?Learning Objectives

• Students will critique and evaluate the various components of the criminal justice system.
• Students will identify career goals and pathways to evaluate, enhance, and improve the criminal justice system using evidence-based approaches.
• Students will further understand, analyze, appraise, and evaluate, both written and orally, a variety of criminology-based theories and their application in terms of logical consistency, scope, parsimony, and spuriousness and their relationship to public policy and issues in criminology.
• Students will integrate and apply analytical skills and substantive knowledge to specific problems in criminology.
• Students will highlight the role of diversity and the human experience in the application and study of criminology and criminology?related policies.
• Students will critically evaluate, synthesize, and analyze informational sources about criminal law, policing, corrections, research and social justice.
• Students will explore a variety of ethical/moral issues, which characterize and define the different facets of criminology/criminal justice, to better relate and understand the issues and challenges that have historically and currently exist.