College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences Graduate Catalog

183 This course emphasizes two broad approaches to strategic planning: explicit planning and adaptive planning. Students develop a working knowledge of how to do planning in the public sector according to these two approaches. In the usual way, students learn about the SWOT method, but then much more is gained by studying how planning is actually carried out according to three adaptive perspectives and other ancillary and explicit approaches including learning theory and contingency theory. Students learn what went wrong in the Katrina disaster and what continues to go wrong. The question is put: Can Americans plan? Finally, students review how local community and economic development planning occurs through resort to charrettes and public- private partnerships. (Prerequisite: CJI 6420) CJI 6440 Public-Sector Human Resource Management (3 Credits) The political and institutional environment of public human resource management is examined. Emphasis is given to the challenges facing the public sector in attracting and developing human assets in an environment of conflicting goals, stakeholder obligations, and a highly aware electorate. Specific topics include the evolution of the modern public service, the functions of human resource management, employment discrimination, labor management relations, professionalism and ethics. CJI 6450 Leadership in the Public Sector (3 Credits) This course will explore the dimensions of leadership and decision making within the public sector. Students will explore the major theoretical frameworks of leadership as well as the relationship of leadership to organizational change and effective management strategies. Emphasis is given to assisting practitioners and students with in-depth reflection for self-development in such areas as decision-making, ethics, and emotional intelligence. CJI 6460 Public & Non-Profit Strategic Mgt Strategic management is defined as “a disciplined effort to produce fundamental decisions and actions that shape and guide what an organization is, what it does, and why it does it.” The focus of strategic management is on “fundamental decisions.” Strategic management is about shaping the mission and goals of an organization. Strategic management focuses on the future of an organization by trying to define the opportunities to act and the barriers to action that prevent us from achieving a desired future state. The goal of the process is to implement a program and complete a set of tasks, not to produce a plan (hence the shift in terminology from strategic planning to strategic management). Prerequisite: CJI 6420. CJI 6510 Psychopharmacology of Illicit and Licit Drugs (3 Credits) This course reviews the physical and psychodynamic effects of legal and illegal drugs. Mental disorders, symptom otology, assessment measures for addicts and dual diagnosis, along with a thorough examination of the DSM-IV. CJI 6520 Alcohol and Other Drug Treatment in the Criminal Justice System (3 Credits) This course will examine treatment and intervention approaches that are effective with the offenders in correctional settings. Such topics to be introduced are drug and alcohol treatment in correctional institutions, treatment modalities, principles of the therapeutic communities, characteristics and traits of the offender and issues related to the transition into the community. CJI 6530 Substance Abuse Treatment in the Community (3 Credits) This course will examine various models of community-based programs for the individual who has a substance abuse disorder and is in the criminal justice system. It will focus on research regarding factors of recidivism, treatment matching, and case management, relapse prevention techniques, setting treatment goals and resources in the community. CJI 6540 Cultural Factors in Treatment Associated with Substance Abuse Issues and the Criminal Justice System (3 Credits) This course will introduce students to cultural and racial identity development, The impact that class, race, ethnicity and sexual orientation have on court disposition, sentencing and the correctional process, culturally specific treatment techniques, racial and sexual dynamics in institutional settings and in community programs, including knowledge of cross-cultural interviewing skills. CJI 6550 Special Topics in Substance Abuse and the Criminal Justice System (3 Credits). (Replaces HSHJ 6560) This course is designed to give the student an opportunity to research a specific topic related to substance abuse services and the Criminal Justice System. Students are expected to work in an independent fashion and engage in in-depth research through the use of various sources. Such sources may include journal articles, books, online resources, and other scholarly works as deemed appropriate by the instructor. Students will receive guidance from the instructor regarding topic selection, along with scope and focus of the required paper. CJI 6610 Human Factors (3 Credits) This course presents communication theories relevant to conflict resolution as well as theories about understanding, analyzing, and managing conflict. The course focuses on the human and emotional aspects of conflict, and includes the influence of gender and culture. This course is pragmatic as well as theoretical, and presents communication and conflict resolution models in a practice-based approach. CJI 6620 Critical Incidents Response (3 Credits)