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  • CIS 275: Network Security Fundamentals

    3.00 Credits
    Montgomery County Community College

    This course will introduce students to the basic elements of establishing a secure network, including security objectives, security architecture, security models and security layers. Students will analyze what elements contribute to high quality risk management, network security policy, and security training. This course focuses on the five security keys: Confidentiality, Integrity, Availability, Accountability, and Auditability. Successful completion of this course prepares students to take appropriate industry certifications in the security field.
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  • CIS 276: Game & Simulation Programming Foundations

    3.00 Credits
    Montgomery County Community College

    This course introduces students to the necessary mathematical techniques and physical modeling principles for electronic game and simulation development. Students will learn mathematical tools underlying the development of gaming software algorithms. They will use a range of software products to implement these algorithms and modeling methods.
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  • CJS 100: Introduction to Criminal Justice

    3.00 Credits
    Montgomery County Community College

    The course introduces the student to the American system of criminal justice. Its growth and development will be examined with emphasis placed on the various subsystems of the criminal justice system (substantive and procedural criminal law; police, prosecution, defense, courts, institutional and community corrections; and the juvenile justice system). Additionally, contemporary issues that challenge the functional efficiency and effectiveness of the criminal justice system will be addressed. Students will learn the terminology of the field, have the opportunity to evaluate personal attitudes and values regarding crime and responses to crime.
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  • CJS 105: Criminal Law

    3.00 Credits
    Montgomery County Community College

    An introduction to the origins and functions of the substantive criminal law of Pennsylvania; a survey and analysis of the elements of major offenses in common law and under modern penal codes, and the available defenses; a consideration and discussion of leading judicial interpretation of penal codes and criminal law.
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  • CJS 107: Criminal Procedure & Rules of Evidence

    3.00 Credits
    Montgomery County Community College

    This course provides an in-depth exploration of the laws and constitutional cases governing criminal procedure in the American criminal justice system. The course focuses on the "police phase" of the criminal process, including custody and seizures, arrests, interrogation, identification procedures. It also provides a survey of the rules of evidence in criminal proceedings, their origins and history, the use of both direct and circumstantial evidence in proving guilt or innocence, witness reliability, hearsay, and the use of inference. The course also highlights both procedural and evidentiary rules governing the investigative and prosecutorial phases of law enforcement, including the role of investigating grand juries, and the defense and police misconduct aspects of entrapment.
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  • CJS 200: Criminal Investigation

    3.00 Credits
    Montgomery County Community College

    The theory of investigation, conduct at crime scenes, the collection, handling and preservation of criminal evidence and other criminal investigation practices and procedures, discussion of scientific aids and their uses in investigation; preparation of cases, emphasizing methods and problems of information and interrogation.
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  • CJS 201: Introduction to Criminal Forensics (Criminalistics)

    4.00 Credits
    Montgomery County Community College

    This course will familiarize students with the basic principles and uses of forensic science in the context of the American criminal justice systems. Forensic science, which is the study and application of science to legal processes, will be related to the collection, examination, evaluation and interpretation of evidence. The field of forensics encompasses many areas in both the physical and social sciences. This course will focus on the application of modern science to physical evidence collection, preservation, and analysis, which, if properly utilized, can be crucial in the resolution of social and legal disputes. This course will review and illustrate through actual laboratory demonstration, basic applications and methodologies in the biological, physical, and behavioral sciences to questions of evidence and law.
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  • CJS 205: Ethics & American Criminal Justice System

    3.00 Credits
    Montgomery County Community College

    "Ethics and the American Criminal Justice System" presents an introduction to the ethical issues arising in the law, to the methodology by which ethical deliberations are resolved, and to the personal-societal implications of decision-making. The course will focus upon the judicial system as an institution, the legal system philosophy, criminality, liability, corrections, the role of law enforcement and current legal issues.
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  • CJS 220: Criminology

    3.00 Credits
    Montgomery County Community College

    A study of crime and delinquency patterns, their causes, and remedial measures, emphasizing social, economic, and psychological forces involved in the shaping of criminal behavior. The role of law enforcement and the functioning of treatment and punishment models will also be discussed.
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  • CJS 235: Introduction to Juvenile Justice System

    3.00 Credits
    Montgomery County Community College

    This course introduces the student to the origins and development of the juvenile justice system in the United States. Students will study the juvenile justice system and child welfare systems from historical, legal, and institutional perspectives. Students will become familiar with the substantive law of Pennsylvania in terms of delinquency and child abuse with some international comparisons. Problems and theories of delinquency, interdisciplinary communication and diversion of selected juvenile offenders from the formal justice system will be explored. Each component of the system: police, courts, probation and community corrections are analyzed and recommendations for improvement are considered. The community and the schools and their role in delinquency prevention will be covered. Lastly, there will be a study of the nature, magnitude, and social location of youth crime; analysis of causal theories, and an overview of programs aimed at delinquency prevention and control.
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