STUDENT:  __________________

PLACEMENT:  ________________

INSTRUCTOR:
    Prof. Henriksen
    Home Phone: (217) 544-2931, please don’t call after 9pm
    Office Phone: ext. 104
    E-mail: kay.henriksen@mac.edu
    E-Mail is the best way to communicate with me. I will use your Mac E-Mail address to contact you.
    Office Hours: Monday 1-2 pm, Wednesday 10-11am, or by appointment
    Office: Room 26 MacMurray Hall
    Mailbox: 1042

 

REQUIRED READING:

COURSE OBJECTIVES:

To give students an opportunity to experience the day to day work of a job in criminal justice and to see those experiences in the context of planning a career.

GRADING POLICY:

Each student must work, at least, 120 hours on his or her internship for three hours of credit.
50 of the 120 hours must be completed before class on October 15, 2007.
The entire 120 hours must be completed before class on December 10, 2007.

Attendance

Attendance at the weekly class meetings is required.  Two unexcused absences will result in failing the class.

Journals

Keep a journal of what you do for each shift you work. Record what you do and your impressions of the work done by you and those around you. The journal must be typed. An entry is due at each class period. I won't give you a page limit, but please make the journal quite detailed. The journals will be evaluated, in part, based on spelling, grammar and punctuation.

Include the date of the entry, the time you arrived and departed, how many hours you worked on that day and your total hours for the semester.

-Example

January 6, 2007
8am - 4pm
8 hours
total hours 24

The last journal must be handed in, no later than, the beginning of class on December 10, 2007.

Reading

Write a 500-word report on your book. Briefly summarize the book and give your opinion of, or reaction to, the book. If you can, relate what you read, to what you have observed at your internship. Show me that you have read and understood the book. The report must be typed. The report must behanded in, no later than, the beginning of class on December 10, 2007.

Take Home Final

This final is due at the beginning of class on December 10, 2007. It must be typed and double -spaced. Spelling, grammar and punctuation count. Your answer should be, at least, 500 words long. You may get help with proofreading after the final is written, but you must WRITE the paper all by yourself.

1. Recalling a specific experience that you had at your internship this semester, explain how that experience taught you something positive about what it would be like to have a career in criminal justice.

2. Same as above, only this time, how a specific experience taught you something negative about what it would be like to have a career in criminal justice.

This is a pass/fail course If you do not complete the whole 120 hours at the internship according to the time lines set out above, you will fail. If you do not hand in journals for all of the 120 hours, on a weekly basis, you will fail. If you do not hand in the report on your reading, on time, you will fail. If you do not complete the take home final and hand it in on time you will fail. More than two unexcused absences and you will fail.

Please review the attached copy of MacMurray's policy on Academic Dishonesty.

"All that matters is love and work."

S. Freud

 

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