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The Department of Criminal Justice offers a strong core of required courses, enhanced by an eclectic variety of electives designed to meet the interests and needs of our students. Each course is taught by a qualified faculty member who has direct experience the particular subject matter. Criminal Justice is very interdisciplinary in nature. Students interested in Criminal Justice may be interested in careers ranging from juvenile rehabilitation, to law enforcement, to criminal prosecution. Because the career choices are so varied, we ensure flexibility in the program requirements so that we can tailor the student's course selections to his or her professional goals. In this regard, students work closely with advisors to select courses each semester. Course material is constantly updated to incorporate the ever-changing base of knowledge in this quickly evolving field. We offer such diverse electives as Organized Crime and Terrorism, Criminal Behavior, Assessment of the Offender, Evidence and Trial Advocacy, Contemporary Legal Issues, and Criminalistics, to name just a few. We also offer a content-flexible course called "Topical Seminar". By means of this course, we can address the most current issues in Criminal Justice. For this course, topics include "Psychology of Arson and Sex Offenders", "Computer Crime", "Organized Crime and Terrorism", "Crime and the Civil War", "Gender and Crime". The Department is constantly reviewing its curriculum, and ensuring that it includes the very latest data and information. It is an exciting and rapidly changing field, and that vitality is reflected in the program. |
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