2022-2023 Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
Course Descriptions
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Course Descriptions
The following is a listing of courses and abridged descriptions of all Alliant International University courses available at the time of publication. Please note that the academic programs are under continuous review and evaluation. Therefore, courses may vary somewhat from those described on the following pages.
Note: Classes not found in the program description may not be taught on the campus where the student is attending. Check online course schedules for a list of classes available at each site in a given semester/term.
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FOR62280 - Forensic Victimology: Prevention and Safety Planning(3 units)
This course focuses on the practices that support prevention of victimization and revictimization. Research related to crime prevention will be explored. The course will also focus upon threat assessment in various milieu (public venues, households, the workplace, school campuses), as well as specific safety planning strategies to support the prevention of victimization.
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FOR62290 - Assessment of Complex Trauma in Service Personnel and Veterans(3 units)
This course explores the types of conflict and associated stressors commonly experienced by military personnel, and examines typical psychological and physiological responses to extreme circumstances and environments. Students will engage in evidence-based assessment of not uncommon psychiatric responses, including acute stress, depression, substance use disorder, combat-related PTSD, and traumatic brain injury.
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FOR62320 - Threats to Police Officer Wellness & Psychological Svcs in Law Enforcement(3 units)
This course explores police officer wellness and the psychological services that help to maintain optimal functioning. The first half of the course focuses on the internal and external threats to officer wellness. The internal threats include maladaptive stress responses, the nature of fear, implicit bias and the role of heuristics, and the neurobiology of police wellness. External threats include the moral risks of policing, compassion fatigue and burnout, moral distress, moral injury, and other operational stress injuries. The course examines the rates of PTSD, the epidemic of police suicide, and the relationship between police wellness and ethics. The second half of the course focuses on psychological services in law enforcement organizations and covers models and strategies of intervention as well as initiatives for prevention. Interventions include traditional psychotherapeutic modalities and critical and traumatic incident response as well as specialized mental health services for first responders. Ancillary prevention and intervention services are explored including peer support, chaplaincy, dedicated wellness units, spouse auxiliary groups, and positive psychology workshops.
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FOR62340 - Telemental Health and the Law(3 units)
This course examines relevant legal and ethical considerations for mental health professional seeking to engage in telemental health as part of their practice. Privacy considerations, informed consent, HIPAA-HITECH, and multijurisdictional issues are explored.
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FOR62380 - Effective Collaboration(3 units)
This course provides the mental health professional collaborating with law enforcement with guidelines for supporting a successful partnership through identification of comprehensive community resources and linkages, and engagement in case management follow-up. Program evaluation design and implementation are also discussed to ensure on-going efficacy of the collaboration.
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FOR63000 - Crisis Communication and Leadership(3 units)
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FOR63020 - Criminal Law and the Justice System(3 units)
The course provides an understanding of basic criminal law and the criminal justice process. Addresses criminal law elements and definitions, as well as factual and legal questions and controversies. Examines the criminal judicial process from arrest through appeal and explores guiding legal rulings and principles. Includes criminal defenses, constitutional guarantees, and issues in punishment.
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FOR63050 - Threat Assessment & Risk Management(3 units)
This course provides an overview of approaches to identifying and mitigating potential violent activity in a variety of contexts, with an emphasis on Behavioral Threat Assessment processes and strategies. The course examines identifying, assessing and managing threats to safety through the lenses of Behavioral Threat Assessment, quantitative & qualitative violence risk assessment, behavior analysis, victim roles and dynamics, and industry best-practices in threat management.
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FOR63070 - Ideological & Political Conflict(3 units)
This course examines conflict arising from differences in closely held modern-day ideologies. The course addresses extremism in all forms, and the pathways from ideology to extremism to conflict to violent action. Conflict between ideology and law, the contribution of identity to conflict, the potential for violent conflict between small and large groups and between fringe groups and establishment, and historical and contemporary measures to reduce such conflict are covered.
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FOR63120 - Targeted Violence and Threat Assessment(3 units)
This course examines theories and approaches to identifying and mitigating potential acts of targeted violence across contexts. The course examines risk factors for violence, behavioral indicators of intent, and threatening communications; provides an overview of evaluation and management of human threats to safety in a variety of contexts, stalking, school and workplace threats; and addresses victim factors associated with risk and safety.
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FOR63140 - Victim Advocacy and the Justice System(3 units)
This course addresses victims’ rights, historically and currently, victim interactions with the justice community, and court decisions and legislation impacting victims. Justice system and social service programs, partnerships and initiatives are explored, as are victim advocacy and restorative justice, its theory, application, efficacy, and potential in different contexts and in relation to different types of victimization.
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FOR63160 - Voir Dire & Jury Selection(3 units)
This course provides an in-depth examination of theories, research, controversies and practices associated with empaneling juries and in predicting outcomes. The course explores pre-trial methods of managing the impact of individual factors on deliberation, evidence processing and decision-making in criminal and civil trials.
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FOR63170 - Forensic Linguistics: Global Case Studies(3 units)
This course takes a case-analysis approach to explore the application of forensic linguistics to legal questions, and its use in investigations, intelligence, and criminal and civil court proceedings. Topics include death threats and suicide letters, valid and false confessions, authorship investigations, perjury, plagiarism, criminal apprehension, and exoneration.
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FOR63180 - Threat Management in Context: School, Higher Ed., and Workplace Violence(3 units)
This course examines intended violence in schools, institutions of higher education, and workplaces from a threat assessment and management perspective. The course includes violence prevention, investigation, and mitigation strategies within these contexts, as well as relevant legal issues and strategies to overcome potential barriers.
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FOR63210 - Threats & Intimacy: Stalking, Family & Intimate Partner Violence(3 units)
This course explores stalking and its relationship to violence from a threat assessment perspective. The course examines the factors that respectively increase and decrease the risk of violence and potential lethality in these contexts and focuses on methods of identifying violent intent and mitigating violence potential.
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FOR64000 - Forensic Risk Assessment(3 units)
This course examines theories and evidence-based approaches to identifying and ameliorating risk for deviant or criminal behavior in various contexts including societal, interpersonal, school and workplace. Explores factors associated with problem behavior, including both contributing (risk) and protective factors, and the controversies associated with risk prediction. Provides an overview of risk assessment tools and methods and of risk management techniques and issues.
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FOR64020 - Evidence, Testimony & The Expert Witness(3 units)
This course provides a comprehensive overview of the rules of evidence, including physical evidence, testimony, and scientific evidence. Concepts including types of evidence, principles of evidence gathering, search and seizure, presumptions, exclusionary rules, eyewitnesses, and admissions and confessions will be explored. Additionally, the course covers principles associated with providing scientifically-sound expert testimony, writing expert witness reports, and the legal and ethical principles associated with serving as an expert witness.
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FOR64030 - Arson Dynamics and Prevention(3 units)
This course explores the crime of arson - its prevalence rates, common characteristics, and the general profile of arsonists - as well as the standard programs adopted by municipalities and businesses to promote fire safety and prevention, and to reduce recidivism.
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FOR64040 - Investigation, Forensic Interviewing and Report Writing(3 units)
This course provides a comprehensive overview of the rules of evidence, including physical evidence, testimony, and scientific evidence. Concepts including types of evidence, principles of evidence gathering, search and seizure, presumptions, exclusionary rules, eyewitnesses, and admissions and confessions will be explored. Additionally, the course covers principles associated with providing scientifically-sound expert testimony, writing expert witness reports, and the legal and ethical principles associated with serving as an expert witness.
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FOR64120 - Contemporary Threat Management(3 units)
This course provides a foundation for assessing and managing human threats to safety in a variety of contexts and types of locations including businesses and organizations, schools and universities, hospitals and other medical facilities, centers of worship and other public and private establishments.
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FOR64140 - Conflict Resolution and Peacebuilding(3 units)
This course incorporates theory and contemporary evidence-based models and best practices to analyzing conflict and achieving positive outcomes in a variety of contexts. Explores barriers to effective resolution and peacebuilding and methods for overcoming those barriers, as well as differences among approaches. Includes an emphasis on analyzing ethical responsibilities and dilemmas in third-party intervention and employs case studies to examine and formulate ethical approaches to conflict resolution and peacebuilding.
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FOR64160 - Psychology of Media, Violence & Extremism(3 units)
This course examines violent crime, domestic extremism and radicalization and the various roles of entertainment, news and social media. The course explores the psychological, physiological, cognitive and social mechanisms of media influence on behavior-as well as aspects of visual news media, advertising, entertainment media and social media-that facilitate and strengthen that influence. The course addresses topics such as violent media and aggression, portrayal of crime in media, ‘copycat crime’, radicalization and violent extremism in the US.
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FOR64180 - Linguistics and Online Media(3 units)
This course examines the ways language is used in various media-particularly the internet and social media-to advance nefarious, subversive, or criminal objectives. The course focuses on the application of forensic linguistics to identifying and interrupting potentially violent behavior and addresses issues related to exploitation of the vulnerable for criminal purposes, the language of online bullying, and hate, radicalization and the pathway from ideology to violent action. The courses addresses these concepts against a backdrop of free speech and privacy.
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FOR64190 - Victimology in Context: Mass Casualty and Disaster Contexts(3 units)
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FOR64210 - Forensic Assessment Instruments II: Civil Contexts(3 units)
This course will review assessment instruments used to answer common referral questions in the civil sector, including child custody, civil commitment, civil competencies, torts for emotional distress, and employment discrimination/sexual harassment.
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FOR64220 - Scientific Inquiry in Trial Consulting(3 units)
This course focuses on the body of scientific research that is designed to inform the jury process and on the behind-the-scenes, research-based activities involved in courtroom consulting. Topics include community attitude and change of venue surveys; mock trials, shadow juries and focus groups; supplemental juror questionnaires; and data collection & management.
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FOR64260 - Evidence-Based Practices in Corrections(3 units)
This course reviews the particular impact of common and co-morbid physical, psychological, and environmental conditions on clinical intervention in correctional settings. The impact of institutional resources and priorities on treatment planning is explored. Common treatment interventions utilized in the correctional environment, including motivational interviewing and various cognitive-behavioral and psychoeducational interventions, are reviewed and practiced. The course will also review basic psychopharmacology commonly used in correctional settings. Additional best practices specific to correctional settings, strategies for working with resistant patients; counter-transference issues that arise when working within correctional settings; screening for and treating suicidality and homicidality are also explored.
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FOR64280 - Evaluating Authorship(3 units)
This course teaches students how to evaluate linguistic patterns and variations that support author profiling and author attribution. Professional, ethical, and legal issues specific to evaluating authorship are addressed.
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FOR64290 - Forensic Victimology: Investigation and Intervention(3 units)
This course provides an in-depth review of the evidence-based techniques and best practices used to engage in investigations common in victimology. Specific focus areas include Title IX, sexual harassment workplace violence/crime investigations, and school violence investigations. Students will be trained to the nuances specific to these contexts, as well as the general best practices related to interviewing subjects, working with difficult and complex witnesses, and safety planning. The last week of the course is spent in consolidating learning, and practicing self-care.
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FOR64320 - Interventions to Support Returning Military Personnel(3 units)
This course focuses on the etiology, diagnosis, and treatment of psychiatric conditions including combat-related PTSD, substance use disorder, traumatic brain injury, and depression. Research establishing empirical links between combat exposure and elevated risks for specific psychiatric conditions will be explored. Contemporary interventions, including telehealth and veteran’s courts will be examined. The effects of military service on interpersonal relationships, particularly relationships with spouses and children, will also be examined. An overview of the impact of the deployment cycle on attachment based upon a myriad of variables - length of marriage, number of children, age of children, prior exposure to military culture - will be explored. Evidence-informed intervention models to enhance military and veteran family functioning will reviewed.
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FOR64340 - Specialized Operational Support in Police Psychology(3 units)
This course provides an overview of the support and consultation that police psychologists provide to a variety of specialized operations in many law enforcement agencies. The first half of the course focuses on the involvement of police psychologists in enforcement actions such as threat assessments, stalking, workplace violence, and criminal profiling. It includes the role of mental health providers in assisting police officers who respond to psychiatric emergency calls through initiatives such as the Psychiatric Emergency Response Team (PERT) as well as training officers in the most effective ways to interact with substance abusers, individuals experiencing homelessness, and those who are experiencing behavioral health challenges. The second half of the course focuses on police psychologists’ role in improving relations between the police and members of the community through strategies such as community-oriented policing and procedural justice. Police psychologists have a unique skillset to serve as a bridge and to facilitate healing in our communities.
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FOR64360 - Best Practices in the Delivery of Telemental Health Care(3 units)
This course explores best practices for providing effective, high quality care in the telemental health environment. Includes best practices for scheduling appointments and office set-up as well as theory and practice related to assessment and intervention in the telemental health environment. Also explores best practices for managing complex patient/client issues in the telemental health environment, including clinical emergencies.
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FOR65020 - Assessment in Correctional Settings(3 units)
This course reviews and provides opportunity to simulate administration of the forensic assessment tools commonly utilized in correctional settings.
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FOR65040 - Psychological Assessment in Law Enforcement(3 units)
This course provides students with knowledge and skills related to assessment of police and public safety personnel in areas including: pre-employment, post-offer psychological evaluations of job candidates; psychological fitness-for-duty evaluations of incumbents; evaluations for FMLA eligibility; Police Officer Standards and Training (POST) requirements for PEPE and FFDE; direct threat and workplace violence assessments; psychological autopsies (for purposes other than case resolution); promotional assessments, assessment centers and inbasket approaches to assessment; and evaluations for high risk, high stress positions.
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FOR65310 - Security, Safety & Protection(3 units)
This course provides students with foundational knowledge in security concepts, theory, and application in organizational and individual contexts. The course focuses on knowledge critical to the security professional including industry standards and best-practices in various forms of asset protection; vulnerability, threat, and impact assessment; technology, multi-agency partnerships, legal issues and ethical practice.
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FOR65320 - Security and Protection Policies & Programs(3 units)
This course provides students an understanding of evidence-based planning, implementation, management, assessment and improvement of security programs, projects, procedures, and policies in various contexts including executive protection and corporate, education and travel security.
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FOR65330 - Organizational Security & Response(3 units)
This course provides students with knowledge in principles and practices associated with organizational and personnel protection and security. Specific topics include risk management strategies (e.g., avoid, assume/accept, transfer, spread), risk mitigation techniques (e.g., technology, personnel, process, facility design), background investigations and personnel onboarding, organizational security awareness and training methodologies and resources, and critical incident response.
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FOR65340 - Threat Investigation, Case Management & Communication(3 units)
This course provides students with knowledge and skills critical to conducting security investigations and managing and presenting cases. Topics include investigative terminology; surveillance, interviewing and other methods of information gathering; evidence gathering and chain of custody; principles of forensic evidence analysis; case classification, analysis and flow; case presentation, testimony and report-writing; and legal and ethical issues.
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FOR65500 - Program Evaluation in Forensic Contexts(3 units)
This course provides an overview of the concepts, techniques and processes of creating, implementing and evaluating programs designed to address forensic concerns, to reduce or prevent crime or victimization, to educate the public, to improve practices, and/or to assist victims.
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FOR70050 - Situational Analysis of Behavior(3 units)
This course provides a foundation for the interpretation of covert behavioral and environmental stimuli through each of the different aspects of non-verbal behavior, namely biometrics, kinesics, proxemics, geographics, heuristics, and atmospherics. The course covers applications for analyzing non-verbal behavior in contexts such as deception detection, interviewing, crisis intervention, investigations, threat assessment, risk management, conflict resolution, and critical incident response.
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FOR70150 - Communication and Context in Conflict Resolution(3 units)
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FOR70160 - Crisis Negotiation and Mediation(3 units)
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FOR70180 - Ideological, Political and Environmental Conflict(3 units)
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FOR70190 - Trauma and Peace Building(3 units)
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FOR70240 - Fundamentals of Forensic Victimology(3 units)
This course provides students with an overview of the field of forensic victimology, and explores the latest research on victim-offender dynamics in relation to crime and event subtypes.
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FOR70250 - Case Conceptualization and Presentation(3 units)
This course provides an in-depth examination of theory and practice related to theme development and case conceptualization. The course draws upon law, psychology and marketing disciplines as they apply to framing and persuasion in a courtroom setting. Witness communication and presentation are also addressed.
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FOR70260 - Mass, Serial and Pattern Criminals(3 units)
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FOR70270 - Sex Crimes and Offenders(3 units)
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FOR70280 - Investigative Psychology and Criminal Profiling(3 units)
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FOR70290 - Behavioral Threat Assessment(3 units)
This course examines theories and approaches to identifying and mitigating potential acts of targeted violence across contexts. The course examines risk factors for violence, behavioral indicators of intent, and threatening communications; provides an overview of evaluation and management of human threats to safety in a variety of contexts, stalking, school and workplace threats; and addresses victim factors associated with risk and safety.
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FOR70320 - Forensic Linguistics: Theory and Application(3 units)
This course covers the historical and contemporary principles and practices related to forensic linguistics, as well as the numerous contexts in which they may be applied, such as author identification, discourse analysis, forensic phonetics, linguistic dialectology, plagiarism detection, security and threat assessment.
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FOR71170 - Critical Decision-Making(3 units)
This course explores the factors that contribute to and hinder rapid decision-making, decision-making under stress, and decision-making in rapidly evolving complex situations. The course examines the respective and combined roles of cognition, physiology and behavior on the decision-making process, as well as the impact of feedback, group dynamics, and situational awareness. Applications of decision-making in complex situations, such as those encountered by military, law enforcement, organizational leaders, risk managers, threat assessment personnel, crisis responders, and critical incident commanders will be reviewed.
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FOR71270 - Legal and Procedural Concepts in Trial Consulting(3 units)
This course provides a foundation for engaging in courtroom consultation. The course covers the pre-trial through post-trial processes in criminal and civil, state and federal courtrooms as they relate to all aspects of trial consulting. Constitutional and statutory provisions, jurisdictional differences, the ethics of courtroom consultation, and the numerous ways in which behavioral science can benefit the trial process are discussed.
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FOR72220 - Jury Dynamics & Decision Making(3 units)
This course examines both group (jury) and individual (juror) deliberation and decision-making processes in a courtroom setting. The course explores the separate and interacting roles of cognition, bias, personality, attribution, belief, personal judgement, influence, extra-evidentiary and extralegal information, and group dynamics in the contexts of criminal and civil trials.
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FOR72270 - Discourse as Evidence(3 units)
This course provides an overview of the methodological approaches to language analysis, with an emphasis on the language of police interrogations, emergency calls, victim-witness and witness statements, confessions, and criminal threats. The course also examines the relationship of forensic linguistics to the judicial process, such as admissibility in court and the numerous roles of forensic linguists in informing the judicial system related to a range of domestic and international legal issues.
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FOR72280 - Forensic Victimology: Prevention and Safety Planning(3 units)
This course focuses on the practices that support prevention of victimization and revictimization. Research related to crime prevention will be explored. The course will also focus upon threat assessment in various milieu (public venues, households, the workplace, school campuses), as well as specific safety planning strategies to support the prevention of victimization.
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FOR73160 - Voir Dire & Jury Selection(3 units)
This course provides an in-depth examination of theories, research, controversies and practices associated with empaneling juries and in predicting outcomes. The course explores pre-trial methods of managing the impact of individual factors on deliberation, evidence processing and decision-making in criminal and civil trials.
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FOR73170 - Forensic Linguistics: Global Case Studies(3 units)
This course takes a case-analysis approach to explore the application of forensic linguistics to legal questions, and its use in investigations, intelligence, and criminal and civil court proceedings. Topics include death threats and suicide letters, valid and false confessions, authorship investigations, perjury, plagiarism, criminal apprehension, and exoneration.
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FOR73220 - Security, Safety & Protection(3 units)
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FOR73230 - Security and Protection Policies & Programs(3 units)
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FOR73240 - Organizational Security & Response(3 units)
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FOR74120 - Contemporary Threat Management(3 units)
This course provides a foundation for assessing and managing human threats to safety in a variety of contexts and types of locations including businesses and organizations, schools and universities, hospitals and other medical facilities, centers of worship and other public and private establishments.
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FOR74160 - Psychology of Media, Violence & Extremism(3 units)
This course examines violent crime, domestic extremism and radicalization and the various roles of entertainment, news and social media. The course explores the psychological, physiological, cognitive and social mechanisms of media influence on behavior-as well as aspects of visual news media, advertising, entertainment media and social media-that facilitate and strengthen that influence. The course addresses topics such as violent media and aggression, portrayal of crime in media, ‘copycat crime’, radicalization and violent extremism in the US.
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FOR74180 - Linguistics and Online Media(3 units)
This course examines the ways language is used in various media-particularly the internet and social media-to advance nefarious, subversive, or criminal objectives. The course focuses on the application of forensic linguistics to identifying and interrupting potentially violent behavior and addresses issues related to exploitation of the vulnerable for criminal purposes, the language of online bullying, and hate, radicalization and the pathway from ideology to violent action. The courses addresses these concepts against a backdrop of free speech and privacy.
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FOR74220 - Scientific Inquiry in Trial Consulting(3 units)
This course focuses on the body of scientific research that is designed to inform the jury process and on the behind-the-scenes, research-based activities involved in courtroom consulting. Topics include community attitude and change of venue surveys; mock trials, shadow juries and focus groups; supplemental juror questionnaires; and data collection & management.
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FOR74280 - Evaluating Authorship(3 units)
This course teaches students how to evaluate linguistic patterns and variations that support author profiling and author attribution. Professional, ethical, and legal issues specific to evaluating authorship are addressed.
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FOR74290 - Forensic Victimology: Investigation and Intervention(3 units)
This course provides an in-depth review of the evidence-based techniques and best practices used to engage in investigations common in victimology. Specific focus areas include Title IX, sexual harassment workplace violence/crime investigations, and school violence investigations. Students will be trained to the nuances specific to these contexts, as well as the general best practices related to interviewing subjects, working with difficult and complex witnesses, and safety planning. The last week of the course is spent in consolidating learning, and practicing self-care.
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FOR75340 - Threat Investigation, Case Management & Communication(3 units)
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FOR80010 - Introduction to Forensic Psychology(3 units)
This course provides a foundational understanding of the dynamic, multidimensional, sometimes dysfunctional, relationship between psychology and the legal system, as well as of the evolving application of psychology to issues of justice, safety, and security. The course focuses on both criminal and civil areas of practice, and on topics such as forensic evaluation; mental illness and adjudication; competency in legal proceedings; risk assessment; child custody; perception, cognition, and witnesses; expert testimony; trial consulting; and legal decision-making. The course also highlights psychologically informed laws and legal principles such as “psychiatric holds,” civil commitment, sexual predator statutes, juvenile waivers to adult court, and more.
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FOR80020 - Psychopathology and Abnormal Behavior(3 units)
A working knowledge of mental health disorders is vital to understanding criminal behavior, the underpinnings of some policy development, risk management, and navigating interactions with others who have been formally diagnosed with a disorder. This course provides a general understanding of mental health disorders as they are described and differentiated in the newly released DSM-V in addition to providing opportunities for students to think critically about how knowledge of adult psychopathology is essential in a variety of fields and potential policy implications.
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FOR80030 - Psychology and Law in Public Policy(3 units)
This course examines the current and potential impact of psychology on law and public policy. Through case studies, the course explores how the application – or lack thereof – of science regarding human behavior, cognition, affect, and pathology influences legal, legislative, and administrative decision-making. The course includes a particular focus on the intersections between security and liberty and between social benefit and autonomy.
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FOR80040 - Legal Research(2 units)
The course introduces foundational principles and provides practical skills associated with legal research and writing for non-law practitioners in the forensic arena. The course provides students with the ability to locate, read and interpret relevant legislation, regulations, case law and statutes; confirm that legal information is current and applicable; and cite and communicate legal information accurately. Instruction will also include legal terminology, case briefing, and other foundational components of the legal research and application process.
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FOR80050 - Media Psychology, Law, and Policy(2 units)
This course examines the relationship between media, psychology, crime, and law. The course focuses largely on the psychological aspects of media influence, the manifestations of media influence, the media-violence symbiosis, and legal and ethical considerations in news and social media. The course addresses topics such as media influence on individuals and on the legal system, social media celebrity, the First Amendment as it relates to news and social media, the evolution of news media, and media’s roles and responsibilities in public safety and social equity.
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FOR80060 - Statistics I(3 units)
This is a practical course in research design, statistical analysis, and program evaluation. It is the first course in a series of courses to support development of research competencies in psycho-legal research including students’ dissertation research and develops fundamental knowledge and skills. Design and statistical procedures are presented in lectures, reading materials and other learning activities, and each student will analyze data using various statistical procedures, explain the results of the analysis, and discuss the implications of results on the evaluated program or research project. Statistical analyses will include t-tests, correlation, ANOVA, MANOVA, multiple linear and logistic regression, factor analysis, ARIMA time series analysis, survival analysis, power analysis, and non-parametric analyses.
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FOR80070 - Statistics II(3 units)
This is a practical course in research design, statistical analysis, and program evaluation, and it is the second course in a series of courses to support development of research competencies in psycho-legal research including students’ dissertation research. It is an advanced course in statistics and builds on knowledge and skills developed in Statistics I. Design and statistical procedures are presented in lectures, reading materials and other learning activities, and each student will analyze data using various statistical procedures, explain the results of the analysis, and discuss the implications of results on the evaluated program or research project.
Prerequisites: FOR80060
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FOR80080 - Civil Law and Justice(2 units)
The United States has made significant progress in addressing de jure discrimination, but persistent de facto discrimination and inequality remain. This course will consider several reform initiatives that have tried to tackle crucial civil justice system problems and will focus on the role of law in making progress on these problems. This course will examine all of these subjects through the lens of policy advocacy: identifying the problems, the individuals, and communities most affected, and the legal solutions that can, and are, making a difference.
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FOR80090 - Criminal Law and the Justice System(3 units)
This course will focus primarily on the legal standards used by mental health professionals in the criminal justice system including 1) competence to stand trial evaluations, 2) mental state at the time of the offense (mens rea and the insanity defense), and 3) the assessment of risk/prediction of future dangerousness. This course will draw on research in clinical psychology to examine evidence law (e.g., eyewitness testimony, polygraphy, expert testimony), procedure (e.g., line-ups, trial conduct, jury selection, settlement negotiations), and other various topics in criminal law. The content of the course will be about evenly divided between understanding the legal issues involved in criminal and the practical application of psychological principals and knowledge.
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FOR80100 - Victimology(2 units)
This survey course introduces students to the scientific study of crime victims and to approaches to addressing victimization. In addition to emphasizing laws and legal issues associated with crime victimization, the course provides a foundation for understanding and evaluating current issues in the field of victimology, such as victim-offender overlap, the measurement of victimization, the impact of victimization, evidence-based prevention, contemporary theories of victimization, and systems responses to victims. Topics will also include forensic victimology and other victim-centered applications and practices.
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FOR80110 - Neurocriminology(2 units)
This course introduces students to the scientific study of neurocriminology, the application of neuroscience to understanding criminality. The course provides a foundation for understanding and evaluating current issues in the fields of neurocriminology and neuroscience and law. Topics also include the legal and ethical controversies associated with neurocriminology, as well as applications in legal contexts and public policy implications.
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FOR80120 - Forensics in a Global Context(3 units)
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FOR80130 - Forensic Consulting(2 units)
The area of forensic psychological consultation is a distinct area practice with goals and functions based on development of specific domains of knowledge and competencies rooted in both multiculturalism and ethical practices. The approaches, knowledge and skills that are needed to meaningfully contribute to different settings where in consultation may be pursued will be explored in this course. The word “Forensic” in title captures the focus on both the risk management and recovery strategies related to liability. Undesirable workplace events create opportunities for multi-disciplinary outside consultation. Organizations are often better served when outside investigators or subject matter experts intervene about concerns as a standard of practice. Some of the domains for forensic consulting include military settings, law enforcement agencies, schools, medical and pediatric settings, and finally, the civil and criminal justice system. Evidence based models of forensic consultation will be emphasized.
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FOR80140 - Forensic Program Evaluation(2 units)
This is an advanced course in applied forensic program evaluation that both reinforces and applies the foundational research design, statistical analysis, and program evaluation principles from the Statistics I-II series of courses to further develop research competencies in psycho-legal research. In addition to covering the design principles and procedures for program evaluation more deeply, the content is directly applied during the course to critically appraise forensically-oriented program evaluations across multiple disciplines such as: the impact of mental health courts on recidivism; formative and impact evaluations of community and school prevention programs for reducing children’s exposures to violence at home or in school; the impact of crisis intervention teams on various aspects of community policing; the efficacy of behavioral management units in correctional settings; and the impact of school-based intervention programs on of youth gang violence.
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FOR80150 - Communication and Conflict Resolution(3 units)
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FOR80160 - Conflict and Crisis Negotiation(3 units)
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FOR80170 - Fundamentals of Mediation(3 units)
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FOR80180 - Religion, Politics and International Conflict(3 units)
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FOR80190 - Trauma and Peace Building(3 units)
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FOR80200 - Capstone Project(3 units)
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FOR80210 - Fundamentals of Forensic Victimology(3 units)
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FOR80220 - Prevention and Safety Planning(3 units)
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FOR80230 - Investigation(3 units)
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FOR80240 - Mass Casualty and Disaster Contexts(3 units)
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FOR80250 - Research in Disaster Planning and Management(3 units)
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FOR80260 - Mass, Serial and Pattern Criminals(3 units)
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FOR80270 - Sex Crimes & Offenders(3 units)
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FOR80280 - Investigative Psychology and Criminal Profiling(3 units)
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FOR80290 - Targeted Violence & Threat Assessment(3 units)
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FOR80300 - Cyberpsychology(3 units)
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FOR80310 - Introduction to Behavior Analysis(3 units)
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FOR80320 - Decision-Making in Complex Situations(3 units)
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