Bachelor of Science in Criminal Justice Administration

Provide students with the communication, analytical and leadership skills, and knowledge that are needed to make the modern criminal justice organization run as efficiently and effectively as possible.  Graduates of the program work in a wide variety of public and private organizations, including positions as law enforcement systems analysts/administrators, law enforcement supervisors, legal office managers, security managers, parole administrators, and corrections supervisors.

The program format provides an environment that employs active learning techniques and gives students the ability to expand their critical thinking and leadership skills while applying course material directly to occupational challenges.

Students in this program can expect to learn how to:

• Understand the development of the modern criminal justice system from a variety of historical and contemporary societal inputs,
• Evaluate and improve their own management styles by reflecting on personality characteristics, time/stress management, conflict resolution, teamwork, communication, and decision-making approaches,
• Assess legal and ethical issues in the organization,
• Employ research skills and statistical analysis in the criminal justice field,
• Develop personnel and equipment acquisition procedures,
• Understand development and use of management information systems by managers and other leaders to improve information gathering,
• Apply strategic planning and budgeting approaches in the criminal justice organizations,
• Plan and prepare for tactical operations in criminal justice organization,
• Develop and plan a community policing approach to contemporary society, and
• Conduct an in-depth analysis of a current criminal justice issue, and propose possible solutions.