Criminal Justice courses begin

Alright the first term is done, a 5 week mid-term course. I came out with about a 96% grade in business class and 86% in Success Strategies. Now on to the fun stuff, the reason I am in this, Criminal Justice. After about a week and half break I began my new term on Weds. March 18th 2009 in the courses of Intro to Criminal Justice 1 , Intro to Police 1 and Computer Applications.

Intro to Criminal Justice, I'm very excited about taking this course as it is the gateway into all studies in my degree program. When I signed in and read the Syllabus for this course I was amazed at the introduction of our professor. A man with 40 years experience as a military and federal law enforcement officer. He has quite the resume and a very extensive background in criminal justice, working in cases around the world as a federal investigator. He also has a very extensive educational background and has been a criminal justice professor in many universities and online colleges. I feel that we are in good hands and can learn a lot from this professor. He offers us this photo of what he calls "at the office."



















Intro to Police 1, this course is pretty self explanatory, it's an introduction to law enforcement agencies,including the history of police forces throughout world history. This course is taught by a professor who was a patrol officer with the Chicago PD during the 90's and also has an extensive educational background in criminal justice. One thing that he said that I really liked was that his bachelors degree in criminal justice was very useful to him on the streets, and he thought it made him a much better officer than if he had not got it before becoming a patrol officer. This makes me feel a lot better knowing that I'm not wasting my time and I really will be able to apply what I learn in this program.

Last we have Computer Applications, which is a course of mastering Microsoft Office 2007 software, and is taught by a professor with an educational background in computers.

One thing that is new to me this term is the APA standards for writing, which all my future reports must follow these guidelines. Hopefully after a few lessons I will be able to pick this up quickly and have no problems with it. Stay tuned for more in the coming weeks, the criminal justice blog should get much more interesting now.