PROGRAMS ARE
GAINING IN
POPULARITY .. AND
THE PROGRAM OVER
AT A&M CORPUS
CHRISTI HAS
EXPANDED.
DOUBLE BOX
SUNRISE REPORTER
ROLAND RODRIGUEZ
JOINS US LIVE FROM
THE ISLAND
UNIVERSITY. TELL
US MORE ABOUT
THEIR PROGRAM AND
WHY STUDENTS ARE
TAKING THAT PATH.
LIVE REM FULL
ROLAND
THE GAIN IN
POPULARITY COULD
BE THE FACT THAT
MILLIONS OF PEOPLE
AROUND THE WORLD
ARE FASCINATED
WITH CRIME DRAMA
TELEVISION
PROGRAMS. BUT IN
THE REAL
WORLD...IT'S
UNLIKELY YOU'LL
SOLVE A CRIME IN
JUST 60-MINUTES.
HOWEVER, IF YOU
HAVE A DESIRE TO
WORK IN THE
FIELD...THE
OPPORTUNITIES ARE
ENDLESS.
PKG
ROLAND
Twenty years ago,
when Texas A&M
University-Corpus
Christi started its
criminal justice
program, there were
only 3 professors and
about 30 students.
Today it has 7
professors and more
than 400 students.
(ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF
CRIMINAL JUSTICE DR. WENDI
POLLOCK)
"That means we are
giving our students a
core of criminal justice
that they need to
know. It is a little bit
about why people do
what they do, a little
introduction to the
system, how it works
and doesnt work.
Then after that we can
customize and our
students can take
courses in what they
are really interested
in," said assistant
professor of criminal
justice Dr. Wendi
Pollock. A criminal
justice degree can
both prepare you, and
set you apart from the
pack. The instructors
in the criminal justice
programs at the
University have vast
real-world expertise
which ensures
classroom experience
isn't just based on
theory. "Our
requirements here are
that we do about 40
percent of time in the
classroom, and about
40 percent of our time
in the field. So a lot of
us are out researching
the very stuff we are
teaching in the
classroom,"said
Pollock. Despite
common
misconceptions
(due in part to the popularity
of
television series like "CSI" or
"Law
& Order")
, careers in criminal
justice involve much
more than policing o
crime scene
investigations. "In
fact, we teach an
entire class on crime
in the media, and we
focus on how the
media portrays the
players, criminals,
crime events, and we
compare all of that to
the reality,"said
Pollock. And when it
comes to finding a job
within the criminal
justice field, the door
is wide open. "It use
to be you have to be a
cop, you have to be
an attorney or you are
going to go work for a
prison system. Now
we got all kinds of
things; we have victim
advocates, we have
people that cross over
with psychology and
work with offenders,
people that work with
victims, people that
work with families of
victims, there all kinds
of programs out
there,"said Pollock.
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ROLAND
WE'VE GOT
INFORMATION ON
THE CRIMINAL
JUSTICE PROGRAM
POSTED ON OUR
WEBSITE...KRISTV.CO
M. REPORTING LIVE
FROM THE ISLAND
UNIVERSITY...ROLAN
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