Please comment on the course reading materials, discussion board and the content. How would you improve the course? Do you feel the course was effective? Was the textbook applicable?
Textbook:Payne, 2017) White Collar Crime, The Essentials, Second edition, Sage Publications, 2455 Teller Rd. Thousand Oaks Calif., ISBN: 978-1-5063-4477-5
here is another classmates example
Ex 1.The Payne textbook was very helpful. It covered a lot of areas of white-collar crime that I perhaps hadn’t heard of before. Part of my professional background has been working with employee fraud, but the textbook covered so many other areas such as real estate, different criminal behaviors, cases, etc. I learned a lot from the discussion board and from reading thoughts and professional opinions of my classmates as well. A few of the classmates shared their professional experiences as public law enforcement, and how they have initiated investigations related to white collar crimes in the past and what they have seen, much different from my own perspective. The content was pretty good. I especially enjoyed the Bernie Madoff Frontline documentary. I felt that it was relevant to the course and was helpful to understand what happened in detail. Overall, this was a phenomenal course and was very effective to help me with my perspective. The workload was manageable for me and the grading by Dr. Kelley was extremely fair.
example 2:I did not know what to expect when taking this class by the title. I also saw that this class would focus on any topic relevant to criminal justice In today’s society. The reading material was interesting as it talked about white-collar crime, which I didn’t know about. The class itself was exciting and challenging at the same time, as the discussion questions were to be in-depth. One thing that I loved most about this class was reading everyone’s point of view from the discussion questions. Everyone responded, making you think about the different points in the topics. There couldn’t be much improvement in the course as an online class since we are not physically in a classroom. For what the class turned out to be, I think that the course was great; it was informative, and it also made you think beyond and see the topics. I’ve learned much from this class, as I didn’t know white-collar crime existed. I just called it embezzlement or fraud, which I didn’t have a name categorized for. Overall, I am glad I took the class to learn about something I didn’t know existed. The textbook was applicable as it was mostly referred to in this class, and it was very grave to get details about what was needed for tests and discussion questions. I enjoyed learning about white-collar crime.
