Introduction to Corrections
ADJ-24

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• INTRODUCTION TO CORRECTIONS   ADJ 24
  ONLINE DISTANCE LEARNING COURSE

 

• Instructor:  CRAIG DILLEY

 

• Instructor Contact:  Since this will be an online course, the best way to contact me is through my college email account at:  dilley@siskiyous.edu
  I don't have an office on campus, so e-mail is the best method to communicate.

 

• Office Hours:  I will be available online for at least an hour each week. I can also schedule phone appointments. On-campus support hours can be used to access in-person help from the computer lab assistants on campus.

 

• Number of Units:  This course is three units, transferable to CSU, and non-repeatable.

 

• Class Meeting Times and Location:  This class meets entirely online, using the Etudes online classroom. New lectures and assignments will be posted and available for review each week.
  This class will begin January 12, 2009 and will end May 21, 2009.

 

• Prerequisites, Corequisites, and Advisories:   This course does not require prerequisites. This is an online Distance Learning Course, so students will require access to a computer, access to the Internet, email, and experience with web browsers. Students should also have a 10th grade reading and writing level.

 

• Required Text and Materials:
  CORRECTIONS:  THE FUNDAMENTALS      Burk Foster
  First Edition 2006
  Prentice Hall,  Publishers
  ISBN: 0-13-114328-X

 

• Course Objectives:

This course is an introduction to the field of corrections in the United States.
Areas of instruction include:
• Understand the origin, development and evolution of corrections in America.
• Origins of correctional institutions and evolution of correctional practices.
• Correction personnel and their function.
• Administration of corrections in the criminal justice system.
• Distinctions betwen jails and prisons.
• Functions and differences between probation and parole.
• Prisoner rights versus society's call for confinement.
• Systems at the federal, state and local levels.

 

• Course Content:
• Early history and evolution of corrections.
• Law and the correctional process.
• The correctional process.
• The rights of the convicted criminal.
• Title 15 of the California Code of Regulation & related impact within the state.
• The correctional client.
• Correctional Systems
• Parole and Probation
• Summary and overview

 

• Grading:
  Students are expected to log into the online "Etudes" class each week, do the reading assignments and participate in class online discussion boards. Your understanding of the material will be demonstrated through assignments and tests.
  

  6 Chapter Quizzes at 10 points each.	60 points
  3 Tests at 10 points each.	30 points
  1 Essay exercise at 10 points.	10 points
  1 Essay Project at 20 points.	20 points
  5 Exercises at 10 points each.	50 points
  1 Final Exam at 30 points.	30 points
  Total:	200 Points

  
   
  Grades will be assigned in accordance with the following scale:
  

  180 - 200 points	A
  160 - 179 points	B
  140 - 159 points	C
  120 - 139 points	D
  Less than 120 points	F

  
   
  
• Support Hour Requirement :  The support hour provides COS students with access to professional assistance, supplemental instruction and remediation opportunities to help improve student success. Supervised support through out Critical Skills Center is offered for reading, writing, information technology, computer competency, and skills other than those related to the Administration of Justice Program. This course requires you to complete assignments which are to be submitted online. The support hour allows you to go to the computer labs on either campus, obtain a computer account, and get the one-on-one help you need. Students should take advantage of the resources available in the campus computer labs. Student use of the support hour will be assessed, as outlined in the grading requirements.
   
  
• Attendance/Withdrawal/Incomplete:  Students are expected to log into the Etudes online course each week. Lectures and assignments will be posted each week. Students are expected to have backup computers available should their primary computer not be accessible.  Computers are available at the campus computer lab.   Students dropping between January 12, 2009 and February 6, 2009 will receive a "W" on their transcript. It is the student's responsibility to drop the class once you've started. Students who haven't dropped by April 24, 2009 will receive a letter grade. Students may be dropped from the course for failure to log into the Etudes online course for four consecutive weeks. An Incomplete will only be given if academic work is incomplete due to an unforeseeable emergency.
   
  
• Honesty and Plagiarism:  Honesty and integrity is expected in all coursework.  Academic dishonesty will result in zero points for the assignment, and possible dismissal from the class. Plagiarism will not be accepted in any form. Academic dishonesty will result in zero points for the assignment, and possible dismissal from the class.
   
  
• Making Up Missed Work:  Exercise grades will be reduced by two points when turned in late within one week of due date. Exercises will not be accepted for credit eight days or more after the due date.
   
  
• Academic Accommodations:  Students have the right to request reasonable modifications to college requirements, services, facilities or programs if their documented disability imposes an educational limitation or impedes access to requirements, services, facilities or programs. A student with a disability who requests a modification, accommodation, or adjustment is responsible for requesting necessary accommodations by identifying himself/herself to the instructor and, if desired, to the Disabled Student Services (DSS) office Eddy Hall 1.  Students with a print disability--a visual limitation or reading difficulty that limits access to traditional print materials--may request printed materials in alternate media.  Examples of alternate media formats include electronic format (e.g., text on CD), Braille, tactile graphics, audiotape, and/or large print.  Students can make alternate media requests through the Disabled Student Services (DSS) Eddy Hall 1,  938-5297.  Students who consult or request assistance from DSS regarding specific modifications, accommodations, adjustments, alternate text or use of auxiliary aids will be required to meet timelines and procedural requirements established by the DSS office.
   
  
• Date and Time of Final Exam:  Passing the final exam is a requirement of this course. The final exam will be online during the final week of this course.
   
  

If you have any questions, please send an e-mail to:  Craig Dilley

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