2025-2026 Course List

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Selected studies in the properties and design on concrete mixtures, cement chemistry, concrete durability, specialty concretes, conrete construction, admixtures, and quality control.

Analysis of open channel flow systems. Includes natural channels, designed channels, flow transitions, steady flow, unsteady flow, uniform flow, and non-uniform flow.

Analysis and design of water regulation structures. Includes dams, spillways, gates, dikes, levees, stilling basins, water distribution systems, and various simplier structures. Environmental impacts of hydraulic structures are discussed throughout the course.

Application of fluid mechanics and hyrology to the design of storm water management facilities.

Performance and design of rigid, flexible, and composite pavement structures with emphasis on modern pavement design procedures. Principles of pavement maintenance and rehabilitation, and pavement management systems. Materials characterization, tests, quality control, and life cycle cost analysis.

Design and construction of traditional embankments, including slope stability analysis; earth and rockfill dams, including introduction to seepage analysis; excavations, earth retaining structures, and other geotechnical structures. Geotechnical software application in analysis and design.

Introduces the classification and design process of highways; development and use of design controls, criteria and highway design elements design of vertical and horizontal alignment, and establishment of sight distances design of cross-sections, intersections, and interchanges.

Development and design of airport facilities and the integration of multiple disciplines including runway orientation and capacity, terminal facilities, forecasting, planning, noise, airspace utilization, parking, lighting, and construction.

Overview of municipal water and wastewater treatment and distribution practices. Application of chemical, biological and physical principles to design and operation of water and wastewater treatment and distribution systems.

This course will be taught as a web-based, mixed synchronous-asynchronous format course with a combination of lecture, individual and group projects, reading, homework, discussion, review, and examinations. The goal of the course is to develop competency in the design and construction of solid waste landfills, composting facilities and hazardous remediation, with understanding of both performance and cost implications to all choices.

This class will provide students pursuing a certificate in Global Solutions in Engineering and Technology with an opportunity to explore a set of topics related to achieving success either in advance of or following an international experience (internship, study abroad, etc.). Speakers will include faculty, graduate students, visiting researchers and industry members as well as student participants. Returning students will be required to participate in mentoring of students preparing for their international experience and provide written and/or oral presentations of various topics during the semester. This course is to be required either before or after participation in the international experience.

Examines the making of criminal law, the evolution of policing, the adjudication of persons accused of criminal law violations, and the punishment of adult offenders.

Learn about state and federal court systems, judge selection, and how the law is derived from court decisions to understand contemporary and historical issues as an informed citizen.

This course requires students to complete 50 hours of volunteering at a community agency to gain experience and learn how the agency and its staff perform their objectives. The course also requires students to practice their writing skills in assignments designed for reflection on personal strengths and interests, career pursuits, and résumé writing. Class discussions emphasize professional development, ethics, and various issues relevant to criminal justice and corrections. Corrections majors should take this course as early as possible.

This course will introduce students to the numerous agencies and organizations that make up the criminal justice system and its components. A primary goal for this course is to help students prepare for, as well as succeed in, a criminal justice system career.

The foundational tenets of peacekeeping are based on building relations between peace officers and the communities they serve. The student will be introduced to the value of positive interactions between peace officers and the populations they serve, as well as how negative interactions can impact public perception, funding, and trust. Students will also learn ways to incorporate problem-solving strategies and critical analysis on both micro and macro levels to address community and peacekeeping concerns.

Addresses the justifications and the historical development of punishment, the legal and policy issues concerning capital punishment, and the use of incarceration as a response to crime.

The history, development, and application of criminal laws and criminal procedures in the criminal justice system.

An extensive study of the rules, statutes, criminal laws, and traffic laws that directly relate to the role of a peace officer in the State of Minnesota.

The history, legal aspects of investigation, the evolution of investigations and forensics, procedures of crime investigations, procurement and preservation of evidence and interviewing.

This course will introduce students to theoretical concepts in sociology, social psychology, psychology, and criminology pertaining to human behavior. Students will gain an understanding of how individual and societal factors influence the behaviors of the people they serve, as well as how those same factors influence the peace officer personality. Students will also be introduced to many of the mental disorders they will encounter in the field so that they may more easily identify those in crisis when in the field and determine the most appropriate course of action to assist them.

A critical consideration of definitions of juvenile delinquency, emphasis on micro and macro level of struggle in which delinquent behavior takes place, critique of current theories on delinquency, and the juvenile justice response to delinquency from a criminal justice lens.

Policing patrol practicals covers the types and methods of patrol and factors involved in one's perception and observation of others. This course includes knowledge and skills to preserve the peace of the community they are going to serve. This course is part of the Policing Skills Certificate and requires approval for registration.

Firearms covers the use of deadly force, firearms safety, care and cleaning of service weapons, and firearms shooting principles. The course focuses on students' decision making ability and firearms shooting ability. This course is part of the Policing Skills Certificate and permission is required to register for this course.