Law Enforcement Option
Criminal Justice
A.A.S. Degree (D,G,S)
The Law Enforcement Option is an associate degree program designed and offered in collaboration with the Delaware State Police Training Academy. Students who elect this option are required to pass a background check preliminarily qualifying them as potential police recruit. The student will then take a curriculum of courses based on the criminal justice associate degree appropriate to the law enforcement career path culminating in a 13-credit lecture and lab course taught by certified police instructors.
Program Graduate Competencies
The Program Graduate Competencies listed below identify the major learning goals related to your specific program of study and identify the knowledge and skills you will have when you graduate to be successful in your chosen field.
- Employ criminal justice ethics in the performance of duties.
- Employ the legal principles and practices of criminal and constitutional law.
- Utilize interviewing, counseling, and crisis intervention techniques with diverse criminal justice populations.
- Apply the knowledge and skills of a law enforcement professional.
- Meet the academic training eligibility requirements for advanced standing status at the Delaware State Police Academy.
Core Curriculum Competencies
The Core Curriculum Competencies listed below identify what you will be able to do as a graduate, regardless of your program of study. You will acquire these core competencies through general education courses and program-specific coursework. You will be expected to use relevant technology to achieve these outcomes:
- Apply clear and effective communication skills.
- Use critical thinking to solve problems.
- Collaborate to achieve a common goal.
- Demonstrate professional and ethical conduct.
- Use information literacy for effective vocational and/or academic research.
- Apply quantitative reasoning and/or scientific inquiry to solve practical problems.
Graduation Requirements
Core Courses
Program/Major Courses
| CRJ 101 | Introduction to Criminal Justice | 3 |
| CRJ 102 | Criminal Law | 3 |
| CRJ 104 | Drugs, Society, and Human Behavior | 3 |
| CRJ 105 | Computer Applications in Criminal Justice | 3 |
| CRJ 115 | Essentials of Interviewing and Counseling | 3 |
| CRJ 217 | Ethics, Professionalism, and Communication in Public Safety | 3 |
| CRJ 220 | Criminal Judiciary | 3 |
| CRJ 222 | Constitutional Law | 3 |
| CRJ 226 | Crisis Intervention | 3 |
| CRJ 237 | Law Enforcement Practicum | 13 |
Program/Major Support Courses
Suggested Pathway to Graduation (Course Sequence Sheet)
Semester 1
| SSC 100 | First Year Seminar | 1 |
| CRJ 101 | Introduction to Criminal Justice | 3 |
| CRJ 115 | Essentials of Interviewing and Counseling | 3 |
| MAT 152 | Quantitative Reasoning | 3 |
| ENG 101 | Composition I | 3 |
| CRJ 104 | Drugs, Society, and Human Behavior | 3 |
Semester 2
Semester 3
Semester 4
| CRJ 222 | Constitutional Law | 3 |
| CRJ 237 | Law Enforcement Practicum | 13 |
| CRJ 217 | Ethics, Professionalism, and Communication in Public Safety | 3 |
To complete program requirements, you must pass the above courses and earn at least 71 credits. The number of courses and credits required for graduation may be more depending on your need for developmental education courses and the elective choices you make (if electives are a part of the program). Some programs also have college-level courses that you must take if you do not score at a certain level on the College Placement Test. If this applies to your program, the courses are listed at the top of the sequence sheet before the first semester of the course list.
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