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

General Education

ENG 101	Composition I	3
ENG 102	Composition II	3
MAT 152	Quantitative Reasoning	3
PSY 121	General Psychology	3
SOC 111	Sociology	3
SSC 100	First Year Seminar	1

Program/Major Concentration

CIS 107	Introduction to Computers/Application	3
CRJ 101	Introduction to Criminal Justice	3
CRJ 102	Criminal Law	3
CRJ 104	Drugs, Society, and Human Behavior	3
CRJ 105	Computer Applications in Criminal Justice	3
CRJ 115	Essentials of Interviewing and Counseling	3
CRJ 217	Ethics, Professionalism, and Communication in Public Safety	3
CRJ 220	Criminal Judiciary	3
CRJ 222	Constitutional Law	3
CRJ 226	Crisis Intervention	3
CRJ 237	Law Enforcement Practicum	13
ENG 122	Technical Writing and Communication	3
HDM 202	First Responder	3
PSY 223	Abnormal Psychology	3
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

CIS 107	Introduction to Computers/Application	3
CRJ 102	Criminal Law	3
PSY 121	General Psychology	3
ENG 102	Composition II	3
SOC 111	Sociology	3
SPA 133	Using Beginning Spanish	3
	Or
SPA 136	Spanish Communication I	4

Semester 3

CRJ 105	Computer Applications in Criminal Justice	3
CRJ 220	Criminal Judiciary	3
ENG 122	Technical Writing and Communication	3
HDM 202	First Responder	3
CRJ 226	Crisis Intervention	3
PSY 223	Abnormal Psychology	3

Semester 4

CRJ 222	Constitutional Law	3
CRJ 237	Law Enforcement Practicum	13
CRJ 217	Ethics, 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 college readiness and the elective courses offered in your program major (if electives are a part of the program).

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