200-Level Sophomore Transfer Seminars
Your sophomore transfer seminar fulfills the 200-level Justice Core (a general education college option requirement). These reserved sections will introduce you to John Jay’s justice mission and support a successful transition to your new academic journey. They are taught by experienced faculty who are experts in their fields and will be able to connect you to academic and professional resources. Each seminar is assigned a peer success coach, who provides ongoing support and serves as a connection to the campus. NOTE: Sophomore standing = 30 to 59 credits transferred and posted during the Fall 2025 semester.
For the Fall 2025 semester students should select ONE course from the following subject areas:
- Economics (ECO)
- History (HIS)
- International Criminal Justice (ICJ)
- Sociology (SOC)
Economics (ECO)
Movements for Economic Justice
- ECO 207-03, T/TH 9:25 AM - 10:40 AM
- Instruction Mode: In Person
- Registration Code: 36692
- Professor Nathaniel Wright
At the heart of every justice movement lies an economic argument. This course helps students to act locally and think globally about economic issues that affect their lives, their communities, and their planet. To experience the power of collective economic action students will work cooperatively to accomplish shared goals. Topics and case studies will include historic and contemporaneous social movements including the Labor Movement for an Eight Hour Workday, The Civil Rights Movement embodied by the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, and the Movement to Reverse Global Warming.
History (HIS)
Famous Trials that Made History
- HIS 255-01, M/W 12:15 PM – 1:30 PM
- Instruction Mode: In Person
- Registration Code: 36695
- Professor Stephen Russell
Certain trials, even those from the very distant past, remain embedded in our collective memory and imagination decades or even centuries later. This course will examine in detail famous historical trials such as the Salem witchcraft trials, the Amistad case, and/or the McCarthy anti-communist trials. Students will use these trials as a lens to explore historical issues of justice, and consider their significance for individuals, and what that suggests about our individual understandings of justice. This course serves as gateway to John Jay College for transfer students, welcoming and introducing them to the many resources the college provides as well as the academic training that will help them pursue their goals as fierce advocates of justice.
International Criminal Justice (ICJ)
The UN Sustainable Development Goals and Global Justice
- ICJ 205-01, T 8:00 AM-9:15 AM
- Instruction Mode: Hybrid
- Registration Code: 36671
- Professor Ariany Polo
The UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) encompass environmental sustainability, poverty and hunger reduction, health, economic development, gender equality, and peace and inclusion. The SDGs uniquely encourage and empower adolescents and young people’s engagement. Positioning them not only as beneficiaries of a successful 2030 SDG agenda, but also as active participants in implementing and achieving these goals. This course will examine the background of these goals, and the methods and challenges to achieving them. Students will explore global citizenship by relating these global justice goals and their underlying principles to their individual values and circumstances, and to their experiences and aspirations as students at John Jay College of Criminal Justice.
Sociology (SOC)
Health Equity and Social Justice
- SOC 220-01, T/TH 9:25 AM – 10:40 AM
- Instruction Mode: In Person
- Registration Code: 36252
- Professor Mohammad Hamad
This course will examine equal rights and opportunities, as they relate to public health crises and address the social determinants of health and equity. Students will explore the principles of social justice (access to resources, equity, participation, diversity, and human rights) as they relate to current public health crises, including global pandemics (e.g., Coronavirus Disease of 2019 (COVID-19) and HIV/AIDS), national epidemics (e.g., domestic violence (and intimate partner violence), mass killings by firearms, and racism, as a public health crisis).