2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog

CJ 202 Writing in Criminal Justice

The course will focus on writing essays, reports, and literature reviews as well as thesis development, organization, logic, proofreading, and feedback. 

Credits

3

Prerequisite

ENGL 102

Offered

Spring

Student Learning Outcomes

  1. Students will demonstrate effective written communication through a variety of professional and academic writing assignments
  2. Students will gain an understanding of the difference between scholarly (academic) and popular (nonacademic) sources
  3. Students will become proficient at using the UJ Library system to locate quality sources for research projects
  4. Students will become proficient at using APA style (7th edition) to create reference pages and in-sentence citations
  5. Students will gain an understanding of basic research methods as needed for the criminal justice profession