Student Learning Outcomes: Upon successful completion of the course, the student will be able to:

1. Understand the major explanations of criminal behavior.
2. Applytheories to describecriminal behavior and crime.
3. Understand the nature of a variety of criminal activities.
4. Critically assess explanations of criminal behavior.
5. Write coherently on issues pertaining to crime, criminals, and/or criminal behavior.
6. Demonstrate a professional demeanor (e.g. in behavior and communication).

As a General Education course in Area ID, CRIM 153 provides instruction at the upper-division level that integrates material from lower-division courses in Breadth, Area D.

Students completing this course will be able to:

1. Deal with human social, political, and economic institutions and behavior and their historical background;

2. Reflect the fact that human social, political, and economic institutions and behavior are inextricably woven;

3. Examine problems and issues in these areas in their contemporary as well as historical setting, including both Western and non-Western contexts;

4. Learn to live in a culturally diverse and changing society; and

5. Prepare to function in an international, multicultural society.

GE Student Learning Outcomes for Area ID

Upon successfully completing a course in Area ID a student will be able to:

1. Describe the inextricable connections among human social, political, cultural and economic institutions and behavior and employ the diverse methodologies used to examine them.

2. Discuss social science issues, human institutions and their interconnections from both a contemporary and historical perspective.