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Police Studies Certificate Program

School of Criminology | Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
¶¡ÏãÔ°AV Calendar 2012 Fall

This certificate is primarily directed toward undergraduates and sworn police officers who wish to focus their criminology undergraduate studies on courses that relate to policing.

Units applied toward a certificate may not be applied toward any other ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV certificate or diploma, but may be applied toward major program or minor program requirements, or toward a bachelor’s degree under the normal regulations governing those programs.

¶¡ÏãÔ°AV Requirements

Applicants must meet undergraduate admission deadlines as shown in this Calendar. Application forms and official documents must be submitted to Student Services. In addition to applying for University admission, students apply in writing to the school’s advisor for certificate program admission.

Applicants will have completed the following two introductory courses prior to applying for admission to this program. Serving police officers may apply to have completion of these courses waived.

  • CRIM 101-3 Introduction to Criminology
  • CRIM 251-3 Introduction to Policing

Grade Requirements

An overall 2.25 cumulative grade point average (CGPA) is required. A minimum of
C- is required in all courses.

Program Requirements

This program consists of six courses (18 units) chosen from the following list. Students may choose to focus their studies by completing courses in several of the following clusters, or they may choose their six from any courses in the list, regardless of the clusters.

Students may also choose any other 300 or 400 division course that is designated as a police studies course. Such courses may be offered by the School of Criminology (e.g. special topics courses), or other departments and faculties such as First Nations Studies Program, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Department of Archaeology, School of Computing Science, Department of Psychology. See the school's advisor for further information.

Note that some of the following courses may have prerequisites.

All courses must be completed at ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV.

Minorities and the Criminal Justice System

  • CRIM 311-3 Minorities and the Criminal Justice System
  • CRIM 419-3 Aboriginalllndigenous Justice
  • CRIM 429-3 Indigenous Peoples and International Law

Forensic Studies

  • CRIM 355-3 The Forensic Sciences
  • CRIM 356-3 The Forensic Sciences II
  • CRIM 357-3 Forensic Anatomy
  • CRIM 451-3 Advanced Techniques in Forensic Science
  • CRIM 452-3 Skeletal Pathology and Criminalistics

Restorative Justice

  • CRIM 315-4 Restorative Justice
  • CRIM 442-3 Restorative Justice Practice: Advanced Topics

Cybercrime

  • CRIM 380-3 Introduction to Cybercrime
  • CRIM 480-3 Computer Forensics and Cybercrime
  • CRIM 481-3 Advanced Issues in Cybercrime

Crime Analysis and Crime Prevention

  • CRIM 350-3 Techniques of Crime Prevention I
  • CRIM 352-3 Environmental Criminology: Theory and Practice
  • CRIM 433-3 Communities and Crime
  • CRIM 450-5 Techniques of Crime Prevention II
  • CRIM 457-4 Crime and Criminal Intelligence Analysis

Special Types of Offenders or Crimes

  • CRIM 310-3 Young Offenders and Criminal Justice: Advanced Topics
  • CRIM 316-3 Sexual Offenders and Sexual Offences
  • CRlM 317-3 Prostitution in Canada
  • CRlM 413-3 Terrorism
  • CRlM 454-3 Criminal Profiling
  • CRIM 459-3 Organized Crime

Key Issues in Policing

  • CRlM 314-3 Mental Disorder, Criminality and the Law
  • CRlM 351-3 Police Accountability and Ethics
  • CRlM 410-3 Decision-Making in Criminal Justice
  • CRlM 453-3 Policing Illegal Drug Markets
  • CRlM 455-3 Advanced Issues in Policing
  • CRIM 456-3 Investigative Psychology in Policing
  • CRIM 458-3 Community Policing
  • CRlM 465-3 Crime, Economics, and the Economy

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