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Nov 24, 2024
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2023-2024 Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
Criminal Justice, AA with Designation
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Additional information available on the Criminal Justice Department website.
Recommended basic skills courses are
- College Readiness in English
- College Readiness for Quantitative Literacy for MAT 1240 or MAT 1260
- College Readiness for Algebra for MAT 1340
The Associate of Arts in Criminal Justice is designed for students intending to transfer to a four-year school and pursue a bachelor’s degree in Criminal Justice. The Statewide Transfer Agreement will allow students to transfer to a Colorado public four-year school and complete their degree with an additional 60 credit hours.
Courses marked with an asterisk [*] are not currently offered at PPSC.
Program Learning Outcomes
Upon completion of the Criminal Justice degree program, students should be able to:
- Explain the origins of criminal behavior, society’s response to crime, and the consequences of crime to our society, utilizing multiple perspectives
- Explain social injustices and social harms within criminal justice systems
- Compare theoretical frameworks to the causes and prevention of crime, the processes of criminalization, and the impact that crime has on society
- Discuss the relationships between the courtroom and its procedures, the criminal law, and issues of criminal procedure (due process vs. crime control)
- Document police-related activities through effective report writing
- Differentiate and explain the key roles in the core criminal justice areas (law enforcement, law and corrections)
Full list of requirements can be found at Associate of Arts Degrees, AA .
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Written Communication
Six (6) credit hours
Mathematics
Three-four (3-4) credit hours
; prefer MAT 1260 , except:
- University of Colorado, Colorado Springs prefers MAT 1240
- Colorado Mesa University requires either MAT 1240 or MAT 1340
- University of Northern Colorado requires MAT 1260
Arts and Humanities
Six (6) credit hours
History
Three (3) credit hours
Social and Behavioral Sciences
Six (6) credit hours
Natural and Physical Sciences
Seven-eight (7-8) credit hours
. One of these courses must have the required Laboratory (GT-SC1).
Additional Required Courses
Twenty-seven (27) credit hours
Please note: if these credits are not required for the major at a receiving four-year institution, they will be applied to the bachelor’s degree as elective credit towards graduation. Please check with the receiving institution to determine in which way these courses will be applied.
Choose Two (2) Courses from the Following
Choose Three (3) Courses from the Following
If these courses are applied to this second section of the Prescribed Curriculum (Additional Required Courses) for credit, they may not be applied to the first section of the Prescribed Curriculum (General Education Requirements) for credit.
Electives
Zero-two (0-2) credit hours selected from the .
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