School Mission:
To educate our students to be ethical leaders in practice, policy, and scholarship; to produce informative and influential research; and to promote justice, equity, and safety through service to our communities.
School Goals:
The School of CCJEM will produce graduates who are able to:
- Critical Thinking & Problem Solving: Use creativity and analytics to evaluate facts, recognize logical flaws and conflicting viewpoints, and pose critical questions to devise solutions for complex problems.
- Subject Mastery: Demonstrate a functional knowledge of subject matter terms, concepts, issues, components, and processes, with the ability to synthesize key ideas and engage in intelligent discourse.
- Cogent & Effective Communication: Speak and write with a clear purpose, using relevant and supporting sources in an organized structure.
- Professional and Ethical Leadership: Serve the community as agents of positive change by exceeding expectations of the profession, treating all with dignity and respect, and making choices based on honesty, integrity, and principle.
- Sociocultural Competency & Global Awareness: Advocate for the importance of diversity, appreciate the different ways people experience the world, and identify how individual and collective behavior affects others.
Undergraduate CCJ Program Learning Outcomes
- Explain the underlying philosophies, history, processes, components, and best practices of the CJ system (i.e., police, courts, correctional agencies).
- Demonstrate effective written and oral communication and the appropriate use and synthesis of reliable information sources with proper attribution.
- Analyze the role of ethics, diversity, culture, political power, and corporate power on the components of the CJ system.
- Evaluate the nature, extent, causation, and prevention of crime and critique the major criminological theories.
- Demonstrate social scientific research methodologies and analyze data to formulate defensible conclusions.
- Apply the principles of substantive, procedural, and evidentiary criminal laws that regulate and guide the CJ system and its actors.
- Apply classroom-based information to a real-world setting (e.g., social support agency, police department, courtroom, correctional facility) and critically examine the practices, policies, or processes of that setting.
Graduate CCJ Program Learning Outcomes
- Explain, connect, differentiate, apply, and critique theories of crime, criminal behavior, law, justice, and social control within a social-cultural-political context
- Critically analyze and critique criminal justice policy, the operation of the criminal justice system, and their effects on individuals, communities, and society
- Apply the scientific method and analytic tools to interpret research and data related to crime and the criminal justice system to assess effectiveness of theories and policies
- Use jurisprudential and ethical theories to analyze the role of diversity, culture, and power on national and global criminological and criminal justice issues
- Integrate theories, methods, and statistics to construct research questions, examine literature and data, and deduce/extrapolate implications for theory, policy, and research
- Demonstrate the ability to effectively develop and communicate ideas and arguments through written work and oral presentations
Graduate EMER Program Learning Outcomes
- Act consistently to expand personal knowledge, gather information from reliable sources, write with a clear purpose, and allow ideas to be challenged and modified.
- Synthesize the emergency management principles in addressing the present hazard, risk, and vulnerability conditions, anticipating how their interactions may evolve.
- Summarize information flows within and between organizations to create strategies for involving diverse stakeholders on the disaster risk issue.
- Promote the value of including diverse community voices in pre-disaster capability building and effectively communicate multifaceted disaster risk problems.
- Participate in team building and mutual learning processes, incorporating ethical principles and public value into the discourse.
- Form arguments from evidence, identify an appropriate research design, and use analytics to evaluate a disaster risk emerging from the interactions between the social, built, and physical environments.
- Apply ethical scientific concepts and processes to problem-solving, decision-making, assessing appropriate technology application, and policy development.
- Independently research an issue thoroughly: ethically gathers information from a wide range of sources, and reliably identifies critical patterns, trends, and relationships in the data.