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DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY, SOCIAL WORK AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE
Jay W. Malcan, Box 9036, Room 201F Colson Hall, Phone: 524-5512 Professor: James F. Hodgson, Mokerrom Hossain, Jay W. Malcan Associate Professors: Ghyasuddin Ahmed, Ayana Conway, Joyce M. Edwards, David B. Stein, Isis N. Walton Assistant Professors: C. Nana Derby, John Harris, Morris Jones, Zaccheus Ogunnika, Nicolle Parsons-Pollard, Zoe Spencer, Gwendolyn B. Thornton Administrative Service Specialist: Tracy Evans Phone: 524-5511 Description of Department
The Department of Sociology, Social Work and Criminal Justice offers undergraduate and graduate degrees in three areas: Sociology, Criminal Justice, and Social Work These programs prepare students for a wide range of career options in teaching, practice, and research. Majors are educated for maximum flexibility, with emphasis on developing communications, data analysis skills, and the ability to think critically. The Sociology curriculum offers general education on different major aspects of sociological knowledge. Majors in Sociology are prepared for graduate and professional schools and for direct entry into administrative positions in the major corporate and public sectors; positions in social research, social services, business, teaching, and military. Students whose objectives are law, ministry, business management, higher education, politics, government, and the military will be uniquely qualified for success in graduate and professional schools upon completion of this baccalaureate program. This Department also offers Bachelor of Science and Master of Science in Criminal Justice. Criminal Justice is a discipline dedicated to studying how the criminal justice system (police, courts, and corrections) utilizes social control measures in dealing with criminal behavior. A criminal justice programs provide students with a comprehensive, broad-based liberal arts education and analysis of six major fields of criminal justice; juvenile justice, law enforcement, corrections, court procedures, forensic investigation, and criminal justice research. Building on a generalist model of social work practice and the firm liberal arts foundation, baccalaureate social work students are specifically prepared for beginning generalist professional social work practice with individual students, groups, families and communities. These students are prepared to practice social work in many fields of practice such as gerontology, juvenile delinquency, industrial and personnel counseling, adult and juvenile corrections, mental health, federal and local planning, child welfare, social administration, research and teaching. The Social Work Program at Virginia State University is a growing academic program. Currently seeking accreditation from the Council on Social Work Education, the program, which is in the pre-candidacy stage of accreditation, offers students the opportunity to earn academic credits in the social work program. All social work courses will be recognized and counted toward the requirements for an accredited Baccalaureate Social Work (BSW) degree. For more information, please contact the Director of the Social Work Program or the Department Chair.
Mission of Department
The mission of the Department is to provide students with a liberal arts education through which they acquire skill in abstract logical thinking, historical consciousness, knowledge and skills of science and scientific inquiry, knowledge of values and their relationship to a variety of life situations, knowledge of international and multicultural phenomena, and experience with in-depth study. We endeavor to provide curricula and other types of educational experiences through which students will acquire increasingly complex knowledge, the abilities and the technological skills to apply that knowledge to a wide range of situations and conditions in careers, professions and in their personal lives. Objectives of Department
The objectives of the Department are to identify potential problems with basic skills and liberal arts knowledge through academic advising; include, in the major curricula, general education requirement courses which will help students acquire basic skills and liberal arts knowledge; include, across the sociology and social work course requirements, skills and liberal arts learning based teaching and assignments, as well as applied skills experiences for students; offer curricula which include prerequisite courses, as well as courses with degrees of difficulty appropriate for the numerical course designated for freshman, sophomore, junior, or senior levels; and require internship experiences for all programs within the department. Majors in the DepartmentMaster of Science in Criminal Justice (MSCJ)
Other Department information
Students can participate in the following departmental organizations: Alpha Kappa Delta- International Sociological Honor Society, Alpha Phi Sigma - National Criminal Justice Honor Society, Social Work Club, Sociology Club, and Criminal Justice Club, National Association of Blacks in Criminal Justice (NABCJ), International Organization of Black Security Executives (IOBSE). |
