CJ - Criminal Justice   

CJ 150 - Introduction to Criminal Justice   (3 Credits)
   The course is designed to provide an overview of the criminal justice system, including coverage of American judicial system, law enforcement, crime problem, and other components. The objective of this course is to provide students with a procedural framework of the criminal justice process. After completion of the course students will have an understanding of the history of criminal justice in the Unites States, various components of the system and their relations, challenges of administering criminal justice and more.

CJ 250 - Criminology   (3 Credits)
   The objective of this course is to introduce students to the subject of criminology so that they may be better informed citizens, able to exercise independent, critical judgment of
public policies for dealing with crime, and prepared for more detailed study of criminal justice. The course covers a wide range of criminological topics, including descriptions of crimes and criminals, stressing explanations of criminal behavior and ways of reducing crime.
   Prerequisites: CJ 150, SOC 161

CJ 260 - Criminal Law   (3 Credits)
   This course provides students with comprehensive coverage of the principles of criminal law, including principles of criminal responsibility, and the purposes, requirements, and limitations of criminal law. The course also addresses the mental and physical elements of crimes, crimes against persons, against property, against public orders, as well as the variety of criminal defenses.
   Prerequisite: CJ 250, PSY 160

CJ 310 - Criminal Investigation and Forensics    (3 Credits)
   This course focuses on forensic science as an application of science to the law. While forensic science is used in civil and criminal cases, this course focuses on criminal investigation. Forensic science comprises several disparate fields of study. This course will cover a wide range of topics including jurisprudence, medicine, taphonomy, criminalistics, engineering, digital forensics and behavioral science. This course aims to provide students with an understanding of the fundamentals of forensic science including the history and definition of forensic science, legal framework in which forensic science in the USA is conducted, commonly applied and recently developed applications, potential forms of evidence and their analysis, presentation of facts and opinion in a court of law, and more.
   Prerequisites:  CJ 260 or LAW 302

CJ 320 - Computer Crime and Cyber-Terrorism    (3 Credits)
   This course introduces students to computer forensics, the art and science of using technology to obtain evidence for use in criminal and civil court. The course also focuses on computer crime statutes, management of evidence and industry best-practices for examining computers that might contain crime-related information. After completion of the course students will have an understanding of different aspects of digital crime and terrorism.
   Prerequisites: CJ 260 or LAW 302

CJ 330 - Business Crime     (3 Credits)
   This course focuses on the general provisions of the criminal law that apply to business conduct. Some of the provisions that will be covered include the standard for corporate criminal liability, the federal fraud offenses, conspiracy, money laundering, RICO, obstruction of justice, perjury, false statements, and the United States Sentencing Commission's Organizational Sentencing Guidelines. The course will also explore the impact of Federal Department of Justice policy on managerial decision-making, as well as those aspects of criminal procedure especially relevant to business such as the corporate attorney-client privilege. The objective of this course is to develop the student's ability to recognize and analyze the legal issues that confront the contemporary business person.
   Prerequisites: CJ 260 or LAW 302, CJ 310

CJ 410 - Criminal Justice Ethics    (3 Credits)
   The course examines the criminal justice system through an ethical lens, identifying ethical issues in practice and in theory, exploring ethical dilemmas, and suggesting how ethical issues might be resolved by criminal justice specialists. The objective of this course is to provide students with an understanding of the ethical issues in criminal justice system.
   Prerequisites: CJ 320, CJ 330

CJ 450 - Seminar in Criminal Justice    (3 Credits)
   This seminar is a capstone course for criminal justice majors. The course focuses on different contemporary aspects of criminal justice, including issues and debates on some specific topics, such as legal, social, and ethical issues surrounding the death penalty and prisoners' rights in the United States.
   Prerequisites: CJ 410