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The mental and physical wellbeing of peace officers will be focused on and students will be required to assess their vulnerabilities to intrapersonal and interpersonal stressors. Students will develop tactics and strategies for managing their mental and physical wellbeing, while understanding how those strategies may have to change over time. Must be a major or minor in Corrections, Criminal Justice, Law Enforcement, or Peace Officer Program.
- Areas of Interest:
- Law, Public Safety, Corrections, and Security
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The course will provide the student with a solid foundation in effective peace officer communications and prepare the student analytically for a career as a peace officer. This course also has a writing intensive requirement that involves drafting, editing, and reviewing a variety of written assignments.Must be a major or minor in Corrections, Criminal Justice, and/or Peace Officer (Law Enforcement) Programs.
- Graduation Requirements:
- Writing Intensive
- Areas of Interest:
- Law, Public Safety, Corrections, and Security
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A more in-depth survey of methods and techniques for the investigation of crimes. This course builds off the foundation of LAWE233: Criminal Investigation.
This course is designed to provide specialized training to students pursuing a career in policing, with a focus on maintaining good health and well-being. Police are required to pass skills training (police academy). This course offers specific education tailored to prepare them for the academy and equip them with the necessary skills to maintain their physical health.
- Areas of Interest:
- Law, Public Safety, Corrections, and Security
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JOLT is a collaborative effort between the University and several probation offices. Students will mentor delinquents in the community and be mentored by local probation officers. This is a year-long commitment.
JOLT-II is a second semester continuation of CORR 350. Can only enroll after completing CORR 350.
Students will engage in community experiences, public service interactions, experiences with a variety of diverse groups, and/or interactive panels that will provide for opportunities to reflect, observe, conceptualize, and grow as a future criminal justice professional.
- Areas of Interest:
- Law, Public Safety, Corrections, and Security
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An examination of issues facing criminal justice today in constantly changing legal, social and cultural environments. Topics will vary and may be repeated for credit.
- Areas of Interest:
- Law, Public Safety, Corrections, and Security
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Advanced Crime Theory & Prevention provides an overview of the nature and causes of crime and victimization. Using a multidisciplinary approach, the course surveys theories of criminal behavior at the macro- & micro-level. Students will learn how to evaluate criminological theories. The course also covers the link between theory and crime prevention efforts, focusing primarily on how crime prevention efforts employed by legislatures, police, courts, and corrections agencies in the United States are derived from theory.
- Areas of Interest:
- Law, Public Safety, Corrections, and Security
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The course will examine the issue of ethics as it applies to the criminal justice profession to include why criminal justice professionals sometimes fail to live up to our community expectations and how those new to the profession can learn from the lessons of others and avoid ethical pitfalls. The course also delves into the issue of leadership and frames the concept within the criminal justice context while linking to examples of leadership from a diverse field of experiences.
- Graduation Requirements:
- Writing Intensive
- Areas of Interest:
- Law, Public Safety, Corrections, and Security
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Addresses theoretical roots, historical developments, and current practices of probation, parole, and other community corrections programs. Special attention is given to innovative, future approaches to community corrections. Writing intensive
- Graduation Requirements:
- Writing Intensive
- Areas of Interest:
- Law, Public Safety, Corrections, and Security
- Programs:
This course focuses on mass incarceration (including the policies that produced and maintains it) in addition to the concept of recidivism (how it is defined/measured, and how it represents, for better or worse, the antithesis of the intended goals of community reentry after release from prison). In that framework, the course explores various obstacles and facilitators of successful community reentry. Students are expected to gain an understanding of crime policy, its limitations, as well as concrete ways to facilitate community reentry despite factors that impede it.
- Areas of Interest:
- Law, Public Safety, Corrections, and Security
- Programs:
Principles and methods of individual and group counseling with juvenile and adult offenders; development of interpersonal helping skills, negotiation, and mediation skills.
- Areas of Interest:
- Law, Public Safety, Corrections, and Security
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This class will be taught in modules where students will gain learn how to determine if practices in Corrections are evidence based, the types of programming in Corrections that are supported by research, and skills and knowledge necessary to implement these practices.
- Areas of Interest:
- Law, Public Safety, Corrections, and Security
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This course will cover the basic techniques of writing reports, memoranda, forms, and other documents used in the peace officer profession. This is a writing-intensive course that will not only fulfill MN POST Report Writing requirements, but will also require students to compose numerous documents and respond to writing feedback throughout the semester.
- Graduation Requirements:
- Writing Intensive
- Areas of Interest:
- Law, Public Safety, Corrections, and Security
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This course is designed to provide peace officer students with a more thorough understanding of a variety of ethnicities, cultures, and groups in Minnesota and elsewhere throughout the country.
- Areas of Interest:
- Law, Public Safety, Corrections, and Security
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Senior Seminar is a capstone course that is specifically designed for Peace Officer Program students to be eligible to become licensed peace officers. This course will assist the student in several areas to include preparation for the MN POST test, interviewing skills, critical thinking and decision making skills, scenario based learning, and job application skills.
- Areas of Interest:
- Law, Public Safety, Corrections, and Security
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This course explores the history, development and current role of federal agencies that have enforcement authority in the United States. This course also explores the history, implementation, and role of Homeland Security, along with the integration of purpose, action, and enforcement between Homeland Security, federal enforcement agencies, and local peace officer agencies with a lens of legal, policy, and cooperation strategies at the federal, state, and local levels.
This course complements the learning experience of traveling on a faculty led study abroad trip. The focus will be a comparison of terrorism, political violence, and counter-terrorism activities in the United States to the same activities in the visited countries based on readings, research, observation, and participation. Instructor permission is required to register for this course.
This course complements the learning experience of traveling on a faculty led study abroad trip. The focus will be on a comparison of international justice systems in a variety of countries based on readings, research, observation, and participation. Instructor permission is required to register for this course.
This course is an introductory course for upper level criminal justice undergraduate students about terrorism and political violence both internationally and domestically. The course will focus on defining terrorism, understanding the impact of terrorism, and thinking about actions that criminal justice agencies can take to respond to terrorism.
A comparison of criminal justice philosophies, structures, and procedures found in various countries around the world.
- Areas of Interest:
- Law, Public Safety, Corrections, and Security
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Legal procedures by which state and federal administrative agencies exercise legislative, judicial and executive powers. Emphasis is placed on the constitutional position of administrative agencies, the rule making process, the power of agencies to decide rights and obligations concerning individual cases, and judicial control of administrative action.
Review of selected U.S. Supreme Court decisions relating to the powers of the President, Congress and the Judiciary, as well as the division of power between the states and the federal government. Focus is on case briefing, underlying rationales, and the development of individual analytical abilities.
Review of selected United States Supreme Court decisions interpreting important freedoms contained in the Bill of Rights and the 14th Amendment. Focus is on the rationale which underlies decisions and its impact on American political social processes. Provides an opportunity to exercise and develop individual analytical abilities through analysis of Court's reasoning. Same as POL 454.