CJ 253 Criminal Justice Work Based Learning (6 credits)

2. Identify internal and external customers of the criminal justice agency.

3. Describe the relationship with and responsibilities of a criminal justice agency to the community(s) it serves.

4. Identify the significance of organizational “chain of command” in responding to accountability and community safety.

5. Communicate (orally and in writing) in ways that minimize conflict and maximize clarity.

6. Support the mission of your selected agency or department through personal and professional actions.

7. Perform expected duties of the criminal justice agency as outlined in expectations provided by your supervisor.

8. Collaborate at regular intervals with criminal justice agency supervision to further develop skills, realign expectations and duties, or change responsibilities.

9. Work effectively with internal and external customers.

10. Research employment opportunities and application processes of your selected criminal justice agency or department.

11. Relate prior academic theory to current work experience.

Degree Outcomes
Programs Outcome: Graduates will develop and maintain personal and professional relationships through respect, clear boundaries, empathy and honest interactions.

Global Citizenship: Graduates will be able to critically examine the relationship between self, community, and/or environments, and to evaluate and articulate potential impacts of choices, actions, and contributions for the creation of sustainable and equitable systems.

Critical, Creative and Reflective Thinking: Graduates will evaluate, analyze and synthesize information and ideas in order to construct informed, meaningful and justifiable conclusions.

Effective Communication: Graduates will be able to exchange messages in a variety of contexts using multiple methods.

Information Competency: Graduates will be able to seek, find, evaluate and use information, and employ information technology to engage in lifelong learning.

Intercultural Engagement: Graduates demonstrate self-efficacy in intercultural engagement to advance equity, diversity, and inclusion through reflections and expressions of cultural humility, empathy, and social and civic engagement and action. Further, graduates examine how identities/positionalities such as races, social classes, genders, sexual orientations, disabilities, and cultures impact perceptions, actions, and the distribution of power and privilege in communities, systems, and institutions.

Lecture Contact Hours 10
Lab Contact Hours 0
Clinical Contact Hours 180-216
Total Contact Hours 190-226