7 courses with the subject CRJ, each shown exactly as we captured it from the college's catalog, with every element we hold. Where the wording looks broken, that is our reading of the catalog, not the college's text.
CRJ 201Introduction to Criminal Justice4
meets the Peace Core Social Sciences requirement This course surveys the American criminal justice system. Topically, by exploring both the theoretical and practical facets of criminal justice, this course focuses upon three primary institutions: police, courts, and corrections. We seek to understand the complexities involved in criminal justice (history, functions, and interrelationships), while critically exploring contemporary crime and justice issues relevant to all Americans.
This course is designed to introduce core investigative tools, demonstrate the proper use of evidence gathering techniques, and provide students with a comprehensive grounding in contemporary criminal investigative methodology. By focusing upon such investigative techniques and methods, students will learn necessary steps of crime scene investigation, including the identification, collection, and preservation of physical evidence; and subsequent investigative procedures such as report and affidavit writing and fundamental forensic science concepts.
A course whose content may vary from term to term according to the needs of the academic department, student demand or the interests of the faculty member.
This course examines the history and function of major criminal investigation agencies, advanced investigative theories and procedures, intelligence gathering, and the complex relationship between criminal investigation and the law. Furthermore, by focusing on topics such as gang investigation, homicide investigation, suicide investigation, and interrogation and confession, students will deepen their understanding of criminal investigations in the 21st century. Serving as an upper-level accompaniment to CRJ 205: Criminal Investigations I, this course is especially fundamental for students pursuing the law enforcement profession; students broadly interested in criminal investigations will also certainly find this course fascinating.
This course examines the complex issues surrounding human trafficking, which involves numerous perspectives and collaboration between various disciplines. For the purpose of Criminal Justice, we will focus on issues related to law enforcement and investigation, as we explore how to identify a victim of human trafficking, the protection of victims, federal law addressing human trafficking in the United States, operations, and the prosecution of traffickers. We will pay special attention to the forms of human trafficking, such as exploitation, labor trafficking, and sex trafficking. This course confronts a difficult topic so that we can better understand it, identify it, prosecute it, and prevent it. 81 | 2026-27 William Peace University Academic Catalog
A course of study addressing a specific topic or problem of interest to a student, designed collaboratively by the student and faculty member(s), and resulting in a paper, report, critiqued performance or production, or other assessable evidence of value added to the student’s educational experience. A contract of expectations by the student and by the supervising faculty member(s) must be approved by the advisor and the Vice President for Academic Affairs prior to registration. No more than eight (8) semester hours toward the baccalaureate degree can consist of directed study credit. 82 | 2026-27 William Peace University Academic Catalog
This course provides students with the essential building blocks to not only understand Social Science research, but to evaluate it and produce their own research proposals and projects. Throughout the semester, various paradigms of Social Science research will be explored, with particular attention being paid to the logic of the Scientific Method and its application and use within various Social Science fields. Students will learn to assess and critique existing research and will endeavor, through immersive pedagogy, to create their own research proposals and projects using a variety of research methods.
