CRJ Criminal Justice Courses at Global Campus

This course introduces students to the responsibilities and functions across agencies at various jurisdictional levels that have the charge of homeland security. Students will also focus on the methods and effectiveness of response systems and social justice issues. In addition, students will study practical actions in homeland security and develop skills to evaluate complex policy issues.

This course explores specialized topics in substantive and procedural law with a special emphasis on employment law, and how these legal issues impact ethics and leadership in criminal justice and correctional organizations. This course is well suited for command-level personnel in response to a variety of potential agency and personal liability issues.

This course is designed to provide the student with an understanding of terrorism, both international and domestic. The course will explore the causes and effects of terrorism as they relate to political structures from both religious and historical perspectives; with particular focus on present day impacts.

This course will introduce students to public program budgeting and finance concepts. Special emphasis is given to methods of financing public programs and the preparation and management of budgets for the programs. This course is intended to provide students with an opportunity to learn and practice the technical aspects of program budgeting and finance in the public safety arena.

This course is intended to provide the student with advanced knowledge and understanding of the area of risk assessment and management. The course includes focus on critical infrastructure, threats, sharing information between communities and agencies, the collaboration of resources, and the management of risk. Students will examine the concepts of risk assessment, risk analysis, and the impacts of actual and suspected threats. Students will also study social justice, ethical issues, and legal issues in risk assessment.

The Capstone: Evaluation and Program Analysis in Criminal Justice course focuses on key concepts, methods, and issues in criminal justice program evaluation and performance measurement research. Program evaluation and performance measurement research methods are evaluated to determine their efficacy and applications. Finally, students will develop a program evaluation proposal on an existing public sector, nonprofit, or private criminal justice program.