Bachelor's Degree in Applied Criminal Justice Studies
Degree: Bachelor of Applied Arts and Sciences
Major: Applied Criminal Justice Studies
Hours: 120
Applied Criminal Justice Studies Overview
Lamar University's Bachelor of Applied Arts and Sciences in Applied Criminal Justice Studies combines skills learned in the classroom with the professional experience many pursuing a criminal justice degree already possess. This is a flexible, career-focused online program designed for students with diverse backgrounds and prior technical credits, associate degrees or military training.
This program provides skills in law enforcement, social perceptiveness, decision making and problem solving, writing and speaking. It's a practical, streamlined way for you to simultaneously advance both your education and your career, or to use your past experiences to enhance a new career field.
Applied Criminal Justice Studies Courses You May Take
Leadership/Communication Strategies: The Leadership and Communications Strategies course aims to equip students with the essential communication and leadership skills necessary for navigating the professional world. The course will focus on techniques for: conveying ideas and information effectively, becoming a credible influential leader, creating conditions in which individuals and teams thrive, developing measurable goals, and achieving actionable outcomes.
Personal Productivity: Personal productivity is a course based on the FranklinCovey framework, designed to empower individuals to significantly enhance their personal and professional effectiveness by focusing on five key decision-making principles that optimize their time, attention, and energy. This course integrates theoretical foundations with practical applications to develop students' abilities to make effective decisions, manage time efficiently, and achieve sustainable productivity in both personal and professional contexts.
Crime and Criminals: American crime problems in historical perspective; social and public policy factors affecting crime, impact and crime trends; liberal and conservative views of the crime problem and policy implications; crime prevention.
Responses to Crime: A study of contemporary thought on crime, criminals, and the criminal justice system using critical analysis of recently written materials as a source for research, discussion, and student seminar.
Criminal Justice Research Methods: An examination of the research methodologies used in the evaluation of crime and criminal justice systems. The course will provide students with a foundation in research design, analysis, interpretation, and communication of results.
Career Paths for Applied Criminal Justice Studies
Graduates of this online program will be prepared for leadership, administration and specialized roles in law enforcement, correctional facilities and court systems.
Primary Careers
Police officer, prison guard, court officer, probation officer
- Policing
- Forensics
- Emergency and social services
- Homeland security
- Border security
- Child/adult abuse protection
- Private security
- Government agencies
- Non-profit organizations
- Prisons and detention centers
- Law enforcement bureaus
- Courts of law
- Sheriff's departments