Bachelor of Policing

Description:

This course covers the foundations of the 4 pillars of Emergency Management; Mitigation, Preparedness, Response, and Recovery. Students will learn the methods, concepts, strategies employed to effectively manage all facets of disasters and holistic emergency program design. This course will also review and contrast different approaches to emergency management including indigenous communities.

• Hours: 42
• Credits: 3
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• Estimated required text and/or learning resource costs: Not available at this time.

Description:

In this work-Integrated Learning course, students will consolidate knowledge, skills, and abilities in a real-life setting. Through supervised experiences with law enforcement or community organizations, students will observe, analyze, and report about public safety practices. Working as a member of a team, they will demonstrate professional communication, problem-solving and multi-tasking within a public organization.

• Hours: 105
• Credits: 4
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• Estimated required text and/or learning resource costs: Not available at this time.

Description:

This course introduces students to those federal statutes most encountered by law enforcement personnel and their relationship with the Criminal Justice System. Students will analyze elements of offences related to the Firearms Act, the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act, the Anti-terrorism Act, the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act and the Copyright Act. Provisions of other federal statutes are also examined. Students will learn to navigate through the legislation using a variety of exercises and scenarios.

• Hours: 42
• Credits: 3
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• Estimated required text and/or learning resource costs: Not available at this time.

Description: This course will focus on comprehensive theoretical understanding of group process, personal skill development and application through intensive team work. These skills are of critical importance in both professional and social settings. Through guided exploration and application of theoretical paradigms and practical strategies, students will achieve the necessary skills to succeed in and lead effective teams. The course consists in an intensive experiential approach – learning by doing – enabling participants to become effective, practiced team members with experience applying skills necessary for leadership, analysis and evaluation, problem solving, and conflict management. Individual and team activities enhance participants’ skills to work with a variety of personalities in diverse situations, and to effectively assume various professional roles within a team.

• Hours: 42
• Credits: 3
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• Estimated required text and/or learning resource costs:  The cost is included in the course fee. View the eText fee.

Description: In this course, students will critically assess social inequality and the distinctive positions of certain groups in relation to community and criminal justice. Topics will include aging populations, LGBTQ, women, poverty, race and ethnicity, colonial experiences, different abilities and religion. Through analysis of diversity and by engaging in self-reflection, students will examine the definitions of diversity and the enablers and barriers to social inclusion. This course orients learners to diversity from the perspective of anti-oppression frameworks. The course examines the social construction of social problems from a lens that highlights oppression and dominance. Issues around social justice and diversity are positioned to inform the learner about the personal, cultural, and institutional forms of oppression that maintain privilege for some and oppression for others.

• Hours: 42
• Credits: 3
• Pre-Requisites: LAW71115
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• Estimated required text and/or learning resource costs: Not available at this time.

Description: Without exception, every relationship of any depth has conflict. Understanding the nature and complexity of interpersonal conflict is critical to its successful resolution. Conflict can be and often is regarded as a negative force and experience to be avoided or least controlled. Conflict can also be seen as an opportunity for strengthening complex relationships, increasing self-awareness and enhancing personal and professional development. This course will provide students with an opportunity to explore theoretical approaches to understanding and addressing conflict through the examination of various factors that contribute to interpersonal and intrapersonal (intrapsychic), and international conflicts, and to discuss, analyse, and apply appropriate skills and strategies to manage conflicts efficiently and effectively.

• Hours: 42
• Credits: 3
• Pre-Requisites: BUS71200 OR SOC71500
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• Estimated required text and/or learning resource costs:  The cost is included in the course fee. View the eText fee.

Description: This course focuses on ethical issues faced by individuals working in the Canadian Criminal Justice System. It helps students to clarify their values and establish a framework for ethical decision-making within inter-professional, work environments. The course will develop practical skills related to critical reasoning, constructive shared problem-solving, inter-professional collaboration and approaches to ethical dilemmas. Students will develop self-awareness of the bases of their own values and ethical practices so that they may make informed ethical decisions. They will continue the development of a reflective learning portfolio.

• Hours: 42
• Credits: 3
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• Estimated required text and/or learning resource costs: $76.25

Description:

This course will introduce the student to crime scene and evidence management. Students will identify a crime scene, collect, and maintain the continuity and integrity of physical and digital forensic evidence, regarding practical and legal requirements.

• Hours: 42
• Credits: 3
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• Estimated required text and/or learning resource costs: Not available at this time.

Description:

This course equips students with essential knowledge about cybercrime, and law enforcement, investigative techniques, and prevention strategies. The investigative focus of this course will be on conducting open-source investigations with the intent of locating and gathering open-source information from a variety of sources on the Internet and within social media.

• Hours: 42
• Credits: 3
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• Estimated required text and/or learning resource costs: Not available at this time.

Description:

Building on Field Placements I and II, students will use their community placements and weekly seminars to extend individual and group learning and insights, to identify personal interests, and to further consolidate skill development in anticipation of future work placements and the third-year capstone research projects. Students will continue the development of a reflective learning portfolio.

• Hours: 105
• Credits: 4
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• Estimated required text and/or learning resource costs: Not available at this time.

Description: In this course, students will identify and critically examine cultural diversity with respect to Indigenous populations, focusing principally on those living in Canada. Special attention will be paid to cultural and systemic forms of discrimination and oppression of Indigenous peoples in Canada, which has put Indigenous peoples at increased risk of conflict with the Canadian Criminal Justice System. The course will provide an opportunity for students to develop their knowledge and awareness of important teachings/practices across various Indigenous nations in Canada. Also to be explored are the various government-legislated Acts that have defined Indigenous peoples, the colonial impositions made upon them, and conflicts arising over land claims and treaty agreements. The course will end by addressing the healing that is taking place in many Indigenous communities linked to rights and aspirations for self-determination, as well as the responsibilities of settler society for decolonization.

• Hours: 42
• Credits: 3
• Pre-Requisites:
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• Estimated required text and/or learning resource costs; ​No cost.

Description: This seminar style course is designed to facilitate critical discussion of the social construction, causes, and consequences of a range of social problems in Canadian society, and evaluate the policy responses, or lack thereof. The course includes the application and integration of sociological theories. Students will learn to use the sociological imagination, how to analyse social problems systematically, and will explore whether individual or societal solutions are needed. The topics will provide opportunities to challenge hidden assumptions, and includes focus on the significance of: age, class, gender, race, ethnicity, and sexual orientation. Problems will include: alcohol and drug abuse, family problems, poverty, education, health and illness, work, and the urban environment.

• Hours: 42
• Credits: 3
• Pre-Requisites:
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• Estimated required text and/or learning resource costs: Not available at this time.