The criminal justice department recognizes that earning your education is one of the most important investments in your life, especially in a competitive job market. We also recognize that due to busy life styles that the traditional trips to campus several times a week for a rigid three hour lecture creates a serious problem, thus minimizing your opportunity to earn a degree. Because of the demands for more flexible education delivery, the criminal justice department is now offering complete online (web-based) courses and hybrid online courses.

A complete online course is a course that is delivered entirely via the World Wide Web. Students never have to come to campus for classes. The class is facilitated entirely online. The only thing that the student needs is a computer that has high-speed access to the internet. A major benefit to online courses is that course material is accessible twenty-four hours a day seven days a week. Students have the ability to read lectures and discussions when it is convenient for them to do so.

For students who travel as part of their job requirement, online education is ideal. No matter what your work or travel schedule might be, you can attend class from anywhere in the world that has high-speed internet access.

A hybrid course is one that is delivered utilizing both the traditional classroom meetings and use of the World Wide Web. For example, the course may be designed to where the student is required to meet physically on campus for fifty-percent of the sixteen week semester course (eight meetings), and the other eight class meetings are facilitated online.

The Master of Criminal Justice program currently offers several courses either as online or hybrid courses and it is our goal to have the majority of our graduate courses online in the very near future for students who desire the online learning environment. Likewise, we will begin to offer more online options for undergraduate students too. A list of online or hybrid online courses that are currently offered in the criminal justice department are as follows:

Exclusively On-Line Courses for Fall 2008:

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CJ 191

 Introduction to CJ (CRN 14653) First 8 Week Session (Cromwell)
ball CJ 191 Introduction to CJ (CRN 14652) First 8 Week Session (Palmiotto)
ball CJ 392 Law Enforcement (CRN 16225) (Birzer)
ball CJ 893 Sem. in Applied Crim. Theory (CRN 14763) Second 8 Week Session (Cromwell)
ball CJ 894 Proseminar in CJ (CRN 14765) First 8 Week Session (Craig)

Hybrid Courses for Fall 2008:

ball CJ 515 Sex Crimes (CRN 14752) First 8 Week Session
9:30 a.m. - 10:45 a.m. TTH (218 HH) (Craig)
ball CJ 874 Qualitative Methods (CRN 14769)
4:30 p.m. - 6:50 p.m. T (329 LH) (Birzer)

The majority of classes in the Criminal Justice program are now hybrid courses. All classes take advantage of Blackboard. For additional information, make sure to contact the instructor of a particular course.