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Criminal Justice, BA 

Criminal Justice, BA
 at 
University of Colorado Boulder 
Overview

Get a comprehensive understanding of today?s criminal justice system

Duration

120 hours

Total fee

25,773

Mode of learning

Online

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Criminal Justice, BA
 at 
University of Colorado Boulder 
Highlights

  • Earn a Bachelor of Arts in Criminal Justice from the University of Colorado Denver
  • Get an on-site internship work experience
  • Financial aid and scholarships are available for those who qualify
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Criminal Justice, BA
 at 
University of Colorado Boulder 
Course details

What are the course deliverables?
  • Be able to draw on multiple disciplines and research traditions to identify and understand the social and behavioral contributors to crime and delinquency
  • Have a comprehensive understanding of the institutions in the criminal justice system and how politics and policy making affect these institutions
  • Have effective critical thinking, oral and written communication skills
  • Have a comprehensive knowledge of the ethical concerns of the criminal justice field
  • Understand how perceptions of the criminal justice system vary cross-culturally, and how such differences influence policy and public perception
  • Understand the impact and interplay of public policy on the trends, solutions, and research in the field
  • Have demonstrated honed interpersonal and leadership skills; and
  • Have developed a basis for the skills necessary to perform information analysis; engage in critical thinking, problem-solving, and evaluation
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More about this course
  • The online Bachelor of Arts in Criminal Justice program is a liberal arts undergraduate degree that acts like a professional degree
  • Unlike other liberal arts degrees, the BACJ program focuses on developing critical thinking and analytic skills in combination with the core competencies of a standard undergraduate degree to provide students with skills and expertise that they can use every day in their criminal justice career
  • The BACJ program will provide students with a broad knowledge of the criminal justice system, including such topics as the role of technology in criminal justice, how the corrections system works, how courts and law enforcement work together, and criminal justice theory

Criminal Justice, BA
 at 
University of Colorado Boulder 
Curriculum

CRJU 1000 ? Justice: An Overview

This course is designed to provide an overview of the criminal justice process and the criminal justice system in general

CRJU 2041 ? Crime Theory and Causes

This course provides a general survey of the nature and causes of crime and efforts of the criminal justice system to predict, prevent, modify, and correct this behavior

CRJU 3150 ? Statistics for Criminal Justice

This course serves as an introduction to descriptive and inferential statistics and the computer analysis of criminology and criminal justice data

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Criminal Justice, BA
 at 
University of Colorado Boulder 
Contact Information

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Regent Administrative Center 125,552 UCB
Boulder, Colorado 80309-0552

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