CJS Program Learning Objective #1: Criminology and Justice Studies students will demonstrate essential qualifications for employment in criminology, criminal justice, and related occupations that include the mastery of core criminology and justice principles and the ability to think critically and to speak and write effectively within the field.
- Student Learning Outcome 1A: Students will critically apply core criminology and criminal justice principles to situations related to crime, criminal justice, and related areas of practice.
- Student Learning Outcome 1B: Students will effectively communicate in writing and speaking in the presentation of ideas and their application to issues and situations related to criminology and criminal justice.
CJS Program Learning Objective #2: Criminology and Justice Studies students will demonstrate the ability to apply criminological theory, research methods, and appropriate technology to assess, evaluate, and address issues in the practice of criminology and criminal justice.
- Student Learning Outcome 2A: Using core concepts from criminological theory, students will conduct a research study creating appropriate research questions, methodology, and analysis to draw valid, ethical, empirically-based conclusions.
- Student Learning Outcome 2B: Students will apply research findings to hypothetical or real case study situations in the practice of criminology and criminal justice.
CJS Program Learning Objective #3: Criminology and Justice Studies students will demonstrate a critical understanding of diversity and inequality as manifested in the criminal justice system locally, nationally, and globally. Students will apply these understandings to both study and practice of criminology and criminal justice including an engagement with diverse local and global communities around issues of crime, criminal justice, and other problem behaviors.
- Student Learning Outcome 3: Students will develop and apply a personal understanding of diversity and the way it impacts work in criminology and criminal justice.
CJS Program Learning Objective #4: Criminology and Justice Studies students will develop a fundamental commitment to ethical analysis, research, and practice and will demonstrate the ability to apply these principles to work within criminology, criminal justice, and related fields.
- Student Learning Outcome 4: Students will apply key principles in criminal justice ethics to analyze real life and hypothetical decision-making situations in the practice of criminal justice.