Course Descriptions

Criminal Justice

CJA-008: CJA-Topics/Seminars Criminal Justice/Corrections Instruction [ Not Offered Every Term | 0 - credits ] Various topical workshops/seminars related to law enforcement/corrections fields.

CJA-101: Introduction to Criminology [ Spring Term | 3 - credits ] 3 class hours/week Discusses the nature and control of crime and delinquency. Examines criminal behaviors, legal aspects of crime control and treatment processes. Socio-psychological study of crime from the criminal point of view. May be offered online.

CJA-110: Introduction to Law Enforcement [ Fall Term | 3 - credits ] 3 class hours/week Explores the theories, philosophies, and concepts of U.S. criminal justice administration. Examines past, present, future operations of criminal justice including unique vocabulary used within the system. Studies interrelated components of the U.S. criminal justice system. May be offered online.

CJA-112: Patrol Procedures [ Fall Term | 3 - credits ] 3 class hours/week Describes the nature and purpose of patrol activities for the law enforcement officer. Includes routine and emergency procedures and types of patrols.

CJA-120: Introduction to Judicial Process [ Winter Term | 3 - credits ] 3 class hours/week Studies the judicial and social processes from arrest through appeal including jurisdiction of state and federal courts. May be offered online.

CJA-122: Criminal Law [ Winter Term | 3 - credits ] 3 class hours/week. Examines the elements, purpose and functions of criminal, traffic, juvenile and liquor laws. (Formerly Oregon Law)

CJA-130: Introduction to Corrections [ FA/WI | 3 - credits ] 3 class hours/week Examines the history, organization, and development of correctional institutions. Includes detention facilities and treatment processes such as sentencing, incarceration, probation and parole. May be offered online.

CJA-134: Correctional Institutions [ Winter Term | 3 - credits ] 3 class hours/week. Analyzes prisons, jails & other correctional institutions. Discusses punishment history/rationale. Identifies functions of custodial staff and describes institutional procedures: reception, classification, program assignment, and release. Studies prisons management system and examines juvenile facilities. May be offered online.

CJA-137: Mass Murder/Serial Killers [ Not Offered Every Term | 3 - credits ] 3 class hours/week. Exploration into mass murders & serial killings, and impact each has on society. Examine issues of causation & social environmental linkage of recent & notorious cases & the mind set of the offenders.

CJA-138: Terrorism/Impact/Strategies [ NOTYR | 3 - credits ] 3 class hours/week. Examines domestic/international threat of terrorism and basic security issues facing law enforcement today including information and discussion on historical social causes of terrorism.

CJA-140: Introduction to Crime Analysis [ All Terms | 1 - credits ] 1 class hour/week. Examines the history and development of crime analysis in the field of criminal justice. Identify three categories of crime analysis; the four functions within each category; and the tasks and products associated with each category. Offered on-line.

CJA-141: Introduction to Crime Mapping [ All Terms | 1 - credits ] 11 hours/term. Examines the evolution of crime mapping in law enforcement. Describes basic uses: tactical, strategic, and administrative crime analysis. Includes: pin map, grid mapping, GIS for crime analysis, geo-coding for Law Enforcement. Prerequisite: CJA-140.

CJA-142: Statistics for Crime Analysis [ All Terms | 1 - credits ] 11 hours/term. Introduces mathematical/statistical tools needed for simple crime analysis through statistics. Prerequisite:CJA-140.

CJA-143: Crime Analysis Via Statistical Analysis [ All Terms | 1 - credits ] 11 hours/week. Explores statistical tools application in crime analysis and demonstrates use in: Tactical, Strategic, and Administrative Crime Analysis using case-study method. Prerequisites: CJA-140, CJA-142.

CJA-144: Crime Analysis Via Modus Operandi [ All Terms | 1 - credits ] 11 hours/term. Examines tatical crime analysis through Modus Operandi analysis, characteristics to identify factors for crime types/classifications to provide solvability factors and suspect identification. Prerequisite: CJA-140.

CJA-145: Crime Analysis Capstone [ All Terms | 1 - credits ] 11 hours/term. Final course of basic Crime Analysis series. Case study methodology used to formulate real decisions, use of proper application of statistical and mapping tools, including modus operandi analysis. Only offered online. Prerequisites: CJA-140, CJA-142, CJA-144.

CJA-146: Crime Analysis/Link Analysis [ All Terms | 1 - credits ] 11 class hours/term. Examines tactical crime analysis through Link Analysis and other forms of graphic analysis. Presents development of the graphic analytical techniques of link analysis, flow chart analysis, and telephone toll analysis. Prerequisite: CJA-140.

CJA-147: Intro Profiling Violent Crimes [ All Terms | 1 - credits ] 11 hours/term. Examines: psychological profiling history: arson, murder, rape, pedophilia, terrorism, and misuses, such as racial profiling. Offered on-line. Prerequisite: CJA-140.

CJA-148: Crime Scene Analysis: Profiling [ All Terms | 1 - credits ] 11 class hrs/term. Provides case-study methodology using rape and serial murder psychological profile examples. Offered on-line. Prerequisites: CJA-140, CJA-147.

CJA-149: Research Methods/Crime Analysis [ All Terms | 1 - credits ] 1 class hour/week. Examines statistical information needed for research of administrative crime analysis. Demonstrates survey methodology for measuring crime and its impact. Offered on-line. Prerequistite: CJA-140.

CJA-150: Intro to Police Intelligence [ All Terms | 1 - credits ] 11 class hours/term. Examines basic police intelligence mission. Demonstrates five-step intelligence process, illustrates differences between tactical (investigative unit) intelligence, strategic intelligence, and operational intelligence. Discusses legal limitations to intelligence information gathering. Prerequisite: CJA-140.

CJA-151: Criminal Intelligence Analysis [ All Terms | 1 - credits ] 11 class hours/term. Discusses legal limitations to intelligence information gathering: basic police intellligence mission and five-step intelligence process. Illustrates differences between tactical (investigative unit) intelligence, strategic intelligence, and operational intelligence. Offered on-line. Prerequisites: CJA-140, CJA-150.

CJA-152: Criminal Scene Analysis: Capstone [ All Terms | 1 - credits ] 11 class hrs/term. Final course in basic Crime Scene Analysis series uses case-study methodology to examine a crime scene and formulate real decisions using the proper application of analytical tools. Offered on-line. Prerequisites: CJA-140, CJA-147, CJA-148, CJA-149.

CJA-153: Criminal Intelligence Analysis Capstone [ All Terms | 1 - credits ] 11 class hours/term Final part of Criminal Intelligence Analysis series. Students demonstrate: threat assessments, threat summaries, threat estimates, crime intelligence analysis reports, recommendations, and supporting documentation, such as link analysis tools. Offered on-line. Prerequisites: CJA-140, CJA-146, CJA-150, CJA-151.

CJA-170: Careers in Criminal Justice Fields [ All Terms | 3 - credits ] 33 lecture hours. Discusses career opportunities throughout the criminal justice system, including law enforcement, the practice of law, courts, corrections, and private security. Addresses hiring, promotions, and workplace ethics. This course is required as preparation for participation in Criminal Justice/Corrections,Cooperative Work Experience.

CJA-199: Special Studies CJ/Corrections [ All Terms | 1 - 6 credits ] Emphasis on special topics of interest to the law enforcement/corrections community.

CJA-200: Community Relations & Policing [ Fall Term | 3 - credits ] 33 class hours/term. Examines interrelationships and role expectations of agencies and public policy. Explores racial community tension, minority group crime, social forces, community policing and police image. May be offered on-line.

CJA-201: Juvenile Delinquency [ WI/SP | 3 - credits ] 33 class hours/term Surveys the nature and extent of delinquent behavior. Explores causes, legal apprehension, controls and treatment. May be offered online.

CJA-203: Crisis Intervention [ Spring Term | 3 - credits ] 3 class hours/week Examines crisis intervention as it applies to emergency service workers. Includes psychodynamics of family crisis; alcohol/drug related problems; suicide; sexual assault victims; domestic violence; mentally disturbed individuals; neglected, battered, abused children.

CJA-210: Criminal Investigation I [ Fall Term | 3 - credits ] 3 class hours/week Introduces the history, theory, and principles of criminal investigation in the justice system. Describes crime scene investigation and courtroom aspects of a crime scenes including interviews, evidence, surveillance, follow-up, case preparation, and techniques for specific crimes.

CJA-211: Criminal Investigation II [ Winter Term | 3 - credits ] 3 class hours/week. Continues the study and application of investigative techniques for specific offenses. Identifies similarities, differences, and elements of proof needed under state statutes. Prerequisite: CJA-210.

CJA-212: Criminal Investigation III [ Spring Term | 3 - credits ] 3 class hours/week. Final part of the Criminal Investigation series. Applies techniques acquired in CJA-210 Criminal Investigation I and CJA-211 Criminal Investigation II. Includes investigative techniques from a practical aspect, with some "hands-on" experimentation, including fingerprinting, photography, diagramming, and reconstruction. Prerequisite: CJA-211.

CJA-213: Interview & Interrogation [ Winter Term | 3 - credits ] 3 class hours/week. Examines the dynamics of psychology in criminal interrogation and legal limitation. Includes behavior observation and interpretation, and the use of structured questions to acquire truthful responses.

CJA-220: Substantive Law [ Winter Term | 3 - credits ] 3 class hours/week. Studies historical development, philosophy of law, and constitutional provisions. Examines the definition and classification of crime, application of administration of justice, legal research, study of case law, methodology, and concepts of law as a social force.

CJA-222: Procedural Law [ Spring Term | 3 - credits ] 3 class hours/week Discusses the constitutional and statutory provisions related to arrest, search and seizure. Includes use of deadly force, admissions, interrogations, plain view limitations, law of stop and frisk, and officer testimony.

CJA-223: Criminal Justice Ethics [ Fall Term | 3 - credits ] 3 class hour/week. Introduces ethical issues, questions/challenges facing policing/corrections professionals. Emphasizes recognition of ethical issues, personal/professional skills in decision making and consequences of unethical conduct, and the Law Enforcement Code of Ethics.

CJA-230: Juvenile Corrections [ Spring Term | 3 - credits ] 3 class hours/week. Studies historical and contemporary perspectives on juvenile offenders, juvenile code, juvenile court and procedures. Describes treatment programs and the differences between adult and juvenile court laws and procedures.

CJA-232: Corrections Casework [ Fall Term | 3 - credits ] 3 class hours/week. Describes interviewing and counseling techniques used by corrections officers in one-to-one contacts with clients. Stresses positive relationships and behavior modification related to the reintegration process.

CJA-233: Public Safety Intervention/Mental Health Issues [ All Terms | 3 - credits ] Equips Public Safety workers in a wide variety of fields with a basic understanding and knowledge concerning persons with mental illness and dispels inaccurate perceptions.

CJA-240: Cultural Diversity/Law Enforcement [ Spring Term | 3 - credits ] 3 class hours/week. Provides information and guidelines on how law enforcement professionals can work effectively with diverse cultural groups, both inside their organizations as well as in the community. Explores racial profiling, hate crimes, community based policing, undocumented immigrants, and alternative lifestyles in law enforcement.

CJA-243: Narcotics & Dangerous Drugs [ Winter Term | 3 - credits ] 33 class hours/term Introduces the societal problems of drug abuse (alcohol, drugs, narcotics). Includes identification of drugs and causes of addiction. Examines investigative techniques, i.e. undercover, sting, and use of manipulation of informants. May be offered on-line.

CJA-280: Criminal Justice/Corrections/CWE [ All Terms | 1 - 6 credits ] 18 lecture hours/216 jobsite hours. Identifies employment opportunities in the criminal justice or corrections systems. Students must be enrolled full-time in the criminal justice or corrections program. Inclusive CWE seminar. Required: Instructor consent and course-associated practicum. Corequisite: CJA-280 seminar.

CJA-281: Criminal Justice/Corrections/CWE [ All Terms | 1 - 6 credits ] 18 lecture hours/216 jobsite hours. Identifies employment opportunities in the criminal justice or corrections systems. Students must be enrolled full-time in the criminal justice or corrections program. Inclusive CWE seminar. Required: Instructor consent and course-associated practicum. Prerequisite: Successful completion of CJA-280. Corequisite: CJA-281 seminar.