CJ 227 Funding and Program Development for Crime Prevention (5 credits)
Course Description
A course designed to familiarize students with the basics of the grant funding process for social programs (state & federal), and how to develop a prevention idea into a program that can be funded and measured.
Course Content
A. Introduction of grant funding terms and concepts
B. Differences between grants and contracts
C. Research using the internet and other sources for criminal justice/social program funding resources
D. Request for Proposal (RFP) components
E. Social program development using the logic model format
F. Programs for crime/justice prevention, intervention, and rehabilitation
G. Exploration of program inputs, activities, outputs, indicator and outcomes
H. Avoidance of goal-displacement for social programs
I. Differences between capital and operating expenses
J. Creation of a program proposal
Student Outcomes
1. Identify social program funding lines and sources.
2. Explain the difference between grants/contracts, and outputs/outcomes.
3. Formulate a program logic model for a crime/justice social program.
4. Establish a budget, including both operating and capital expenses.
5. Create a program proposal in an area of interest.
Degree Outcomes
Program Outcome: Graduates will critically evaluate past, present and future discrimination and privilege of individuals, societies, groups and institutions.
Critical, Creative, and Reflective Thinking: Graduates will evaluate, analyze, synthesize, and generate ideas; construct informed, meaningful, and justifiable conclusions; and process feelings, beliefs, biases, strengths, and weaknesses as they relate to their thinking, decisions, and creations.
Intercultural Engagement: Graduates demonstrate self-efficacy in intercultural engagement to advance equity, diversity, and inclusion through reflections and expressions of cultural humility, empathy, and social and civic engagement and action. Further, graduates examine how identities/positionalities such as races, social classes, genders, sexual orientations, disabilities, and cultures impact perceptions, actions, and the distribution of power and privilege in communities, systems, and institutions.
Global Citizenship: Graduates will be able to critically examine the relationship between self, community, and/or environments, and to evaluate and articulate potential impacts of choices, actions, and contributions for the creation of sustainable and equitable systems.
Lecture Contact Hours 50
Lab Contact Hours 0
Clinical Contact Hours 0
Total Contact Hours 50
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