Bulletin - John Jay College Of Criminal Justice - CUNY

Certificates, Programs and Minors
Requirements:
• A minimum of 18 credits is required.
• All courses applied to the minor must be courses designated by
the course number prefix specific to security management
(SEC). Courses that are cross-listed in the college bulletin are
acceptable, e.g., Security Management/Mathematics.
• No more than 9 credits applied to a minor may be credits that
the student also uses to fulfill a major.
• At least 6 credits applied to the minor must be in courses at the
300-level or above.
To apply for a minor, the student should complete the Approved Plan
for a Minor Form available from the security management
coordinator and the Department of Protection Management and make
an appointment to meet with the department chairperson for approval.
At the discretion of the chairperson, the student may be referred to
the security management coordinator. Students must bring with them
a copy of their up-to-date John Jay College transcript. Any revision
of the plan requires the completion of a new Approved Plan for a
Minor Form and another approval meeting.
SOCIOLOGY MINOR
Description. The Sociology minor considers the following areas in
the study of modern society: social groups, social organization, the
sociology of institutions such as law, the courts, the family, the
process of interaction, social disorganization and change. Topics
such as violence, delinquency, deviant behavior, social control, and
ethnic, race and class relations are central to the minor concentration.
Issues of culture, personality and urbanization are studied.
Minor coordinator. Professor Douglas Thompkins, Department of
Sociology (212.484.1118, dthompkins@jjay.cuny.edu)
Requirements: Students wishing to minor in Sociology must
complete 18 credits (six courses) at the 200-level or above. No more
than half of these credits may be used to satisfy credit requirements in
the student’s major.
Credits
Subtotal: 18
Sociology 201 Urban Sociology
Sociology 202 Family
Sociology 206 Sociology of Conflict
Sociology 209 Work and Society
Sociology 213 Race and Ethnic Relations
Sociology 215 Women and American Society
Sociology 222 Mass Communication
Sociology 232 Social Stratification
Sociology 240 Social Deviance
Sociology 278 Political Sociology
Sociology 290 Selected Topics in Sociology
Sociology 302 Social Problems
Sociology 305 Sociology of Law
Sociology 314 Theories of Social Order
Sociology 401 Problems of Minority Groups
Social Science Research 325 Research Methods in the Behavioral
Sciences
Total: 18
SPANISH MINOR (Department of Foreign Languages
and Literatures)
Description. The Spanish minor is designed to make students
proficient in spoken and written Spanish through language and
literature courses that also present a cultural and psychological
understanding of the Spanish Diaspora.
An example of this is Spanish 212, an intermediate course in
grammar and conversation, taught with the use of film and literature
in which themes such as immigration, justice, nationalism, gender
issues, prejudice, personal relationships and the importance of family
are explored and discussed.
Rationale. In today’s global society, it is of paramount importance
for students to study foreign languages and cultures. If a student
earns a minor in Spanish, one of the five most important languages in
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