Community and Organizational Leadership in the Justice System

Effective: Fall 2022
Certificate of Achievement Program Map
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This program map from the 2024-2025 catalog year represents one possible pathway to complete this program. Your pathway may vary depending on your transfer plans and also previous college credit, including AP Test scores, concurrent enrollment courses and high school articulated courses.

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Program Description

The Certificate in Community and Organizational Leadership helps you to develop key interpersonal communication skills, leading effective teams, resolving conflict, and creating a positive learning organizational culture. The integration of these skills within the administration of justice system will result in more effective professional and community interactions, and provides you with the framework, skills, and knowledge to effectively lead and drive change, as well as to professionally advance in your chosen career. 


What can I do with this major?

This certificate will enhance resumes for students wishing to work in most fields and for those looking to professionally advance, including customer service positions, business environments, advocacy and non-profit work, and any position within the administration of justice field. 


Learning and Career Pathway
  • Law & Public Safety

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= Critical Course = Prerequisite for Other Courses = Prerequisite Required = Required for Major GE = General Education

Semester 1

9 units

ADMJ 50
Introduction to the Administration of Justice

3 units
This is an introductory course that examines the characteristics of the criminal justice system in the United States. The course covers the history, theory, and philosophy of administration of justice and the evolution of the principles, operational practices, and structure of the police, courts, and corrections agencies. Particular emphasis is placed on crime measurement, theoretical explanations of crime, and the challenges and opportunities for law enforcement in an increasingly diverse society. Students are introduced to the origins and development of criminal law, legal processes, and sentencing and incarceration policies.
Course Details:
Terms Offered: Spring, Summer, Fall

ADMJ 42
Leadership and Integrity

3 units
This course will examine the impact of leadership, effective communication and organizational integrity in establishing trust in the administration of justice system. Beginning with initial contact with citizens to adjudication and punishment, this course will analyze the challenges of the complex procedures and processes that impact the legal system and the lives of people. The course will emphasize the importance of ethical behavior and ethical leadership by individuals and organizations as a philosophy.
Terms Offered: Fall, Spring

Options Course #1

3 units
Take one Options course from the list below.
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Semester 2

9 units

ANTH 3
Social and Cultural Anthropology

3 units
How human beings in different cultures meet basic biological, social and cultural needs, including kinship and marriage practices, political and social organization, economic institutions, religious and childrearing practices, social change, as well as other aspects of cultural behavior. Emphasis on understanding other cultures on their own terms. Includes the many subcultures making up North American populations.
Course Details:
  1. Strongly Recommended: ENGL 1
    2. or
  2. Strongly Recommended: ENGL 1A

ADMJ 70
Community Relations

3 units
This course examines the complex, dynamic relationship between communities and the justice system in addressing crime and conflict with an emphasis on the challenges and prospects of administering justice within a diverse multicultural population. Topics covered may include crime prevention, restorative justice, conflict resolution, and ethics.
Terms Offered: Fall, Spring

Options Course #2

3 units
Take one Options course from the list below.
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Options Courses

Select 2 courses (6 units) from the following list of options:

ADMJ 41
Legal Persuasion and Argument

3 units
In this course, students will learn strategies for recognizing and evaluating the conflicting statements of others, including victims, lay witnesses, expert witnesses, and other professionals within the field of administration of justice. They will also learn how to gather, analyze and interpret statutory law, case law, data and other information. Upon completion of this course, students will also learn to think critically and independently and support their own written and oral persuasive arguments with facts, research and logic.
Course Details:
  1. Strongly Recommended: ADMJ 50
Terms Offered: Fall

COMM 1
Fundamentals of Speech Communication

3 units
Fundamentals of speech communication; emphasis on developing, stating, organizing, and researching ideas, and presenting to an audience; includes developing the faculties of critical listening and problem-solving.

COMM 10
Interpersonal Communication

3 units
Exploration, discussion, and evaluation of the components of verbal and non-verbal communication processes.

PSYC C1000
Introduction to Psychology

3 units
This course is an introduction to psychology, which is the study of the mind and behavior. Students focus on theories and concepts of biological, cognitive, developmental, environmental, social, and cultural influences; their applications; and their research foundations. Includes major psychological concepts and theories in the areas of consciousness, learning, memory, motivation, perception, personality, stress, and social behavior. Formerly PSY1.
Course Details:
  1. Strongly Recommended: ENGL C1000
  • Transfers to CSU

    • SOCI 1
    Principles of Sociology

    3 units
    Designed to illuminate the way students see their social world. Uses a sociological perspective: scientific study of human interaction and society, with emphasis on impact of groups on social behavior. Includes the systematic examination of culture, socialization, social organization, social class, race, gender, deviance, social change and empirical methodology. These content areas are woven throughout the fabric of the course, particularly as they affect the lives of at least three of the following groups: African Americans, Latino Americans, Asian Americans, Native Americans, Middle Eastern Americans and/or women.
    Total Units: 18 units
    This program map is not a guarantee of course availability or financial aid applicability.