Applied Science in Criminal Justice

If you have been looking for criminal justice courses online, then continue reading about the following courses offered at Bryan College. Our online criminal justice classes are offered to students in the online Criminal Justice degree program and cover several critical areas of the field, including ethics, law, criminal procedures, and more. Students who are interested in online law enforcement classes and want to pursue a related career in criminal justice should contact Bryan College Online to learn more today.

Criminal Justice Courses

CA100 Introduction to Computer Software Management
4.5 Credit Hours
The student is introduced to the history of computers, operating systems and a basic understanding of modern software and the impact on the business environment. This course will allow students to become acquainted with the computer, integrated software, and vital Internet and online communications techniques through hands-on training. Emphasis is placed on computer hardware, correct operating systems software, and development of key boarding skills. The student is also introduced to email communications.

CA110 Introduction to Computer Applications
4.5 Credit Hours
This course provides the student with a basic understanding of modern software and the impact on the business environment. The course is designed to introduce the history of computers and information systems in an uncomplicated way to reach students with a wide range of backgrounds, interests, and skills. The course will allow students to become acquainted with the computer and integrated software through hands-on training.

CA120 Strategies for Success
4.5 Credit Hours
The student will develop skills related to goal setting, personal accountability, positive attitudes and beliefs, enhanced expectations, self-efficacy building, teamwork, planning, improved performance, higher quality of life, and overall personal development.

GEN101 Introduction to Algebra
4.5 Credit Hours
This course is the study of real numbers and variables. Topics studied include operations involving real numbers and algebraic expressions, solving linear equations and inequalities, graphs of linear equations and inequalities, simplifying rational expressions and exponents, factoring and radicals.

GEN115 Foreign Language
4.5 Credit Hours
This course is an introduction to understanding, speaking, reading, and writing a foreign language. Students acquire language functions, vocabulary, structures and culture through contextualized presentation, interactive activities and laboratory practices.

GEN120 Composition I
4.5 Credit Hours
This is the basic writing course, designed to improve writing skills. The student writes essays wherein organization and proper usage is stressed. The student will also write a research paper with appropriate format and documentation.

GEN130 Introduction to American Politics
4.5 Credit Hours
In this course a student will study the institutions and constitutional framework of the United States government and survey the structure and development of city and state government systems. The course is developed to teach values, rights, and responsibilities that shape the public decision making of an active and informed citizen, and influence contemporary public affairs in a democratic society.

GEN140 Psychology
4.5 Credit Hours
This general psychology course is intended to provide the student with a basic understanding of what psychology is, its relationships to the life sciences and how behaviors affect people’s everyday lives. Emphasis is placed on developmental psychology and the problems that people face in regards to relationships and the mental and physical dilemmas they may pose. Topics such as stress, altered states of consciousness, aging, conflicts and types of therapies will be presented.

GEN180 Technical Writing
4.5 Credit Hours
This course explores the writing skills, proper organization of information, and document formatting required of the professional business and technical writer, with an emphasis on the clear, concise presentation of information. Course topics include application letters, resumes, brochures, reports, instructions and instruction manuals, web content, graphic illustrations, collaborative writing, and ethical considerations. Working in collaborative groups, students will be expected to complete an organizational operations manual by the close of the course.

GEN200 College Algebra
4.5 Credit Hours
This course is an in-depth study of the traditional topics of college algebra. These topics include solving linear and quadratic equations and inequalities, graphs of equations and inequalities, operations involving polynomials and rational expressions, exponents, radicals, and introduction to exponential and logarithmic functions.

CJ100 Legal Ethics
4.5 Credit Hours
This course is designed to provide students with critical thinking skills needed to deal with increasingly complex ethical issues in today’s professional legal field. In addition, this course provides an understanding of legal terminology, procedures, and applications regarding ethics. Emphasis will be placed on the consequences of individual conduct in a variety of employment environments.

CJ110 Criminal Law
4.5 Credit Hours
This course is designed to provide a basic understanding of criminal law. This course will emphasize state law, historical common law and constitutional law issues. Students will become familiar with the elements of crimes, criminal intent, defenses to crimes and the differences between felonies and misdemeanors.

CJ115 Criminal Procedures
4.5 Credit Hours
This course is designed to provide an in-depth understanding of criminal law procedures and applications. Students will become familiar with basic rights in a criminal prosecution, such as the presumption of innocence, the government’s burden of proof and the concept of reasonable doubt. Emphasis will be placed on the understanding of applicable Constitutional Amendments. In addition, students will understand the court process in state criminal justice system.

CJ120 Criminal Justice Administration
4.5 Credit Hours
This course is designed to provide a basic understanding of the criminal justice system which consists of the police, courts and corrections. Students will become familiar with the history of law enforcement and its duty to protect society, as well as the court system’s balancing of an individual’s rights versus social control. The course will also explore the role of corrections in punishing criminals while attempting to rehabilitate them to return to society. The major emphasis will be placed upon state criminal justice administration.

CJ200 Criminal Investigation
4.5 Credit Hours
This course is designed to provide students with the basic theoretical and philosophical understanding of the investigatory process. Analysis of problems encountered in interviewing, interrogating, evidence collection, and admissibility will be examined. It is also designed to be an objective analysis of the formal social control in our society, including the philosophies, limitations, technologies, and responsibilities of investigators.

CJ205 Introduction to Law Enforcement
4.5 Credit Hours
This course is designed to provide the student with the basic theory, and application and philosophy of policing in our society. In addition, this course will give an overview of the different levels of law enforcement, their roles, and how police agencies are organized. Information about the jobs available in law enforcement and the skills needed in order to obtain these jobs will also be discussed.

CJ210 Criminology
4.5 Credit Hours
This course is designed to examine criminal behavior as it relates to several varieties of crime. Major emphasis will be placed on the evolution of criminological theories. This course also deals with analysis of present-day programs and trends in the criminal justice system’s response to victims. The historical and emerging roles of victimology as a field of study are examined and discussed.

CJ215 Introduction to Security
4.5 Credit Hours
This course is designed to provide students with an introduction to the world of security and addresses the nature, scope, and history of security services. The course will introduce the essential elements of private and public security, as well as types of security organizations. Information about jobs available in the security field and the skills needed in order to obtain these jobs will also be discussed.

CJ220 Introduction to Corrections
4.5 Credit Hours
This course is designed to offer a practical analysis of corrections in the American criminal justice system. The course covers and explores various aspects of the social history of punishment, staff and inmate safety, prisoner rights litigation, overcrowding, gender and ethnicity, special needs, gang control strategies, and growth of supermax prisons. The course also identifies theories of the environmental conditions and subcultures within a correctional setting. In addition, this course can serve as a useful introduction to career planning for employment in the corrections fields.

CJ225 Case Report Writing
4.5 Credit Hours
This course defines the basic elements of criminal justice report writing and describes the writing process, style, research, and techniques necessary for complete, clear, and concise reporting. Emphasis is on criminal justice writing applications.

CJ400 Criminal Justice Externship
4.5 Credit Hours
Students will be assigned to a criminal justice setting where they will utilize the essential skills they have developed throughout their program. This experience is designed to provide students with actual on-the-job learning activities in the criminal justice environment under the direct supervision of local law enforcement professional.

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