The program map below represents an efficient and effective course taking sequence for this program. Individual circumstances might require some changes to this path. It is always recommended that you meet with your pathway counselor to develop a personalized educational plan.
This certificate of achievement is designed for students considering careers as a police officer, deputy sheriff, or highway patrol officers.
Upon completion of the program, students will:
1. Describe the development and history of law enforcement in the western world.
2. Compare and contrast legal and constitutional issues.
3. Compare and contrast components of the American criminal justice system.
Effective Term: 2024 Fall Semester
Term 1
15 units
CRIM1
Introduction to Criminology
3 units
Effective Term: 2022 Spring Semester Characteristics of the criminal justice system in the U.S. with cross cultural content; evolution of prevailing principles; crime measurement; theoretical explanations for criminality and responses to it; future challenges; functions of the police, courts and correctional system; legal process, sentencing, and incarceration policies. (A, CSU, UC)
Course Details:
CSU Transfer Course
Candidates who have competed the Basic Academy or Reserve Level 1 program may request to waive 6 units from: CRIM 1, 6, 7, and 12. (See your Pathway Counselor to submit the paperwork)
CRIM5
Community Relations
3 units
Effective Term: 2022 Spring Semester Relationship between our communities and the justice system in addressing crime and conflict; challenges and potential for administering criminal justice within a multicultural society with conflicting values in culture, religion, and law. (A, CSU, UC)
Course Details:
CSU Transfer Course
B - Social and Behavioral Sciences
CRIM6
Concepts of Criminal Law
3 units
Effective Term: 2022 Spring Semester Analysis of criminal liability in the U.S.; classification of crimes (persons, property, morals, and public welfare), elements of offenses; common and statutory law; acceptable evidence; defenses; prosecution and defense decision making. (A, CSU, UC)
Course Details:
CSU Transfer Course
Candidates who have competed the Basic Academy or Reserve Level 1 program may request to waive 6 units from: CRIM 1, 6, 7, and 12. (See your Pathway Counselor to submit the paperwork)
CRIM7
Concepts of Enforcement Services
3 units
Effective Term: 2022 Spring Semester Role expectations for line enforcement officers; patrol, traffic and public service responsibilities; physical and psychological officer survival. (A, CSU)
Course Details:
CSU Transfer Course
Candidates who have competed the Basic Academy or Reserve Level 1 program may request to waive 6 units from: CRIM 1, 6, 7, and 12. (See your Pathway Counselor to submit the paperwork)
Major Course
3 units
Select one of the following (9 units in total required):
*See counselor for courses that double count for General Education*
3 units
AFRAM1
Introduction to African American Studies
3 units
Effective Term: 2023 Spring Semester Introduction to African-American Studies: a critical interdisciplinary study of African American culture, history, and heritage from Pre Colonial West Africa through the 21st Century. This course will include an introduction to West African societies of the 15th and 16th centuries, prior to European Colonial Expansion; an examination of the transition into the era of African enslavement in Colonial America; an exploration of African American cultural development during the era of Reconstruction; an evaluation of African American political movements in response to social injustice and African American creative production; an analysis of the assimilation of African American culture into mainstream American culture during the 20th century; and finally, to examine and evaluate the African American community of the 21st Century. (A, CSU-GE, UC, I)
Course Details:
Advisory: ENGL 1A
C: Ethnic Studies
7: Ethnic Studies
D3 - Ethnic Studies
F - Ethnic Studies
CSU Transfer Course
B - Social and Behavioral Sciences
or
AFRAM4
Classical African Societies
3 units
Effective Term: 2023 Spring Semester This course provides an in-depth analysis of African Civilization from its earliest origins through the European Colonial period that includes geographical and topographical survey of the African continent, examination of the traditional African cultural traits represented in cultures and societies throughout the African continent, and evaluation and analysis of contact between African and Non-African societies during Arab and European Colonial eras. Topics covered in this course will include ancient African societies; classical African civilizations along the Nile River Complex; African cultural institutions including: religion, law, art, science, education, social obligations, and the centrality of the family unit; and the consequences of the subordination of African people throughout the world at the beginning of the European Colonial era. (A, CSU-GE, UC, I)
Course Details:
Advisory: ENGL 1A
F: History
D6 - History
CSU Transfer Course
B - Social and Behavioral Sciences
3 units
AMIND31
American Indian Culture
3 units
Effective Term: 2023 Spring Semester The Native nations of North American (American Indians) from antiquity to the present. An interdisciplinary approach to examining pre- and post settler-colonial American Indian societies and cultures. Studying the effects of invasion and colonization with an emphasis on self-preservation and maintaining tribal sovereignty. This course analyzes the racialization of American Indians, Eurocentrism, relationship to place, forced assimilation, intergenerational trauma, Indigenous cosmology and ceremony, social justice, and self-determination. (A, CSU-GE, UC, I)
Course Details:
Advisory: ENGL 1A
C: Ethnic Studies
7: Ethnic Studies
D3 - Ethnic Studies
F - Ethnic Studies
CSU Transfer Course
B - Social and Behavioral Sciences
or
AMIND34
The American Indian in Contemporary Society
3 units
Effective Term: 2023 Spring Semester American Indian in North America after the Second World War to the present; emphasis on current events and legislation; issues involving the inherent sovereignty of American Indian nations, civil rights, cultural preservation, and place in modern global society. (A, CSU-GE, UC, I)
Course Details:
Advisory: ENGL 1A
C: Ethnic Studies
D3 - Ethnic Studies
CSU Transfer Course
B - Social and Behavioral Sciences
3 units
CLS11
Introduction to Chicano-Latino Studies
3 units
Effective Term: 2023 Spring Semester The introductory course explores the Chicano/a/x and Mexican American community, culture(s) and heritage(s) in American society from an interdisciplinary approach. Focus on sociocultural challenges, struggles, and social justice movements that define the Chicano/a/x experience. Examination of the ancestral roots, dynamic migration/immigration trends, conflict, racialization processes, liberation struggles, socialization process, and sociopolitical patterns from ancient Indigenous civilizations of Mesoamerica to the present. Overview of trends and patterns in Latino/a/x populations at-large will also be explored. (A, CSU-GE, UC, I)
Course Details:
Advisory: ENGL 1A
C: Ethnic Studies
7: Ethnic Studies
D3 - Ethnic Studies
F - Ethnic Studies
CSU Transfer Course
B - Social and Behavioral Sciences
or
CLS14
Sociology of the Mexican American Community
3 units
Effective Term: 2023 Spring Semester A sociological examination of the Chicano and Latino in American society: this course examines family, religion, education, race and racialization, social class, gender, and political and social institutions. An emphasis is placed on social problems, social issues, and social change relevant to the Chicano-Latino community. (A, CSU, UC)
Course Details:
CSU Transfer Course
B - Social and Behavioral Sciences
or
SOC14
Sociology of the Mexican American Community
3 units
Effective Term: 2023 Spring Semester A sociological examination of the Chicano and Latino in American society: this course examines family, religion, education, race and racialization, social class, gender, and political and social institutions. An emphasis is placed on social problems, social issues, and social change relevant to the Chicano-Latino community. (A, CSU, UC)
Course Details:
CSU Transfer Course
B - Social and Behavioral Sciences
CRIM3
Legal Aspects of Evidence
3 units
Effective Term: 2022 Spring Semester Categories of evidence, and the legal rules relating to admission or exclusion with attention to history and development. (A, CSU)
Course Details:
CSU Transfer Course
CRIM9
Crime Scene Forensic Evidence
3 units
Effective Term: 2022 Spring Semester Introduction to forensics in criminal investigations; methods to properly locate, identify, handle, and analyze physical evidence; analysis of crime scenes; pattern evidence; instruments firearms; questioned documents; and controlled substances. (A, CSU)
Course Details:
Prerequisite: CRIM 8
CSU Transfer Course
CRIM11
Juvenile Delinquency
3 units
Effective Term: 2022 Spring Semester Origin, development, and organization of the juvenile justice system in the U.S.; theories relating to the causes and prevention of juvenile delinquency, and the treatment of youthful offenders; legal processes, and constitutional standards. (A, CSU)
Course Details:
CSU Transfer Course
CRIM13
The Constitution and Your Individual Rights
3 units
Effective Term: 2022 Spring Semester History and development of the Constitution; analysis of notable cases; historic protection of individual rights; ability of government to limit those prerogatives. (A, CSU-GE, UC)
Course Details:
A3 - Critical Thinking
CSU Transfer Course
D3 - Anaylitical Thinkning
CRIM19
Work Experience Education
3 units
Effective Term: 2024 Fall Semester Supervised employment extending the classroom based on occupational learning related to criminology. Collaborative learning objectives established specific to criminology. Orientation hours may be required. (A, CSU)
Course Details:
CSU Transfer Course
3 units
PSY2
General Psychology
3 units
Effective Term: 2021 Spring Semester Scientific study of behavior and mental processes. Topics include the history of psychology, research methods, biopsychology, lifespan development, sensation and perception, consciousness and altered states, learning and memory, thought and language, intelligence, motivation and emotion, personality, mental illness and therapy, stress and health, social psychology, and the social and cultural influences that affect behavior. (A, CSU-GE, UC, I)
Course Details:
Advisory: ENGL 1A
I: Psychology
D9 - Psychology
E - Lifelong Understanding and Self-Development
CSU Transfer Course
E2 - Lifetime Skills
or
PSY2H
Honors General Psychology
3 units
Effective Term: 2022 Spring Semester Scientific study of behavior and mental processes. Topics include the history of psychology, research methods, biopsychology, lifespan development, sensation and perception, consciousness and altered states, learning and memory, thought and language, intelligence, motivation and emotion, personality, mental illness and therapy, stress and health, social psychology, and the social and cultural influences that affect behavior. The Honors section of this course places a greater emphasis on understanding the human being as an integrated physiological, social, and psychological organism and further enriches that perspective with data and theories from related disciplines. (A, CSU-GE, UC, I)
Course Details:
I: Psychology
D9 - Psychology
E - Lifelong Understanding and Self-Development
CSU Transfer Course
E2 - Lifetime Skills
3 units
SOC1A
Introduction to Sociology
3 units
Effective Term: 2022 Spring Semester Basic concepts, theoretical approaches, and methods of sociology. Analysis and explanation of social structure, culture, socialization, the self and social interaction, group dynamics, institutions, deviance, stratification, social change, social problems, and global dynamics. (A, CSU-GE, UC, I)
Course Details:
Advisory: ENGL 1A
J: Sociology & Criminology
D10 - Sociology and Criminology
CSU Transfer Course
B - Social and Behavioral Sciences
or
SOC1AH
Honors Introduction to Sociology
3 units
Effective Term: 2022 Spring Semester Basic concepts, theoretical approaches, and methods of sociology. Analysis and explanation of social structure, culture, socialization, the self and social interaction, group dynamics, institutions, deviance, stratification, social change, social problems, and global dynamics. Places a greater emphasis than SOC 1A on methods of conducting scientific research in the field of sociology. Additional emphasis is placed on contemporary social issues as explored through supplemental readings. (A, CSU-GE, UC, I)
Course Details:
Advisory: ENGL 1A
J: Sociology & Criminology
D10 - Sociology and Criminology
CSU Transfer Course
B - Social and Behavioral Sciences
SOC2
American Minority Groups
3 units
Effective Term: 2022 Spring Semester Overview of sociological, institutional, demographic, and social-psychological aspects of ethnicity and race. Examination of non-dominant groups in the United States. (A, CSU-GE, UC, I)
Course Details:
Advisory: ENGL 1A
J: Sociology & Criminology
D10 - Sociology and Criminology
CSU Transfer Course
B - Social and Behavioral Sciences
WSTS10
Changing Roles of Women
3 units
Effective Term: 2023 Spring Semester The traditional and changing roles of women in Western society, including the effects of these roles on women as individuals, in their personal relationships, and their status in society. The contributions and contrasting perspectives of minority/ethnic women are an integral part of the course content. (A, CSU-GE, UC, I)
Course Details:
D: Gender Studies
D4 - Gender Studies
CSU Transfer Course
B - Social and Behavioral Sciences
Term 2
16 units
CRIM8
Criminal Investigation
4 units
Effective Term: 2022 Spring Semester Techniques, procedures, and ethical considerations involved in criminal investigation; organization of the process; crime scene logistics; searches; recovery and preservation of evidence; documentation; scientific examination; and trial presentation. (A, CSU)
Course Details:
CSU Transfer Course
CRIM12
Criminal Justice Communications
3 units
Effective Term: 2022 Spring Semester Fundamentals of information gathering; preparation of public safety reports, testifying; formal and informal communication with public and official agencies. (A, CSU)
Course Details:
CSU Transfer Course
Candidates who have competed the Basic Academy or Reserve Level 1 program may request to waive 6 units from: CRIM 1, 6, 7, and 12. (See your Pathway Counselor to submit the paperwork)
CRIM15
Introduction to Police Ethics
3 units
Effective Term: 2022 Spring Semester Examination of issues relating to ethical standards and violations in the criminal justice system; practical and theoretical solutions; morality and ethics in human behavior. (A, CSU)
Course Details:
CSU Transfer Course
Major Course
6 units
Select two of the following (9 units in total required):
3 units
AFRAM1
Introduction to African American Studies
3 units
Effective Term: 2023 Spring Semester Introduction to African-American Studies: a critical interdisciplinary study of African American culture, history, and heritage from Pre Colonial West Africa through the 21st Century. This course will include an introduction to West African societies of the 15th and 16th centuries, prior to European Colonial Expansion; an examination of the transition into the era of African enslavement in Colonial America; an exploration of African American cultural development during the era of Reconstruction; an evaluation of African American political movements in response to social injustice and African American creative production; an analysis of the assimilation of African American culture into mainstream American culture during the 20th century; and finally, to examine and evaluate the African American community of the 21st Century. (A, CSU-GE, UC, I)
Course Details:
Advisory: ENGL 1A
C: Ethnic Studies
7: Ethnic Studies
D3 - Ethnic Studies
F - Ethnic Studies
CSU Transfer Course
B - Social and Behavioral Sciences
or
AFRAM4
Classical African Societies
3 units
Effective Term: 2023 Spring Semester This course provides an in-depth analysis of African Civilization from its earliest origins through the European Colonial period that includes geographical and topographical survey of the African continent, examination of the traditional African cultural traits represented in cultures and societies throughout the African continent, and evaluation and analysis of contact between African and Non-African societies during Arab and European Colonial eras. Topics covered in this course will include ancient African societies; classical African civilizations along the Nile River Complex; African cultural institutions including: religion, law, art, science, education, social obligations, and the centrality of the family unit; and the consequences of the subordination of African people throughout the world at the beginning of the European Colonial era. (A, CSU-GE, UC, I)
Course Details:
Advisory: ENGL 1A
F: History
D6 - History
CSU Transfer Course
B - Social and Behavioral Sciences
3 units
AMIND31
American Indian Culture
3 units
Effective Term: 2023 Spring Semester The Native nations of North American (American Indians) from antiquity to the present. An interdisciplinary approach to examining pre- and post settler-colonial American Indian societies and cultures. Studying the effects of invasion and colonization with an emphasis on self-preservation and maintaining tribal sovereignty. This course analyzes the racialization of American Indians, Eurocentrism, relationship to place, forced assimilation, intergenerational trauma, Indigenous cosmology and ceremony, social justice, and self-determination. (A, CSU-GE, UC, I)
Course Details:
Advisory: ENGL 1A
C: Ethnic Studies
7: Ethnic Studies
D3 - Ethnic Studies
F - Ethnic Studies
CSU Transfer Course
B - Social and Behavioral Sciences
or
AMIND34
The American Indian in Contemporary Society
3 units
Effective Term: 2023 Spring Semester American Indian in North America after the Second World War to the present; emphasis on current events and legislation; issues involving the inherent sovereignty of American Indian nations, civil rights, cultural preservation, and place in modern global society. (A, CSU-GE, UC, I)
Course Details:
Advisory: ENGL 1A
C: Ethnic Studies
D3 - Ethnic Studies
CSU Transfer Course
B - Social and Behavioral Sciences
3 units
CLS11
Introduction to Chicano-Latino Studies
3 units
Effective Term: 2023 Spring Semester The introductory course explores the Chicano/a/x and Mexican American community, culture(s) and heritage(s) in American society from an interdisciplinary approach. Focus on sociocultural challenges, struggles, and social justice movements that define the Chicano/a/x experience. Examination of the ancestral roots, dynamic migration/immigration trends, conflict, racialization processes, liberation struggles, socialization process, and sociopolitical patterns from ancient Indigenous civilizations of Mesoamerica to the present. Overview of trends and patterns in Latino/a/x populations at-large will also be explored. (A, CSU-GE, UC, I)
Course Details:
Advisory: ENGL 1A
C: Ethnic Studies
7: Ethnic Studies
D3 - Ethnic Studies
F - Ethnic Studies
CSU Transfer Course
B - Social and Behavioral Sciences
or
CLS14
Sociology of the Mexican American Community
3 units
Effective Term: 2023 Spring Semester A sociological examination of the Chicano and Latino in American society: this course examines family, religion, education, race and racialization, social class, gender, and political and social institutions. An emphasis is placed on social problems, social issues, and social change relevant to the Chicano-Latino community. (A, CSU, UC)
Course Details:
CSU Transfer Course
B - Social and Behavioral Sciences
or
SOC14
Sociology of the Mexican American Community
3 units
Effective Term: 2023 Spring Semester A sociological examination of the Chicano and Latino in American society: this course examines family, religion, education, race and racialization, social class, gender, and political and social institutions. An emphasis is placed on social problems, social issues, and social change relevant to the Chicano-Latino community. (A, CSU, UC)
Course Details:
CSU Transfer Course
B - Social and Behavioral Sciences
CRIM3
Legal Aspects of Evidence
3 units
Effective Term: 2022 Spring Semester Categories of evidence, and the legal rules relating to admission or exclusion with attention to history and development. (A, CSU)
Course Details:
CSU Transfer Course
CRIM9
Crime Scene Forensic Evidence
3 units
Effective Term: 2022 Spring Semester Introduction to forensics in criminal investigations; methods to properly locate, identify, handle, and analyze physical evidence; analysis of crime scenes; pattern evidence; instruments firearms; questioned documents; and controlled substances. (A, CSU)
Course Details:
Prerequisite: CRIM 8
CSU Transfer Course
CRIM11
Juvenile Delinquency
3 units
Effective Term: 2022 Spring Semester Origin, development, and organization of the juvenile justice system in the U.S.; theories relating to the causes and prevention of juvenile delinquency, and the treatment of youthful offenders; legal processes, and constitutional standards. (A, CSU)
Course Details:
CSU Transfer Course
CRIM13
The Constitution and Your Individual Rights
3 units
Effective Term: 2022 Spring Semester History and development of the Constitution; analysis of notable cases; historic protection of individual rights; ability of government to limit those prerogatives. (A, CSU-GE, UC)
Course Details:
A3 - Critical Thinking
CSU Transfer Course
D3 - Anaylitical Thinkning
CRIM19
Work Experience Education
3 units
Effective Term: 2024 Fall Semester Supervised employment extending the classroom based on occupational learning related to criminology. Collaborative learning objectives established specific to criminology. Orientation hours may be required. (A, CSU)
Course Details:
CSU Transfer Course
3 units
PSY2
General Psychology
3 units
Effective Term: 2021 Spring Semester Scientific study of behavior and mental processes. Topics include the history of psychology, research methods, biopsychology, lifespan development, sensation and perception, consciousness and altered states, learning and memory, thought and language, intelligence, motivation and emotion, personality, mental illness and therapy, stress and health, social psychology, and the social and cultural influences that affect behavior. (A, CSU-GE, UC, I)
Course Details:
Advisory: ENGL 1A
I: Psychology
D9 - Psychology
E - Lifelong Understanding and Self-Development
CSU Transfer Course
E2 - Lifetime Skills
or
PSY2H
Honors General Psychology
3 units
Effective Term: 2022 Spring Semester Scientific study of behavior and mental processes. Topics include the history of psychology, research methods, biopsychology, lifespan development, sensation and perception, consciousness and altered states, learning and memory, thought and language, intelligence, motivation and emotion, personality, mental illness and therapy, stress and health, social psychology, and the social and cultural influences that affect behavior. The Honors section of this course places a greater emphasis on understanding the human being as an integrated physiological, social, and psychological organism and further enriches that perspective with data and theories from related disciplines. (A, CSU-GE, UC, I)
Course Details:
I: Psychology
D9 - Psychology
E - Lifelong Understanding and Self-Development
CSU Transfer Course
E2 - Lifetime Skills
3 units
SOC1A
Introduction to Sociology
3 units
Effective Term: 2022 Spring Semester Basic concepts, theoretical approaches, and methods of sociology. Analysis and explanation of social structure, culture, socialization, the self and social interaction, group dynamics, institutions, deviance, stratification, social change, social problems, and global dynamics. (A, CSU-GE, UC, I)
Course Details:
Advisory: ENGL 1A
J: Sociology & Criminology
D10 - Sociology and Criminology
CSU Transfer Course
B - Social and Behavioral Sciences
or
SOC1AH
Honors Introduction to Sociology
3 units
Effective Term: 2022 Spring Semester Basic concepts, theoretical approaches, and methods of sociology. Analysis and explanation of social structure, culture, socialization, the self and social interaction, group dynamics, institutions, deviance, stratification, social change, social problems, and global dynamics. Places a greater emphasis than SOC 1A on methods of conducting scientific research in the field of sociology. Additional emphasis is placed on contemporary social issues as explored through supplemental readings. (A, CSU-GE, UC, I)
Course Details:
Advisory: ENGL 1A
J: Sociology & Criminology
D10 - Sociology and Criminology
CSU Transfer Course
B - Social and Behavioral Sciences
SOC2
American Minority Groups
3 units
Effective Term: 2022 Spring Semester Overview of sociological, institutional, demographic, and social-psychological aspects of ethnicity and race. Examination of non-dominant groups in the United States. (A, CSU-GE, UC, I)
Course Details:
Advisory: ENGL 1A
J: Sociology & Criminology
D10 - Sociology and Criminology
CSU Transfer Course
B - Social and Behavioral Sciences
WSTS10
Changing Roles of Women
3 units
Effective Term: 2023 Spring Semester The traditional and changing roles of women in Western society, including the effects of these roles on women as individuals, in their personal relationships, and their status in society. The contributions and contrasting perspectives of minority/ethnic women are an integral part of the course content. (A, CSU-GE, UC, I)