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  • 3.00 Credits

    Project management is the application of knowledge, skills and techniques required to execute projects effectively and efficiently. It's a strategic competency for IT professionals in business organizations. The course is organized around the project management processes defined by the Project Management Institute in PMBOK. The course reinforces the many skills learned previously in the curriculum. Data organization, file processing, database design and implementation, systems analysis techniques, networking and web are all strengthened through application of project management as applied to case studies. Open to senior CIS, CS, and business majors only or permission of Department Chair.
  • 3.00 Credits

    This course covers theory and practice of computer security, focusing in particular on the security aspects of the LAN and Internet. It surveys tools used to provide security, such as security software, intrusion detection and prevention, public key encryption, and disaster recovery. System security issues, such as viruses, intrusion, firewalls, and others will also be covered. Prerequisite: CIS 385 or permission of Department Chairperson.rperson.
  • 3.00 Credits

    This course is a forum for a variety of current topics within the information systems discipline. Students will be expected to supplement the traditional classroom work with additional research material in order to become familiar with the selected topic. Topics, selected by the CIS department, refl ect changing contemporary methodologies, technologies, and research techniques that are not currently covered in other courses. Permission of the Department Chairperson is required.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Survey of the formal institutions of social control: the body of the criminal law, the police, the courts, and various forms of corrections. The course perspective may be alternately historical, organizational (sociological), or social-psychological. May include off-campus site visits and field trips.
  • 3.00 Credits

    The elements of major criminal offenses such as: murder, robbery, man-slaughter, rape, and other substantive offenses. The commonly accepted defenses to these crimes (insanity, consent, entrapment, and self-defense) are studied. The student is expected to apply criminal law defini-tions and defenses to real life factual situations in order to determine the likelihood of successful prosecution or acquittal. 3 hours.
  • 3.00 Credits

    The elements of major criminal offenses such as murder, robbery, manslaughter, rape, and other substantive offenses. The commonly accepted defenses to these crimes (insanity, consent, entrapment, and self-defense) are studied. The student is expected to apply criminal law defi nitions and defenses to real life factual situations in order to determine the likelihood of successful prosecution or acquittal. 3 hours.
  • 3.00 Credits

    This course covers the history of child abuse. Emphasis is placed on the current problem, nature and effects of abuse, how child molesters operate, and legal and social responses to the problem.
  • 3.00 Credits

    This curriculum will identify and explore primary and secondary trauma in the helping professions. Students who take this course will be able to identify common terms associated with workplace burnout and traumatic stress and to recognize this stress as an occupational hazard. Through the exploration of personal strengths, healthy cognitive thinking styles, support systems, and mindfulness techniques, strategies to enhance resilience will be explored. This course will also explore how organizations can build a trauma informed culture to minimize the effects of professional trauma and the re-traumatization of employees. Trauma informed coaching principles will be reviewed, as will the role of organizational culture in mitigating or enhancing traumatic stress; staff, supervisor, and administrator responsibilities in managing traumatic stress will be identified and explored.
  • 3.00 Credits

    The origin, causes, and history of crime; sociological and social psychological theories dealing with crime prevention; programs for special treatment of crime; study of institutions and rehabilitation. Cross-listed as SOC 333. Prerequisites: SOC 101 and CJ 110, or consent of the instructor.
  • 3.00 Credits

    This course focuses on the increased involvement of women in the criminal justice system as victim, offender, and professional. It provides an in-depth presentation of the various types of crimes in which women engage and the theories behind that involvement, as well as the methods employed by the criminal justice system when dealing with both the female offender and victim. An analysis of the different types of professional positions women hold within the criminal justice system is presented utilizing film presentations, current event articles, and guest speakers. The student completes the course with an understanding of past, present, and future trends for women and their contact with the criminal justice system. Cross-listed as SOC 342.
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