Video Introduction from
Dr. James Pappas
Dean of the
College of Liberal Studies
6:46 
LSTD 3503 - Interdisciplinary Inquiry
This course serves as the primary orientation for all undergraduate programs in the College of Liberal Studies. The students will be introduced to the concept of interdisciplinary inquiry, which is the foundation of the Bachelor of Liberal Studies degree.
LSTD 3253 - Foundations of Ethics in Liberal Studies
This course reviews ethical theory and issues in applied ethics. It reviews current issues, while looking at both sides of each argument. Each unit contains a set of guiding questions which are used in order to direct the student to look at the entire ethical view of each issue. Many basic questions must be addressed in order to help attain a decision on each issue. This course is to give the student a chance to look at each issue in a broad sense, while trying to develop your own view point on each topic.
LSTD 3733 – Comparative Justice Systems
This course examines and compares the legal and criminal justice systems of different nations. It focuses on historical, political and social factors, and explains their influence on legal institutions and systems of justice. The course discusses points of divergence between other societies and the United States in perceived causes of crime and differing approaches to rehabilitation and crime prevention. Countries representing Europe, Africa, Asia and Latin America are included.
LSTD 3763 – Deviance and Social Control
Students will be introduced to the sociological study of deviance and social control with a focus on the social construction of deviant behavior and the relative nature of such definitions through time and across cultures. Additionally, students will review current research on selected types of deviance to understand the individual and structural dimension of behavior as well as implications for policy and social control.
LSTD 3773 – Theories of Criminal Behavior
This course provides an overview of theories of criminal behavior as well as current issues in criminology. Students will be exposed to biological, sociological and psychological theories of crime, as well as opposing viewpoints on important topics in criminology.
LSTD 3963 – Statistics in Criminal Justice
This course is an introduction to the basics of social statistics-the methods and techniques which sociologists, policy analysts, and other social scientists use to summarize numeric data obtained from censuses, surveys, and experiments.
LSTD 4743 – Introduction to Forensic Science/Criminalistics
Forensic Science is the study and application of science to law. Forensic Science involves the relationship between the applications of chemistry, biology, and other scientific disciplines and the criminal investigative and justice processes. Areas included are drug identification, serology, DNA, latent prints, firearms, toxicology, and trace identification. Students will be presented with theories and principles related to methods in the recognition, collection, preservation, and analysis of physical evidence. Actual forensic cases will be presented and discussed throughout the course.
LSTD 4753 – Drugs and Society
This course will examine the impact of drug abuse on contemporary American society. Student will learn about drug regulation and legal issues, how drugs effect the brain and shape behavior, and about the various categories of drugs and their characteristics. The course will also focus on drug abuse prevention, treating drug dependence, and law enforcement programs to address drugs in society.
LSTD 3953 - Study in Depth Prospectus
This is a preparatory course assisting students in searching for quality literature, critiquing literature, identifying and developing research topics, and improving the quality of academic writing. This class will help you write your Study In Depth, the capstone writing project all Liberal Studies students must successfully complete to satisfy the requirements for graduation.
LSTD 4953 - Study in Depth
This course is designed to assist you in the completion of your study in depth paper, the capstone experience in the Bachelor of Liberal Studies Program. The course will focus on developing your thesis statement, locating and evaluating references, writing and organizing your paper, and putting your paper into its final form, including the list of references cited. This course is faculty driven with full flexibility for the director of the study in depth to manage the task in accordance with the subject undertaken.
LSTD 3663 – Ethics in Leadership
This course provides an overview of applied ethics as it relates to leadership situations in organizations. An emphasis will be placed on the individual in the "new workplace," and students will be encouraged to make connections between the course content or personal lives.
LSTD 3713 – Judicial Processes
This course will acquaint students of criminal justice with the overall structure of state and federal courts, including jurisdiction, sources of law, civil and criminal legal procedures from initial pleadings through appeal, substantive civil and criminal law, and policy issues about the role of the judiciary in representative government.
LSTD 3743 – Criminal Justice Administration
This course will cover the development, proliferation, institutionalization, and goals of the components of the criminal justice system (CJS) and their administration. They include law enforcement, the judiciary, and corrections, the so-called “three tiered” system. The final section will cover the ethics of managing justice and punishment.
LSTD 4313 - Global Security and Justice
This course is designed to help the student understand how governments deal with the problem of securing the "homeland." After the tragic events of 9/11, for example, the US government created the Department of Homeland Security to deal with this problem on a national scope. This might suggest that the government had not dealt with homeland security in the past. Nothing could be further from the truth. The US, like all societies, has engaged in homeland security since its inception. The advent of DHS was merely the first time that the efforts had been coordinated under one centralized agency. This class will examine what terrorism is, how America has traditionally dealt with homeland security, and how that perspective is evolving. Once we understand what terrorism is, the focus of the class will be on how law enforcement and the courts have taken on the challenge of providing global security while ensuring justice.
LSTD 4613 – Goal Setting and Attainment
This course introduces students to the importance of establishing goals and the goal attainment process in business and in everyday life. These include perspectives of goal attainment in industry as they apply to production and to overcoming personal challenges.
LSTD 4723 – Corrections
This is a survey course covering the development of the field of corrections from its early American roots to the present. Included are discussions of the role and function of jails, traditional and modern correctional facilities, private/contract corrections, and probation and parole. Corrections is the third component of the system.
LSTD 4733 – Policing
This course will provide a historical perspective of policing as well as up-to-date information on policing and the issues that police deal with in a post 9/11 society. The course will provide students with a basic understanding of the CSI Effect, the creation of the Department of Homeland Security and developments in Community Policing. The course will highlight the role of officers in society and within the criminal justice system.
LSTD 4763 – Criminal Investigation
This course provides students with the theoretical and practical aspects of criminal investigation. Students will develop an analytical and practical understanding of investigative methodology, the collection and preservation of physical evidence and will explore current crime solving technology.
LSTD 4773 – Cyber Security
This course provides an in-depth exploration of cyber crime and cyber security. It is an intensive study of the types of crime committed in cyberspace, a profile of offenders, and current legal issues in cyberspace. Students will explore emerging issues information assurance and prevention of cyber crimes and examine the proper collection, preservation and examination of digital evidence.
LSTD 4783 – Juvenile Delinquency
This course provides an overview of juvenile delinquency in the United States, including current issues. Students will read both classic studies on the emergence of the juvenile system and current research on trends in juvenile delinquency.
LSTD 3613 - Leadership in Organizations
The general purpose of this course is to learn about contemporary thinking regarding leadership in organizations and the applications of these insights for growth as a leader.
LSTD 3623 - Conflict Resolution
This course is designed to give students the opportunity to understand human needs, behavior of self and others. In this course, you will explore how conflict originates, processes by which it escalates, and alternative methods for dealing with it.
LSTD 4633 - Cultural Diversity
Managers, supervisors, training professionals, and educators must be able to effectively recruit, train, manage and promote a culturally diverse work force. However, few have been trained to do so. Throughout his book, Dr. Henderson presents ways to manage and value diversity in the workplace.
According to projected demographic changes in the United States, America's workplace will experience a dramatic change within the next decade. These changes will include increases in women, immigrants, and minorities within the workplace, as well as higher proportions of individuals between the ages of thirty five and fifty four in the working force. This course is designed to promote a better understanding of diversity, as well as prepare you for managing culturally diverse employees.
LSTD 4643 - Quality Initiatives
This course will strive to improve the student's understanding of quality and how it affects the organization as well as their own lives. Each unit will discuss specific tools that can be used in order to build teams and a good workplace environment.
The objective for this course is to describe when and how to use check sheets, criteria rating forms, matrix diagrams, affinity diagrams, cause and effect diagrams, pareto charts, process flow charts, histograms, run charts, and control charts.
LSTD 4673 - Mediation
This course provides an overview of the history of mediation as well as an introduction to substantive meditation theories and models. The practice of mediation will be introduced by examining its origins in both the court and community-focused movements.
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