Curriculum

To advance your career and reach the next level, you need to do more than enhance your skills; you need to maintain a path of personal growth. IWU BSJ curriculum is a cumulative program of distance learning courses that build your criminal justice, homeland security, and ethical proficiencies.

IWU BSJ program’s curriculum teaches you to practice leadership through service to others. You learn that your responsibility as a criminal justice professional is to prepare yourself to meet the unique demands of a changing society and to respond quickly and appropriately to developing and ongoing threats to the safety of your community, state and country. Through our program of distance learning courses, you will reap immediate rewards as you incorporate the practical knowledge gained from your course work and your classmates into your daily duties. To become a leader who dares to make the workplace and the world a better place to be, apply now.

The BSJ Program

You begin your studies with the first of our distance learning courses, CRJ281 Principles of Criminal Justice. This course introduces you to your online classroom and also provides you an overview of criminal justice with a focus on group interaction skills and the management of individual and professional priorities. In CRJ281, you will also be introduced to corrections, criminology, policing, criminal procedure and crisis intervention. Over the course of the criminal justice program, students will participate in various field experiences related to their course work. The final course, CRJ469 Practicum in Criminal Justice and Homeland Security, will provide students an opportunity to further reflect on those experiences, conduct research, and then integrate their research with the knowledge they have gained through both their course work and their filed experiences.

Your BSJ distance learning courses will teach you a variety of skills from addiction theory and criminal law to court procedures, terrorism and counter-terrorism, and disaster preparedness and emergency leadership, all designed to give you the knowledge needed to take your career to the next level. The result is a carefully balanced program of practical instruction in ethics, criminal justice, and homeland security.

IWU BSJ Distance Learning Courses

	CRJ 281		Principles of Criminal Justice
	CRJ 309		Youth and Crime
	ADC 210		Addiction Theory
	CRJ 320		Diversity in Criminal Justice
	CRJ 358		Criminal Law
	CRJ 472		Court Procedures
	CRJ 461		Ethics in Criminal Justice
	CRJ 463		Forensics
	CRJ 465		Constitutional Law / Civil Liberties
	CRJ 467		Research Methods and Analysis in Criminal Justice
	CRJ 322		Terrorism and Counter-Terrorism
	CRJ 324		Risk Analysis and Security
	CRJ 422		Disaster Preparedness
	CRJ 424		Command and Control / Emergency Leadership
	CRJ 486		Capstone in Criminal Justice and Homeland Security