Program Overview
Apply your critical reasoning skills. Understanding the choices or motivations that lead people to engage in criminal behavior is important for society. The Criminal Justice program combines theoretical knowledge and practical skills in crime scene investigation and documentation, forensic photography, blood pattern analysis, fingerprinting, and latent fingerprinting from law enforcement, criminology, social justice, public administration, law, and corrections to provide a thorough understanding of the United States criminal justice system.
The Criminal Justice program offers certificates and degrees which prepare you for entry-level careers in federal law enforcement, state and local police work, probational parole, and /or corrections. The program also prepares you to continue your criminal justice studies through a transfer opportunity at the University of Arkansas Fort Smith (UAFS).