SPEA
Graduate
Student Learning Outcomes
Graduate Certificates
Crime Analysis Certificate
Upon completion of this certificate program, students shall:
- Empirically analyze criminal justice system data to develop strategic, operational and tactical outcomes
- Conduct geographic information systems analysis
- Conceptualize and translate raw data into valid criminal and intelligence information
- Detect and understand the distinction between crime patterns, series and trends
- Demonstrate a familiarity with motives for crime and types of criminals
- Articulate crime problems to individuals and groups through written reports and data visualization
- Identify, analyze and deconstruct the complex intersection of social problems related to criminal justice policy
- Evaluate criminal justice policy and generate innovative solutions to improve those policies
Executive Graduate Certificate in Library Management
Upon completion of this certificate program, students shall:
- Demonstrate the ability to lead and manage public and nonprofit organizations.
- Demonstrate the ability to analyze, synthesize, think critically, solve problems and make decisions.
- Demonstrate the ability to communicate and interact productively with a diverse and changing workforce and citizenry.
- Demonstrate the ability to evaluate the credibility of library resources and services.
Homeland Security and Emergency Management (HSEM) Certificate
Upon completion of this certificate program, students will:
- Manage and lead individuals and organizations with an understanding of the ethical underpinnings and professional standards of criminal justice and public safety agencies.
- Communicate effectively and interact productively within a complex and diverse criminal justice or public safety environment.
- Identify public safety risks using various risk analysis tools, and describe ways to plan, prepare, manage, and mitigate natural and human made risks.
- Critically discuss criminal justice and public safety system actors, agencies, and processes, describe the underlying operations of police, emergency management, courts, and corrections agencies, and identify the major policy issues in criminal justice and public safety systems.
- Define and describe homeland security, how federal state and local agencies work to maintain homeland security, and how it relates to public safety, in theory and in practice.
- Describe the elements of effective leadership before, during, and after major public safety events.
Nonprofit Management Certificate
Upon completion of this certificate program, students shall:
- Students shall demonstrate the ability to lead and manage public and nonprofit organizations.
- Students shall demonstrate the ability to analyze, synthesize, think critically, solve problems and make decisions.
- Students shall demonstrate the ability to communicate and interact productively with a diverse and changing workforce and citizenry.
Public Management Certificate
Upon completion of this certificate program, students shall:
- Demonstrate the ability to lead and manage public and nonprofit organizations.
- Demonstrate the ability to analyze, synthesize, think critically, solve problems and make decisions.
- Demonstrate the ability to communicate and interact productively with a diverse and changing workforce and citizenry.
Social Entrepreneurship Certificate
Upon completion of this certificate program, students shall:
- Demonstrate the ability to lead and manage public and nonprofit organizations.
- Demonstrate the ability to analyze, synthesize, think critically, solve problems and make decisions.
- Demonstrate the ability to communicate and interact productively with a diverse and changing workforce and citizenry.
- Demonstrate an understanding of social entrepreneurship in public and private sectors.
- Demonstrate the managerial and policy skills to effectively undertake leadership roles in social entrepreneurship.
