Course Listings

CJ 600 Qualitative Methods. This course examines qualitative methods focusing primarily on participant-observation, asking questions, writing field notes, and the transformation of these primary field data into written ethnographic documents. Students will also explore unstructured and semi-structured interviewing, direct observation, open-ended survey questions, and sampling from pre-existing texts. Prerequisite: Admission to CJ graduate program or permission of instructor. Three credit hours. Offered every semester.

CJ 601 Criminal Justice Leadership. Addresses visionary leadership applied to the administration of criminal justice. Includes an orientation to criminal justice graduate studies. Prerequisite: Admission to CJ graduate program or permission of instructor. Required of all students. Three credits. Offered fall  semester.

CJ 602 Legal and Ethical Issues. Provides students an opportunity to analyze the impact of constitutional, statutory, case, and administrative law on all segments of the criminal justice system. Ethical principles and professional standards are also studied. Prerequisites: Admission to CJ graduate program or permission of instructor and CJ 601 (may be taken concurrently) . Required of all students. Three credits. Offered fall semester of even numbered years.

CJ 603 Community and Media Relationships. Exemplary community crime prevention, policing, adult corrections, juvenile justice, and private security projects will be studied as a way to focus on building effective community and media relationships. Prerequisite: Admission to CJ graduate program and CJ 601 (may be taken concurrently). Required of all students. Three credits. Offered winter semester of odd-numbered years.

CJ 604 Criminal Justice Policy.  Policy formulation models and strategies will be studied and applied to crime control and other criminal justice agency missions. Multi-agency or cooperative policy formulation will be emphasized. Prerequisite: Admission to the CJ graduate program or permission of instructor and CJ 601 (may be taken concurrently). Required of all students. Three credits. Offered winter semester of odd-numbered years.

CJ 605 Program Evaluation. Survey of disciplinary relevant program evaluation research methods. Well-known criminal justice program evaluation studies will be critiqued and students will design evaluation research projects. Prerequisite: Admission to the graduate program or permission of instructor  and CJ 601 (may be taken concurrently). Required of all students. Three credits. Offered winter semester of even-numbered years.

CJ 606 Research Methodology and Data Analysis. Applied research methodologies utilized in criminal justice setting complimented by the use of computerized statistical software programs.  This course develops student's research capacity regarding the methods of collecting, analyzing and disseminating criminal justice research. Prerequisites: Admission to CJ graduate program or permission of instructor and CJ 601 (may be taken concurrently.) Required of all students starting Fall 2004. Three credits. Offered fall semester.

CJ 607 Criminology.  This course focuses on defining crime, tracing the evolution of criminological theories, and identifying the role that theory plays in the operation of the criminal justice system.  To achieve these objectives an examination of the way that crime is defined, measured, and understood will be utilized.  Prerequisites: Admission to CJ graduate program or permission of instructor. Required of all students starting Fall 2004. Three credits. Offered winter semester of even-numbered years.

CJ 611 Community Policing. Community policing philosophy, applications, issues, and contemporary research. Theoretical and practical aspects pertaining to the relationship between police agencies and the total community. Domestic and international community policing and problem solving models presented and analyzed. Prerequisites:  Admission to CJ graduate program or permission of instructor.  Three credits. Offered every semester.

CJ 620 Advanced Police Systems. In-depth study of police organizations, organizational and law enforcement system development, management philosophies and current issues of most concern to regional and national law enforcement executives. Prerequisite: Admission to CJ graduate program or permission by instructor. Three credits. Offered winter semester of odd-numbered years.

CJ 621 Advanced Corrections Systems. In-depth study of adult corrections organizations, organizational and system development, management philosophies and current issues of most concern to regional and national corrections executives. Prerequisite: Admission to CJ graduate program or permission of instructor. Three credits. Offered fall semester of even-numbered years.

CJ 622 Advanced Juvenile Justice Systems. In-depth study of juvenile justice organizations, organizational and system development, management philosophies and current issues of most concern to regional and national juvenile justice executives. Prerequisite: Admission to CJ graduate program or permission of instructor. Three credits. Offered fall semester of odd-numbered years.

CJ 623 Advanced Private Security Systems. In-depth study of private security organizations, organizational and system development, management philosophies and current issues of most concern to regional and national private security executives. Prerequisite: Admission to CJ graduate program or permission of instructor.  Three credits. Offered winter semester of even-numbered years.

CJ 640 Graduate Internship. A supervised criminal justice or private security agency administrative internship. Course is required of students who have no work experience in criminal justice or private security. Those who have prior work experience may earn internship credit with advisor approval. Credit/no credit. Prerequisite: Admission to CJ graduate program and permission of instructor. Three credits. Offered every semester.

CJ 642 Victimology. Examines patterns, current practice and trends concerning crime victims, including the role of victims in crime, their treatment by the criminal justice system, victims-blaming arguments, victims' decisions to report crimes and help prosecute offenders, victim assistance programs, victim compensation and restitution, and victim empowerment. Prerequisites: Admission to CJ graduate program or permission of instructor. Three credits. Offered fall semester of even-numbered years.

CJ 644 Forensic Behavior and Law. Forensic Behavior and Law examines the relationship among social/behavioral science research, law, and the legal system. Lectures and readings emphasis Supreme Court opinions where the Court has analyzed the use of social/behavioral science research. Research in criminal profiling, eyewitness identification, criminal/civil competency, and jury selection is addressed. Prerequisites: Admission to CJ graduate program or permission of instructor. Three credits. Offered fall semester of odd-numbered years.

CJ 680 Special Topics Seminar.  A seminar for the study of important topics not ordinarily covered in other courses.  Course may be taken more than once when topic is different.  Prerequisites: Admission to CJ graduate program or permission of instructor.  Three credits.  Offered on sufficient demand.

CJ 685 Criminal Justice Workshops. One-credit-hour workshops designed to provide students opportunities to learn from and study with people who have considerable expertise in special topics. Prerequisites may be established and advisor approval is required. No more than three credit hours of CJ 685 may be used to meet the graduate degree requirements. Offered every semester.

CJ 693 Criminal Justice Project. In cooperation with a criminal justice or private security agency and under faculty supervision, students will design a project to address the development of a particular policy or set of procedures for responding to specific administrative problems or issues within an agency or institution. Formal presentation of finished product required. Prerequisites: Admission to CJ graduate program, 18 credits of graduate coursework completed, approved committee and proposal, and permission of instructor (completion of core curriculum may be concurrent). Three credits. Offered every semester.

CJ 695 Criminal Justice Thesis. Preparation of an extensive research and writing assignment under faculty supervision. Involves working with a thesis committee and formal defense of the thesis. Prerequisites: Admission to CJ graduate program, 18 credits of graduate coursework completed, approved committee and proposal, and permission of instructor (completion of core curriculum may be concurrent). One to six credits. Offered every semester.

CJ 699 Directed Readings. A library research or readings project, program proposal, research proposal, or other activity requiring extensive readings that enhance the student's knowledge. Prerequisites: Admittance to the Criminal Justice graduate  program and permission of instructor. One to three credits. Offered every semester.

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