Students have little leeway as to when they take required courses. Occasionally scheduling conflicts occur between required major courses and required outside courses or between those courses and the student's work schedules. Most students perceive their discipline-specific training as adequate or better. The Justice Studies option offers students a major in Sociology, and as such, the department feels it is appropriate to focus our attention to sociologically oriented issues of law and justice. Communication Skills Communication skills remain problematic.
Graduates responding to the exit interview appear polarized on the issue of communication skills.
We have been reasonably successful in developing students' problem-solving skills. Increasing enrollments in all classes are probably beginning to erode the effectiveness of our efforts in those courses. Graduates responding to the exit interview appear polarized on the issue of problem-solving skills. The exit interview asked separate questions as to which courses in their major they earned the most and in which they learned the least. The very courses we have identified as contributing to problem-solving skills were listed by some as their most valuable courses and by others as the least valuable.