Criminal Justice
Criminal Justice
A.A.S. Degree (D,G,S)
The Criminal Justice program prepares students for positions in local, state, and federal criminal justice agencies as well as private agencies. Career areas available to graduates are law enforcement and related services, corrections, counseling, probation, and parole. This program provides students the foundation for transfer to public and private four-year in-state colleges and universities to complete requirements for a bachelor's degree.
Program Graduate Competencies
The Program Graduate Competencies listed below identify the major learning goals related to your specific program of study and identify the knowledge and skills you will have when you graduate to be successful in your chosen field.
- Discuss criminal justice professionalism in the performance of duties.
- Articulate the function and interaction of criminal justice agencies and organizations.
- Explain interviewing, counseling, or crisis intervention techniques with diverse criminal justice populations.
- Apply knowledge of causation and correction to juvenile or adult offenders.
- Describe the legal principles of criminal or constitutional law.
Core Curriculum Competencies
The Core Curriculum Competencies listed below identify what you will be able to do as a graduate, regardless of your program of study. You will acquire these core competencies through general education courses and program-specific coursework. You will be expected to use relevant technology to achieve these outcomes:
- Apply clear and effective communication skills.
- Use critical thinking to solve problems.
- Collaborate to achieve a common goal.
- Demonstrate professional and ethical conduct.
- Use information literacy for effective vocational and/or academic research.
- Apply quantitative reasoning and/or scientific inquiry to solve practical problems.
Graduation Requirements
Core Courses
Program/Major Courses
Program/Major Support Courses
| CIS 107 | Introduction to Computers/Application | 3 |
| ENG 122 | Technical Writing and Communication | 3 |
| PSY 223 | Abnormal Psychology | 3 |
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| POL 111 | Political Science | 3 |
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| HIS 112 | United States History Post-Civil War | 3 |
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| SPA 133 | Using Beginning Spanish | 3 |
| Or | |
| SPA 136 | Spanish Communication I | 4 |
Suggested Pathway to Graduation (Course Sequence Sheet)
Semester 1
| SSC 100 | First Year Seminar | 1 |
| CRJ 101 | Introduction to Criminal Justice | 3 |
| CRJ 115 | Essentials of Interviewing and Counseling | 3 |
| MAT 152 | Quantitative Reasoning | 3 |
| ENG 101 | Composition I | 3 |
| CRJ 104 | Drugs, Society, and Human Behavior | 3 |
Semester 2
Semester 3
Semester 4
| CRJ 222 | Constitutional Law | 3 |
| CRJ 226 | Crisis Intervention | 3 |
| ENG 122 | Technical Writing and Communication | 3 |
| PSY 223 | Abnormal Psychology | 3 |
| CRJ 217 | Ethics, Professionalism, and Communication in Public Safety | 3 |
To complete program requirements, you must pass the above courses and earn at least 65 credits. The number of courses and credits required for graduation may be more depending on your need for developmental education courses and the elective choices you make (if electives are a part of the program). Some programs also have college-level courses that you must take if you do not score at a certain level on the College Placement Test. If this applies to your program, the courses are listed at the top of the sequence sheet before the first semester of the course list.
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