CRIJ 6302 Managing Controversies: The Courage to Lead
This course will provide students with a conceptual foundation for applying leadership skills, communication, organization, and self-examination to encourage challenging their own beliefs and assumptions about what constitutes effective criminal justice leadership. Students will evaluate the critical controversies and concerns of contemporary criminal justice. This course will also evaluate the various methods of critical decision-making and innovation in day-to-day criminal justice operations in dealing with controversies. The principled-based concepts of this course will provide students with precise, clear-cut directions, and the necessary tools to fulfill the day-to-day leadership role. This course will identify how challenges and controversies are met and resolved as a criminal justice administrator or as a first responder, and how challenges and controversies can significantly impact an organization or career.