Criminal Justice Courses
CRIM 1003 Spanish for Law Enforcement Officers
This course is designed to familiarize law enforcement personnel with basic Spanish to better enhance communications and ensure safety between law enforcement officers and the Spanish speaking community. (3 Credits)
CRIM 1013 Introduction to Law Enforcement
This course is an introduction to the law enforcement segment of the criminal justice system, with an examination of the history and development of law enforcement, especially in the United States. The various job and career opportunities will be reviewed. (3 Credits)
CRIM 1023 Introduction to Criminal Justice
This course is intended to expose the student to the workings of criminal justice systems, exploring the historical development, current operation, and future trends of criminal justice. Emphasis will be placed on contemporary problems in the definition of law, the enforcement of law, strategies of policing, judicial systems, sentencing strategies, and correctional practices. Content includes not only practices in the United States, but also other cultures and their systems of justice. (3 Credits)
CRIM 1033 Introduction to Corrections
This basic course discusses correctional concepts from their historical background to the present. An emphasis will be placed on the multi-faceted approach to corrections in our society, including the use of alternatives to incarceration. (3 Credits)
CRIM 2013 Agency Administration
This course examines management models, administrative techniques and patterns of organizational structure characteristics of criminal justice agencies. Prerequisite: CRIM 1023. (3 Credits)
CRIM 2023 Probation, Parole, and Community Corrections
This course examines the principles, problems, and trends in the probation, parole and communications of both adults and juveniles. It overviews the methods of achieving organizational change and the evaluation of correctional units and probation systems. Prerequisites: CRIM 1023 and CRIM 1033. (3 Credits)
CRIM 2043 Community Relations in the Administration of Justice
Provides an understanding of the complex factors in human relations. The philosophy of law enforcement is examined with the emphasis on the social forces that create social change and disturbance. (3 Credits)
CRIM 2213 Criminology
This basic course provides an examination of the nature and extent of crime and theories of crime causation, as well as the societal reaction of criminal behavior. (3 Credits)
CRIM 2223 Criminal Justice Management/Planning
This course examines budgeting, personnel and planning. This course is designed to develop a working knowledge of management planning in criminal justice. Prerequisite: CRIM 1023. (3 Credits)
CRIM 2233 Criminal Law
This course is a survey of the history and nature of criminal law in the United States. Substantive criminal law, defenses and criminal responsibility will be studied within the context of the criminal justice process and rules of evidence. Prerequisite: CRIM 1023. (3 Credits)
CRIM 2243 Criminalistics
This course covers topics such as the discovery, recognition, observation, identification and collection and comparison of physical evidence, including a review of various current techniques in the testing of physical evidence. Prerequisites: CRIM 2253 and CRIM 2263. (3 Credits)
CRIM 2253 Criminal Investigation
Includes fundamentals and theory of an investigation, conduct at crime scenes, collection and presentation of physical evidence, and methods used in the police service industry. (3 Credits)
CRIM 2263 Criminal Evidence and Procedure
Rules of evidence of import at the operational level in law enforcement and criminal procedures, personal conduct of the officer as a witness, and examination of safeguarding personal constitutional liberties. (3 Credits)
CRIM 2274 Forensic Science
This course provides an overview of forensic science focusing on evidence collection, laboratory analysis techniques, report writing, and expert testimony. (4 Credits)
