or above or
permission of the section instructor
LLS 341 Immigrants, Citizens, Exiles, and Refugees
in the Americas
3 hours, 3 credits
This course explores some of the reasons why people leave their
homelands in Latin America, and examines the relationship between
legal status and access to rights in their new society, the United
States. The course seeks to provide students with both sides of the
immigration debates in the Americas, in order to foster the
conceptual and foundational knowledge necessary to assess some of
the issues at stake for both immigrants and U.S. society.
Prerequisites: ENG 102 or 201, and LLS 242, sophomore standing or
permission of the instructor
LLS 343 Race and Citizenship in the Americas
3 hours, 3 credits
This course explores the relationship between citizenship and racial
ideologies in the Americas. Framed by theoretical analyses of race
and ethnicity, the course uses historical essays, biographies, novels
and films to examine the lived experience of race and blackness in
Latin America and the United States. Focusing on the different
meanings attributed to blackness in the Americas, the course
ultimately aims to compare the diverse racial, class and gendered
experiences of U.S. Latinos with those of ethnic and racialized
groups in Latin America.
Prerequisites: ENG 102 or 201; ETH 123 or ETH 124 or ETH 125,
sophomore standing or permission of the instructor
LLS 356 Terror and Transitional Justice in Latin
America
3 hours, 3 credits
This course explores the field of transitional justice as it addresses
past state violence and genocide. The course will move from an
exploration of background material examining the Cold War years in
Latin America to providing an in-depth analysis of the role played by
truth commissions, and other strategies such as war tribunals, which
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