CJ 251 Criminal Justice Work Based Learning (4 credits)
Prerequisite Program Coordinator or instructor approval required.
Course Description
A supervised professional experience in a criminal justice agency that develops students’ understanding of organizational culture, ethical practice, and inter-agency dynamics. Students enhance their problem-solving, communication, and cultural competency skills while exploring career opportunities and their role as effective citizens in the criminal justice field.
Course Content
A. Agency organizational environment/culture
B. Learning in a professional context
C. Professionalism/ethics
D. Effective citizenship
E. Communications within and among criminal justice agencies
F. Problem solving techniques for the workplace
G. Working with people from diverse backgrounds
H. Career development and opportunities
Student Outcomes
1. Evaluate how personal biases and positionality influence professional practice in criminal justice settings.
2. Analyze the relationship between criminal justice agencies and their served communities.
3. Apply organizational protocols and chain of command in professional settings.
4. Demonstrate effective professional performance in criminal justice settings through clear communication, protocol adherence, adaptability to feedback, and evidence-based evaluation of safety practices.
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 craft and exchange ideas and information in a variety of situations, in response to audience, context, purpose, and motivation.
Information Literacy: Graduates will be critical users, creators, and disseminators of information by examining how information is created, valued, and influenced by power and privilege.
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 90
Total Contact Hours 100
Potential Methods
A. Oral interview
B. Self evaluation
C. Supervisor evaluation
D. Peer evaluation
E. Journal
F. Seminar
G. Project
H. Essay
I. Portfolio
J. Reports
K. Presentation
L. Assessment Center
M. Objective test
N. Subjective test
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