Law Enforcement Option

Criminal Justice

A.A.S. Degree (D,G,S)

The Law Enforcement Option is an associate degree program designed and offered in collaboration with the Delaware State Police Training Academy. Students who elect this option are required to pass a background check preliminarily qualifying them as potential police recruit. The student will then take a curriculum of courses based on the criminal justice associate degree appropriate to the law enforcement career path culminating in a 13-credit lecture and lab course taught by certified police instructors.

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.

  1. Employ criminal justice ethics in the performance of duties.
  2. Employ the legal principles and practices of criminal and constitutional law.
  3. Utilize interviewing, counseling, and crisis intervention techniques with diverse criminal justice populations.
  4. Apply the knowledge and skills of a law enforcement professional.
  5. Meet the academic training eligibility requirements for advanced standing status at the Delaware State Police Academy.

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:

  1. Apply clear and effective communication skills.
  2. Use critical thinking to solve problems.
  3. Collaborate to achieve a common goal.
  4. Demonstrate professional and ethical conduct.
  5. Use information literacy for effective vocational and/or academic research.
  6. Apply quantitative reasoning and/or scientific inquiry to solve practical problems.

Graduation Requirements

Core Courses

ENG 101Composition I

3

ENG 102Composition II

3

MAT 152Quantitative Reasoning

3

PSY 121General Psychology

3

SOC 111Sociology

3

SSC 100First Year Seminar

1

Program/Major Courses

CRJ 101Introduction to Criminal Justice

3

CRJ 102Criminal Law

3

CRJ 104Drugs, Society, and Human Behavior

3

CRJ 105Computer Applications in Criminal Justice

3

CRJ 115Essentials of Interviewing and Counseling

3

CRJ 217Ethics, Professionalism, and Communication in Public Safety

3

CRJ 220Criminal Judiciary

3

CRJ 222Constitutional Law

3

CRJ 226Crisis Intervention

3

CRJ 237Law Enforcement Practicum

13

Program/Major Support Courses

CIS 107Introduction to Computers/Application

3

ENG 122Technical Writing and Communication

3

HDM 202First Responder

3

PSY 223Abnormal Psychology

3

 

SPA 133Using Beginning Spanish

3

Or

SPA 136Spanish Communication I

4

Suggested Pathway to Graduation (Course Sequence Sheet)

Semester 1

SSC 100First Year Seminar

1

CRJ 101Introduction to Criminal Justice

3

CRJ 115Essentials of Interviewing and Counseling

3

MAT 152Quantitative Reasoning

3

ENG 101Composition I

3

CRJ 104Drugs, Society, and Human Behavior

3

Semester 2

CIS 107Introduction to Computers/Application

3

CRJ 102Criminal Law

3

PSY 121General Psychology

3

ENG 102Composition II

3

SOC 111Sociology

3

 

SPA 133Using Beginning Spanish

3

Or

SPA 136Spanish Communication I

4

Semester 3

CRJ 105Computer Applications in Criminal Justice

3

CRJ 220Criminal Judiciary

3

ENG 122Technical Writing and Communication

3

HDM 202First Responder

3

CRJ 226Crisis Intervention

3

PSY 223Abnormal Psychology

3

Semester 4

CRJ 222Constitutional Law

3

CRJ 237Law Enforcement Practicum

13

CRJ 217Ethics, Professionalism, and Communication in Public Safety

3

To complete program requirements, you must pass the above courses and earn at least 71 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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