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CAA120 Culinary Fundamentals

College of Culinary Arts Culinary Arts Department

Course Description: This course introduces students to dry heat cooking and combination cooking methods. Students will learn how to braise, stew, pan fry, and deep fry. Food coatings for various frying techniques will be discussed and practiced. In addition students will practice, learn and demonstrate potato, rice and vegetable cookery.

Credit Hours: 2.00

Prerequisites: CAA110

Corequisites: None

CAA299 Culinary Externship III

College of Culinary Arts Culinary Arts Department

Course Description: This course provides students with the opportunity to apply their educational experiences in a real-world work environment. Through this externship the student will expand their understanding of the inner workings of a food service establishment under direct report to an employer. This supervised experience will provide the student an opportunity to improve upon learned skills such as professionalism and organization as well as further develop the speed, accuracy and timing that is of importance to success in the field.

Credit Hours: 2.00

Prerequisites: None

Corequisites: None

HUM250 Critical Thinking and Leadership Skills

Arts and Sciences Department

Course Description: 

Credit Hours: 4.00

Prerequisites: None

Corequisites: None

CJ430 Critical Incident Management

College of Business and Criminal Justice Criminal Justice Department

Course Description: This course will examine the role of crisis response from the perspective of both the private sector and that of public safety. Students will learn about the phenomenon of crisis, various intervention methodologies, as well as differing legal and ethical issues relating to the varying stages of crisis. Additionally, using artificial Intelligence, students will work their way through the phases of a critical incident from the perspective of public safety.

Credit Hours: 3.00

Prerequisites: CJ110

Corequisites: None

CJ235 Criminology

College of Business and Criminal Justice Criminal Justice Department

Course Description: This course examples the nature, extent and causes of crime. Students will learn basic assumptions of current criminological theories, patterns of criminal behavior and typologies of criminal activity.

Credit Hours: 3.00

Prerequisites: CJ100

Corequisites: None

CJ125 Criminal Procedure

College of Business and Criminal Justice Criminal Justice Department

Course Description: The course will address the procedural rules and laws governing police interaction with a suspect or a citizen. Students will learn the rights and limitations on government action contained in the 4th, 5th, 6th, 8th, and 14th Amendments.

Credit Hours: 3.00

Prerequisites: CJ106

Corequisites: None

CJ106 Criminal Law

College of Business and Criminal Justice Criminal Justice Department

Course Description: This course provides a foundation for understanding substantive criminal law. Topics explored include the general elements of criminal offenses, the parties to crimes, affirmative defenses, and the legal elements of inchoate offenses. Students will learn the legal elements of the following offenses: homicide; crimes against persons; crimes against property and habitation; crimes against public order, safety, and morality; and finally, crimes against the administration of justice.

Credit Hours: 3.00

Prerequisites: None

Corequisites: None

CJ350 Criminal Justice Documentation

College of Business and Criminal Justice Criminal Justice Department

Course Description: This course provides an overview of criminal justice documentation for various professions within the field. Students will learn field oriented methods of drafting written correspondence and required industry reports.

Credit Hours: 3.00

Prerequisites: None

Corequisites: None

CJ225 Crime Scene Management

College of Business and Criminal Justice Criminal Justice Department

Course Description: This course provides an overview of crime scene management techniques used by local, state, and federal law enforcement agencies. Students will explore the various roles performed within a crime scene investigative team, examine forensic documentation techniques, analyze direct and circumstantial evidence collection methods, as well as assess procedures for packaging and preserving collected evidence.

Credit Hours: 3.00

Prerequisites: CJ200

Corequisites: None

CJ390 Crime Mapping

College of Business and Criminal Justice Criminal Justice Department

Course Description: This course will explore the practical and theoretical aspects of GIS (Geographic Information Systems) in the analysis of crime. Students will learn theories related to environment criminology and spatial criminology as well as GIS applications to crime analysis from offense clustering to offender and victim geographic analysis.

Credit Hours: 3.00

Prerequisites: CJ235

Corequisites: None