Course Descriptions
CJE 345: Comparative Criminal Justice. A course designed to examine the nature, location, and impact of crime in the United States including its historical foundations, theories of criminality, measurement of crime, typologies, and public policies concerning crime control with emphasis on cross-cultural perspectives. Prerequisites: CJE 101 and CJE 215 with grades of C or better. Credit: 3 semester hours.
CJE 350: Criminal Justice Ethics. A course designed to examine the theoretical foundations of ethics, ethical decision-making, and ethical issues confronting the criminal justice system, its processes and personnel. Prerequisites: CJE 101 and CJE 220 with grades of C or better. Credit: 3 semester hours.
CJE 410: Criminal Justice Administration. The study of the principles of organization, administration, leadership, management, and function of criminal justice agencies, including problem-solving, planning, and evaluation techniques used by criminal justice administrators. Prerequisites: CJE 101 and CJE 220 with grades of C or better. Credit: 3 semester hours.
CJE 415: Seminar in Criminal Justice. The study of special issues in criminal justice. Special emphasis is placed upon solutions to particular administrative problems. Prerequisite: CJE 410 or consent of instructor. Credit: 3 semester hours.
CJE 430: Criminal Justice Internship. A supervised placement in a criminal justice agency which enables students to obtain practical experience in a criminal justice setting. Prerequisites: CJE 215 and CJE 330 or consent of instructor. Credit: 3 semester hours.
CJE 433: Research Methods in Criminal Justice. An in-depth research effort. To include an introduction to basic logic, knowledge and skills of research design and methodology. Prerequisite: Consent of instructor. Credit: 3 semester hours.
CJE 434: Statistics for Criminal Justice. This course serves as an introduction to the use of statistics as a method of describing and analyzing data from research in Criminal Justice with an emphasis on applied methods. Prerequisites: CJE/SOW 433 and MAT 111 or higher. Credit: 3 semester hours.
CREDIT FOR LIFE EXPERIENCE
CLE 299: Portfolio Development. Required course for all students seeking credit through assessment of educationally valid life experiences. Instructs students in developing documented portfolio of non-sponsored, prior experiential learning. Graded Pass/Fail. Prerequisites: ENG 101, MAT 111, and consent of instructor. Credit: 3 semester hours.
COOPERATIVE EDUCATION
COE 291: Cooperative Education I. Work experience opportunity in a field related to student's academic interests. Graded Pass/Fail except for internship required for major. Prerequisites: 30 semester credit hours of course work and consent of advisor. (Hours arranged). Credit: 312 semester hours.
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COE 391: Cooperative Education II. Work experience opportunity in a field related to student's academic interests. Graded Pass/Fail except for internship required for major. Prerequisites: One semester of Cooperative Education work experience and consent of advisor. (Hours arranged). Credit: 3-12 semester hours.
COE 491: Cooperative Education III. Work experience opportunity in a field related to student's academic interests. Graded Pass/Fail except for internship required for major. Prerequisites: Two semesters of Cooperative Education work experience and consent of advisor. (Hours arranged). Credit: 3-12 semester hours.
COMPUTER SCIENCE
COS 100: Introduction to Computers. Introductory survey of the concepts and terminology of computer hardware and software integrated with significant computer laboratory experience. Includes hardware organization, operating systems, and skill development projects in commonly used Productivity Software. Credit: 3 semester hours.
COS 101: Programming in Visual BASIC. An introduction to structured programming using Visual BASIC as a programming language. Focus on problem-solving techniques using basic file handling routines, mathematical computation, string handling, decision, and repetition structures. Credit: 3 semester hours.
COS 107: Problem Solving, Logic & Design. A language independent introduction to program development using various problem-solving techniques. Emphasis is placed on problem analysis, algorithm and pseudo code development, as well as various data and control structures. Credit: 3 semester hours.
COS 108: Principles of Computer Science I. An introduction to the foundations of Computer Science that incorporates the study of computer architecture, data representation, organization and storage, algorithm development and structured programming using C++ as a design tool. Prerequisites: COS 107, ENG 101 and MAT 111 or consent of divisional chair. Credit: 4 semester hours.
COS 109: Principles of Computer Science II. A continuation of COS 108 with an extensive study of the manipulation of arrays, strings, record structure and files. A brief introduction to Object Oriented Programming is provided. Prerequisite: COS 108. Credit: 4 semester hours.