Program Student Learning Outcomes

• Communicate effectively and appropriately in written and oral form.
• Apply critical thinking to modern criminal justice practices, procedures, and policies, as well as other disciplines.
• Perform the basic operations of personal computer use and employ basic research techniques to locate, evaluate, and synthesize information from a variety of sources.
• Describe the development of the US criminal justice system, its structures, laws, and functions, and how the system fits within the US democratic system.
• Explain the importance of ethical behavior by criminal justice professionals as part of the social contract between a diverse citizenry and the criminal justice system.
• Apply contemporary management?and leadership concepts and theories.
• Show how theories of crime, crime prevention, treatment, and punishment have impacted public policy in the US.
• Show the connections between US constitutional law and state and local criminal law and procedures.
• Evaluate the importance of diversity training for criminal justice professionals across all levels and parts of the US system.
• Demonstrate knowledge of the causes and consequences of crime.