• CRJU 350: Special Topics in Crim Justice

  3.00 Credits

  Tusculum University

  
  This course provides students with an opportunity to complete a class that is designed to address topics identified as current events, knowledge awareness, or behaviors that are applicable and pertinent to the professional development of criminal justice students. The topics associated to course concentration will vary, depending upon the professor interest but may include: serial killers, mass murderers, cult crime investigations, missing person investigations, fire science, emergency management, use of force, white collar crime, emerging patterns of violence, media and crime, organized crime, human trafficking, prison overcrowding and community corrections, hostage negotiations, euthanasia and mercy killings, insanity pleas, death penalty, and women in the justice system. This course may be repeated once with a different topic for a maximum of 6 semester hours. Prerequisite: CRJU 105
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• CRJU 400: Theoretical Criminology

  3.00 Credits

  Tusculum University

  
  This course introduces students to criminal behavior and to the major paradigms of criminological theory, including classical and neo-classical theories, trait theories, social ecology theories, social structure theories, social learning theories, social process theories and critical theories. Students will learn about research and support for each paradigm and will critically evaluate the implications of each paradigm on justice structures and processes. Capstone Experience. Prerequisites: CRJU 105 and senior standing.
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• CRJU 403: Forensic Psychology

  3.00 Credits

  Tusculum University

  
  A broad overview of the field of forensic psychology and the numerous ways that psychology interacts with the law with special emphasis on issues of current practice and ethical issues in forensic psychology. Prerequisite: Junior standing.
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• CRJU 420: Death Investigations

  3.00 Credits

  Tusculum University

  
  The purpose of this course is to provide students with a broad overview of death investigations. The measures that are concentrated upon include the process associated to investigating homicides, suicides, accidental, natural, and the unknown causes of death. Elements associated to the analysis of the death scene will be explored to include physical and psychological evidence and autopsy-related methods that are employed in the investigative process. Concepts associated to jurisdiction scene management, and discrepancies that are associated to death-related evidence will be addressed and critically evaluated. Students will be able to develop and understand factors that are directly involved in arriving at an estimation of time of death, wounds inflicted by sharp force injury, gunshot wounds, internal and external, powder residue, size, shape, entry/exit and the deceptive nature of these wounds. Students will also have the opportunity to explore the process of decomposition and the anthropological associations to human identification. Prerequisite: Junior Standing
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• CRJU 440: Criminal Justice Internship

  3.00 Credits

  Tusculum University

  
  This course allows students to gain field experience by serving within governmental or nongovernmental agencies within the criminal justice discipline. This experience will be supervised by qualified agency personnel and a criminal justice faculty member. Attempts will be made to place students within the branch of criminal justice that they are interested in and will emphasize service and individual learning. This course can be repeated for up to eight credit hours. Prerequisites: CRJU 105, CRJU 302 and junior standing.
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• CRJU 449: Research Mthds for Criminology and Js

  3.00 Credits

  Tusculum University

  
  This course introduces students to the research process in criminal justice and criminology and how research is applied to solve problems in various areas of criminal justice and criminology. Students will develop an ethically sound, theoretically based research proposal designed to address a specific research question relevant to a problem in criminal justice and criminology. Students also will learn to read and interpret research articles and will complete short projects using various research methods. Both qualitative and quantitative methods will be examined. This course is the capstone experience for the major. Students will prepare a cover letter and a résumé or curriculum vitae for review by the instructor.CRJU 302, CRJU 400 and MATH 122 or MATH 140
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• CRJU 450: Independent Study

  1.00 - 4.00 Credits

  Tusculum University

  
  Independent Study
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• CRJU 480: Criminal Justice in the Age of Terrorism

  3.00 Credits

  Tusculum University

  
  Students will examine the complex issues surrounding criminal justice in an age of conflict from a global perspective. Specifically, students will study the origins, methods and types of terrorism as well as prosecution of historical crimes committed during conflict. Students will use primary and secondary sources coupled with Problem Solving techniques to determine best practices to deal with contemporary issues. CRJU 105, CRJU 200 or CRJU 201, and senior standing.
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• CRJU ELE: Criminal Justice Elective

  0.00 - 4.00 Credits

  Tusculum University

  
  Transfer Elective
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• ECON ELE: Economics Elective

  0.00 Credits

  Tusculum University

  
  Transfer Elective
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