Bulletin - John Jay College Of Criminal Justice - CUNY

Courses Offered
LAW 420 Contemporary Administration and the
Judiciary (Same course as PAD 420)
3 hours, 3 credits
Study of emerging trends and issues in the administration of the
courts, and the emerging role of the judiciary in the administration of
programs in the public and private sectors. Examination of the
literature of traditional court administration, as well as from areas of
judicial intervention, such as corrections, school desegregation,
mental health and foster care. Review of the history of judicial
approaches to the administrative process, with focus on the forms of
intervention and the substantive issues raised.
Prerequisites: PAD 360, and ENG 102 or ENG 201
LEGAL STUDIES (see Major
description for contact)
LGS 420 Senior Seminar in Legal Studies
3 hours, 3 credits
Designed for students in their last semester to participate in a
systematic interdisciplinary inquiry into major issues in law and legal
administration. Faculty from the humanities and social sciences will
join with faculty members in law in developing a wide range of
seminars. Each semester seniors may select from such offerings as:
The Historical Perspective on Constitutional Interpretation; Law and
Social and Economic Change; The Impact of Management
Information Systems on Legal Administration; Jurisprudence: From
Antiquity to Present; The Anglo-American Legal Tradition; Problems
in Judicial Administration. Students will be required to deliver a
senior lecture and submit a comprehensive research paper.
Prerequisites: ENG 102 or ENG 201, and LAW 350
LITERATURE (Department of English)
LIT 203 New York City in Literature
3 hours, 3 credits
An examination of literary works set in New York City exploring the
city's strengths — its sophistication, its diversity, its intellectual
resources and institutions, its freedom and its anonymity, as well as
the social and psychological problems facing its inhabitants.
Prerequisite: ENG 102 or ENG 201
LIT 212 Literature of the African World
3 hours, 3 credits
Literature of the African World is a critical examination of exciting
literary voices from Africa, the Caribbean and North America.
Authors such as Wole Soyinka, Ngui wa Thiong’o, Buchi Emecheta,
Derek Walcott, Leopold Senghor, Michelle Cliff, Louise Bennett,
Toni Morrison, Octavia Butler, Alice Walker, Gloria Naylor,
Reginald McKnight and August Wilson, give the course its unique
flavor. The readings in short fiction, prose, poetry and drama, which
explore thematic concerns such as tradition vs. modernity,
colonialism, rites of passage, and oral narrative traditions, enable
students to gain an indispensable diasporic perspective that will
enlarge their view of themselves, their world and literature.
Prerequisite: ENG 102 or ENG 201
LIT 219 The Word as Weapon
3 hours, 3 credits
Is the pen mightier than the sword An examination of the writer's
approach to correcting society's ills. Readings in satire, invective,
polemics, burlesque, lampoon and muckraking by such writers as
Swift, Dickens, Mark Twain, Sinclair Lewis and Joseph Heller.
Students also write satires of their own.
Prerequisites: ENG 102 or ENG 201, and one of the following: LIT
230, LIT 231, LIT 232, or LIT 233
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