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Schedule

Lesson 1: Getting Started

Readings:
  • View the Getting Started Lesson

Assignments:
  1. Self introduction in the Discussion Forum
  2. Student Questionnaire Form
  3. Academic Integrity Statement
  4. Document Practice
Lesson 2: Police History and the Organization of Public and Private Security in the United States

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Assignments:
  1. Discussion Forum Activities
Lesson 3: Organizing the Police Department and Becoming a Police officer

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Assignments:
  1. Discussion Forum Activities
 Exam I

Readings:
  • None

Assignments:
  • Take Exam I
Lesson 4: The Police Role and Police Discretion

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Assignments:

 
  1. Discussion Activities
Lesson 5: The Police Culture, Personality and Stress

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Assignments:
  1. Discussion Activities
Lesson 6: Minorities in Policing

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Assignments:
  1. Discussion Activities
Exam II

Readings:
  • None

Assignments:
  1. Take Exam II
Lesson 7: Police Ethics and Police Deviance

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Assignments:
  1. Discussion Activities
Lesson 8: Patrol Operations and Investigations

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  Assignments:
  1. Discussion Activities
Lesson 9: Police and their Clients & Community Policing: The Debate Continues

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Assignments:
  1. Discussion Activities
 Exam III

Readings:
  • None

Assignments:
  1. Take Exam III
  2. Discussion Activities
Lesson 10: Police and the Law

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Assignments:
  1. Discussion Activities
Lesson 11: Computers, Technology, and Criminalistics in Policing AND Lesson 12: Homeland Defense

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Assignments:
  1. Discussion Activities
 Exam IV

Assignments:
  • Take Exam IV

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