The Public Safety and Criminal Justice program is designed to complement the existing skills of an individual to include general knowledge, human relations, and development skills, communication skills, principles of justice, and the application of organizational and leadership principles required to successfully work in today’s organizations providing public safety and law enforcement services. This program integrates courses in human relations, criminal justice, organization, communication, and leadership to provide the student with the background necessary to be upwardly mobile within the organizational structures of public safety agencies, community non-profit organizations, and church organizations. This includes skills required to work with police officers and police chaplains working in the community as well as in juvenile or adult detention centers, and in private organizations providing related public safety and law enforcement services. This program also serves as a foundation for graduate-level degrees in Leadership and Management, Pastoral Counseling, Ministerial Leadership, Professional Counseling, and Marriage and Family Therapy degrees offered by Amridge University.

Upon completion of the Bachelor of Science in Public Safety and Criminal Justice Program, the graduate will have:

1. Gained knowledge of the jurisprudence system required to effectively function in the role of prison ministry;
2. Gained knowledge of the jurisprudence system required to effectively function in the role of chaplain for law enforcement agencies;
3. Acquired skills and knowledge in general education areas that are foundation to life skills and further education;
4. Gained basic knowledge of management principles and supervision;
5. Developed a basic understanding of the criminal justice system; and
6. Developed basic skills in communicating in professional settings.