| Program Name: |
Justice Studies |
| Director: |
Jon-Christian Suggs |
| Program Address: |
John Jay College of Criminal Justice
The City University of New York
English Department
899 Tenth Avenue
New York, NY 10019
212/237-8575
E-mail: jcsjj@sprintmail.com
Web site: www.jjay.cuny.edu/academic/undergrad/justice.html |
| Program Type: |
Major |
| Program Status: |
B.A. degree, established in 1999 |
| Statement of Intellectual Structure: |
| “This major is designed to bring the premises, questions, and
methodologies of the humanities to bear on the fundamental normative problems of shaping
the concept of justice in human affairs. Study in and research which will serve the major
are directed toward problems of definitions and representations of justice, the ability to
identify the just and unjust act, questions of retribution and distribution, the
personification of justice, justice as an essentialist concept or a socially constructed
one, the relationship between terror and justice, comedy and tragedy as ways of seeing the
just and the unjust, and the distribution of justice historically and immediately. These
questions are surrounded by instruction in the traditions and methods of humanistic
inquiry within a framework of a college historically focused on the pragmatic questions of
administering a criminal justice system in a complex urban society.” |
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| Program Curricular Organization: |
An interdisciplinary, humanities-based major drawing
primarily from the fields of history, literature, and philosophy. The four core courses
were team-designed by members of all three disciplines. There is a small social-science
component focused on criminal justice. Students having taken the core courses and the
social science component select a concentration in history, literature or philosophy, or
may select an interdisciplinary area concentration with the help of an advisor. |
| Required Courses: |
Foundations Courses
Justice in the Western Traditions
Research Methods in Humanities and Justice
Social Sciences Courses
Criminal Justice
Criminology
Problems and Research Courses
Text and Theory: Senior Prospectus
Research Project in Justice Studies
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| Sample of Elective Courses: |
Comparative Justice in American History
Crime and Punishment in Literature
Utopian Thought
The Theme of Justice in 20th Century Spanish Literature
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| Experiential Component: |
N/A |
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