Program Overview
The online Bachelor of Science Criminal Justice is designed for students seeking to move into a professional career in the criminal justice field or for those already in the profession wishing to upgrade their skills or to seek new professional competencies.
Students graduating from the BS Criminal Justice program will be prepared to consider a wide range of potential career options such as pre-law, law enforcement, administration, investigation, social services, and human resources.
Students can enhance their career opportunities by choosing the General Criminal Justice program, or to specialize in one of three concentration areas, Law Enforcement, Administration or Cyber-Criminology.
- The General Criminal Justice program is designed for students seeking a career in a variety of criminal justice fields such as law enforcement, security, corrections, juvenile and adult supervision services as well as more generalized fields of application.
- The Law Enforcement concentration is focused on preparing the student with coursework specifically designed for those desiring to become Law Enforcement Officers.
- The Criminal Justice Administration concentration prepares the student for advancement into administrative areas and their associated duties.
- Students specializing in Cyber-Criminology will be prepared to enter into information security and related computer crime, the newest and potentially the most exciting and growing of criminal justice fields.
The BS Criminal Justice program courses are open for enrollment once a month.
Program Objectives
In addition to attainment of general education learning objectives, graduates from the Bachelor of Science Criminal Justice program will be able to:
- Explain the fundamental concepts underlying the U.S. criminal justice system.
- Describe the roles and functions of the criminal-justice system and its subordinate agencies in a democratic society.
- Analyze subordinate agencies in a democratic society.
- Assess justice issues involving the criminal justice system, criminal behavior and theories, and applied human relations sciences.
- Describe the theories applied to human relations sciences.
- Analyze the strengths and weaknesses of applied criminal justice approaches presently used.
- Apply law and legal theory to the functions of criminal justice.
- Synthesize knowledge of the criminal justice system, its theoretical foundations and applied methods in research of a criminal justice issue.
- Relate the theoretical foundations and applied methods in research of a criminal justice issue.
Delivery Method: Structured Independent Study
