Gannon University
Bachelor of Arts in Criminal Justice
Erie, USA
DURATION
4 Years
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Full time
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STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
Key Summary
About: The Bachelor of Arts in Criminal Justice offers a comprehensive study of the criminal justice system, focusing on law enforcement, courts, and corrections. The program emphasizes critical thinking and analytical skills, preparing students for various roles in the field.
Career Outcomes: Graduates can pursue careers as police officers, probation officers, criminal investigators, or positions in law enforcement agencies, courts, and correctional facilities.
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Introduction
Lead, Protect, and Serve Communities with a Criminal Justice Degree from Gannon University
Gannon University’s criminal justice program prepares 21st-century students to become lead investigators and vital agents of social change. Through individualized faculty mentoring and a skill-based curriculum, you can discover your own career in law enforcement, public service, or criminal investigation as you work toward a safer world.
- Learn from retired Florida State Crime Lab forensic scientists and FBI and ATF special agents.
- Increase your professional marketability through service-learning projects, internships, and hands-on coursework.
- Pursue a double major or minor through convenient curriculum flexibility.
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Curriculum
Inspire Your Academic Success
Gain real-world knowledge through key criminal justice courses including:
- Criminalistics: Learn from a nationally recognized forensic expert about collecting, processing, and analyzing evidence and understanding its relevance in a criminal case.
- Careers in Criminal Justice: Tailor your professional goals as weekly guest speakers discuss careers in law enforcement, corrections, and forensics, among others.
- Investigative Concepts: Explore principles of criminal and civil investigation including investigative techniques and obtaining information to identify and locate suspects. The course integrates lessons from Erie’s “Pizza Bomber” case and is taught by a former FBI lead investigator on the case.
Program Outcome
Learn to Lead the Way in Criminal Justice
- Master theoretical concepts and practical applications of the investigative process.
- Learn principles of forensic investigation including evidence documentation, crime analysis, reporting and testimony, fingerprint techniques, and bloodstain pattern analysis.
- Analyze issues of global diversity in relation to criminal behavior and crime control.
Student Learning Outcomes
- Students will demonstrate the research, investigative and forensic skills important for working in justice or a related field.
- Students will integrate explanations of crime and deviance and how to apply them to various types of crime.
- Students will demonstrate a critical understanding of the systems, processes, and innovations in criminal justice.
- Students will be able to analyze moral and ethical complexities and find suitable resolutions.
- Students will apply research, knowledge, data analysis, and computer skills to examine problems associated with crime, deviance, and justice.
- Students will critically analyze issues of global diversity in terms of race, ethnicity, gender, and class in relation to crime and crime control.
- Students will utilize professional skills necessary for career exploration and preparedness.
Career Opportunities
Achieve Your Possibilities
Our criminal justice program is designed in favor of your success. Through curriculum flexibility and high-quality educational opportunities, you can:
- Earn competitive internship placements with the Drug Enforcement Agency, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, local police departments, and the Erie Court of Common Pleas, among others
- Accelerate your education and earn a B.A. in criminal justice and M.S. in criminalistics in just five years.
- Secure your career as a federal special agent, criminal investigator, crime analyst, police officer, secret service, homeland security, border patrol office, intelligence analyst, lawyer, victim advocate, and more. Annual median salaries can range up to $112,960, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics