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The Future, Your Future and the
Department of Criminal Justice & Police Studies

The world of tomorrow will not be anything like the world of today.

New slogans and labels like new technology, occupational fields, societal demands and global conditions are changing and are changing not in decades but in months!

Get a degree that will prepare you for that fast paced-ever changing future!

Don’t tie yourself down to what is new today, but for what is possible tomorrow.
Get a degree from the department of Criminal Justice & Police Studies and be ready for the challenges of the future!

You will graduate ready to move in a thousand different directions.
Here are but a few of the jobs for the CRJ professional

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Recent News Articles about CJPS Job Opportunities

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The purpose of undergraduate programs in criminal justice and police studies is to educate students to be critical thinkers who can communicate their thoughts effectively in oral and written form. Our programs will familiarize students with facts and concepts and teach students to apply this knowledge to related problems and changing situations. Primary objectives of our criminal justice and police studies programs include the development of critical thinking; communication, technology, and computing skills; quantitative reasoning; ethical decision-making; and an understanding of diversity.

The undergraduate criminal justice program affords students the opportunity to develop knowledge and skills above the introductory level through a logically sequenced, coherent, and rigorous body of coursework.

Both our programs in criminal justice and police studies are part of a broadly based degree program with a balance of general education, required and elective courses in criminal justice and in related fields, and unrestricted electives wherever possible.

Watch these videos to see Criminal Justice & Police Studies department chair Dr. Carole Garrison give an introduction to the Criminal Justice & Police Studies Program. You'll also hear from students, alumni, and a faculty member.