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The School of Public Affairs Executive Leadership Master of Criminal Justice (ELMCJ) degree prepares police executives for today's expanding, demanding roles. The ELMCJ option allows participants to gain and enhance the knowledge and skills necessary to manage change, solve problems, plan and act strategically, develop and challenge employees, foster and encourage innovation and trust, understand and support calculated risk taking, and establish and maintain organizations with a sound foundation in ethics and integrity. ELMCJ is a two-year, part-time cohort course of study. The ELMCJ brings together current and future police executives from throughout Colorado and the Rocky Mountain region. Each class will be structured to explore relevant leadership issues facing police both locally and nationally.
Why this program?
The ELMCJ degree prepares police executives for today’s expanding demanding roles. The evolving role and mission of law enforcement organizations today demand innovative leadership. Police executives must reshape departments internally while balancing progressive and conventional methods externally to establish collaborative partnerships and resolve community issues and concerns.
The ELMCJ has been designed to meet these needs
Program Requirements
The curriculum consists of 12 three-credit courses, the courses in the sequence they are offered is as follows:
- Fall 1st year
- CJ-5552, Ethics, Integrity & Leadership
- CJ-5320, Building Quality Organizations, Leading Organizational Change
- Intensive (between semesters)
- CJ-5510, Community Partnership Strategies
- Spring 1st year
- CJ-6600, Human Resource Management
- CJ-5576, Managing Information & Technology Systems & Research Methods
- Intensive (between semesters)
- CJ-5572, Managing Differences
- Fall 2nd year
- CJ-5110, Program Effectiveness and Evaluation
- CJ-6600, Strategic Planning & Anti-terrorism Strategies for Leaders
- Intensive (between semesters)
- CJ-5120, Crime Theories and Strategies
- Spring 2nd year
- CJ-5554, Case Studies in Leadership
- CJ-5000, Law and Legal Issues
- Intensive (final class)
- CJ-6600, Capstone Project class
What about after I graduate?
Graduates will be prepared to reshape their organizations to resolve community issues and concerns through a balance of progressive and conventional methods.
How does it work?
Each September a new cohort of up to 25 class members begins the program together. Each cohort is structured to represent a diversity of law enforcement agencies throughout the state.
Classes meet two Friday evenings and three Saturdays, from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., over a three-month period during each semester. One additional class will be held between each semester on two consecutive Fridays and three Saturdays.
Want more?
If you are interested in
receiving specific information on this program, please send an email to cj@cudenver.edu for more information or contact us using our
request more information form.