Addendum - 2009 Undergraduate Catalog

Undergraduate Certificate Additions

3 Certificates that were excluded from the 2009 Undergraduate Catalog.

Corrections Management Certificate
(18 semester hours)

Objectives

• Analyze the history of the American Penal System and examine the philosophies and laws of punishment and sentencing.
• Analyze key Supreme Court case decisions specifically pertaining to the constitutional rights of those incarcerated in an American correctional facility.
• Use various research methodologies to obtain comprehension of research applications and explain the relationship between two or more variables relating to a varied range of theoretical explanations for crime and criminality.
• Assess various correctional treatment strategies employed in correctional facilities, as well as the impact of these strategies on the administrators of the facilities to comply with a variety of governmental agencies and their mandated requirements pertaining to specific inmate special population groups.
• Assess the roles of probation and parole officials and the interrelationship with the correctional programs.
  
  
• CMRJ201 / CJ301 - Criminal Justice Administration
• CMRJ202 / CJ312 - Stress Management in Law Enforcement
• CMRJ308 / CJ308 - Ethics in Criminal Justice
• CMRJ314 / CJ314 - Contemporary Criminal Justice Issues
• CMRJ316 / CJ316 - Corrections and Incarceration
• CMRJ317 / CJ317 - Probation and Parole

Forensics Certificate
(23 semester hours)   

Objectives

• Determine the usefulness of trace elements for the forensic comparison of various types of physical evidence and relate the advantages of evidence collection from the forensic scientist's point of view.
• Explain how the science and art of profiling crime scenes, and subsequently offenders, from physical and psychological evidence is key to the investigation of crimes for which there is no known perpetrator.
• Analyze contemporary practices associated with investigating the manner and cause of sudden, unexpected and violent death.
• Assess environmental influences and motivating factors that result in criminal behavior.
• Describe how approaches to profiling can be applied to assist in solving crimes.
• Discuss principles of criminal liability and the acts, mental state, and attendant circumstances that are central ingredients in crimes against society, persons, or property.
• Describe why a basic knowledge of chemistry and human anatomy is critical in the world of forensics.
  
  
• CMRJ329 / CJ329 - Criminal Profiling
• CMRJ335 / CJ335 - Crime Analysis
• CMRJ341 / CJ341 - Criminalistics
• CMRJ402 / CJ304 - The Pathology of Death Investigations
• LSTD302 / CJ331 - Criminal Law
• SCIN102 / SC101 - Introduction to Chemistry
• SCIN103 / SC199 - Introduction to Chemistry Lab
• SCIN104 / SC102 - Introduction to Human Anatomy and Physiology
• SCIN105 / SC122 - Introducation to Human Anatomy and Physiology Lab

Instructional Design and Delivery Certificate
(18 semester hours) 

Objectives

• Develop communication skills necessary for establishing and maintaining effective relationships in the workplace, as well as personal relationships within the family.
• Apply the knowledge and skills necessary to effectively conduct instruction in a classroom environment.
• Examine and discuss basic learning processes, such as conditioning, instrumental learning, principles of reinforcement, and learning and performance of motor skills.
• Identify and discuss learning methods used by adults in everyday life that contribute to adults being “lifelong learners.”
• Apply practices of learning measurement and evaluation in teaching and/or instructional settings.

• COMM285 / GM285 - Interpersonal Communications
• EDUC320 / GM308 - Classroom Management
• EDUC340 / PY357 - Adult Learning Theory
• EDUC401 / PY355 - Curriculum Design
• EDUC402 / PY356 - Measurement and Evaluation
• PSYC303 / PY303 - Learning and Cognition

Bachelor of Science in Criminal Justice with a Concentration in Forensics

Course name correction in the Forensics Concentration.

• CMRJ498 - Forensic Law Enforcement Capstone

Associate of Arts in General Studies

Addition of Program Description and Program Objectives.

The Associate of Arts in General Studies degree is designed to provide a solid foundation for further academic achievement, providing students opportunities to develop knowledge, skills, and abilities that are readily applicable to the student’s personal or professional interests. The program also prepares students for entry into baccalaureate degree programs.

Program Objectives:

• Graduates will be able to use knowledge across a wide diversity of subjects, views, works, and authors, from which they will have a general academic foundation.
• Graduates will be able to identify their personal, ,academic, and professional/career goals and strategies that are integrated within a meaningful approach to life.
• Graduates will be able to effectively read, write, and analyze across a number of disciplines.
• Graduates will be able to identify issues and problems, then formulate and frame solutions to these problems.
  

IT Related Programs - text added to specific course descriptions.

For the courses listed below, the following sentence has been added to their course descriptions.
"This software is not provided by the course material grant and must be purchased/provided by the student".

DSIN121, DSIN141, DSIN142, DSIN241, DSIN242, ENTD361, ENTD371, ENTD381, ENTD461, ENTD462, ENTD463, ENTD481,INFO111, INFO161, INFO221, INFO261, INFO262, INFO271, INFO321, INFO361, INFO371, INFO471, ISSC341, ITCC101, ITCC102,WEBD241, WEBD121, WEBD311, WEBD361,    

Withdrawal Fee statement removed

If a student earning academic credit submits an online Drop/Withdrawal from Course form after the first week of the course has ended, s/he will be withdrawn administratively and will receive a grade of "W" as long as the withdrawal was requested during the allowed timeframe. A “W” grade does not carry a grade point value and has no effect on the student's cumulative APUS GPA. Students taking courses as Audit (not seeking academic credit) will receive a "W" if they withdraw at any time during the course. Students taking Audit courses are not eligible for any tuition refund after week 1 of their course.

Minnesota State Licensure

American Public University System is registered as a private institution with the Minnesota Office of Higher Education pursuant to Minnesota Statutes, sections 136A.61 to 136A.71. Registration is not an endorsement of the institution. Credits earned at the institution may not transfer to all other institutions.