Source (2025): https://calstatela.curriculog.com/proposal:18965/form
Program Learning Outcomes (PLOs)
Criminal Justice PLO 1: Students will appraise social scientific concepts, theories, research, laws, and ethics to examine how they explain common problems and inform contemporary practices of the justice systems.
SLO 1.1: Students will apply social scientific concepts, theories, and research related to the justice system.
SLO 1.2: Students will analyze how social scientific concepts, theories, and research relate to contemporary problems of the justice system.
Criminal Justice PLO 2: Students will evaluate how justice systems practices are applied in diverse communities both locally and nationally through active learning, civic engagement, and service-learning opportunities.
SLO 2.1: Students will examine applied criminal justice practices through civic engagement locally.
SLO 2.2: Students will assess the impact of criminal justice applied practices through civic learning opportunities locally and/or nationally.
Criminal Justice PLO 3: Students will critique responses to contemporary problems within the justice systems at local, state, and national levels.
SLO 3.1: Students will analyze a contemporary criminal justice problem.
SLO 3.2: Students will evaluate programs within the justice systems.
Fit with the Institutional Mission or Institutional Learning Outcomes (ILO)
Criminal Justice PLO 1: Students will appraise social scientific concepts, theories, research, laws, and ethics to examine how they explain common problems and inform contemporary practices of the justice systems (aligns with ILO1: Knowledge: Mastery of content and processes of Inquiry).
SLO 1.1: Students will apply social scientific concepts, theories, and research related to the justice system.
SLO 1.2: Students will analyze how social scientific concepts, theories, and research relate to contemporary problems of the justice system.
Criminal Justice PLO 2: Students will evaluate how justice systems practices are applied in diverse communities both locally and nationally through active learning, civic engagement, and service-learning opportunities (aligns with ILO3: Place and Community: Urban and global mission and ILO4: Transformation: Integrative learning).
SLO 2.1: Students will examine applied criminal justice practices through civic engagement locally.
SLO 2.2: Students will assess the impact of criminal justice applied practices through civic learning opportunities locally and/or nationally.
Criminal Justice PLO 3: Students will critique responses to contemporary problems within the justice systems at local, state, and national levels (aligns with ILO2: Proficiency: Intellectual skills and ILO4: Transformation: Integrative learning).
SLO 3.1: Students will analyze a contemporary criminal justice problem.
SLO 3.2: Students will evaluate programs within the justice systems.
