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- This is a two year criminal justice
facilities degree.
The program has courses
that cover writing skills,
communication skills,
critical thinking skills.
We look at traffic law, criminal
law, constitutional law.
We ask the students to work through
what we try to create
as real life scenarios.
And so they get dispatched to a call
and they work it through,
they collect evidence,
they interview people, they have to decide
what they're gonna do with this call
and it could be something
where they have to contact
other community members
to try to solve a problem
or it could be something
that's on the enforcement side
where they have to actually
take somebody into custody.
Then they write their reports
and then we'll have them
testify in a mock court
as to what they did
throughout the whole process.
So we try to bring it all together.
- We're constantly given
scenarios and writing them out
and then we critique them.
We have a mock trial to see
how it would be cross examined
on the stand.
I have a juvenile law class right now.
I've already taken con
law and criminal law.
We also learn about correctional work
and probation, parole, stuff like that.
- I feel like CVTC offers a lot.
They give a lot of
opportunity for the K-9 unit
and also some other things
that we can participate in
and or see that relates to our field.
- Some people come in here
thinking I just wanna be a police officer
when there's so many more
occupations available
in the criminal justice field
but they aren't exposed to them unless
we bring those kind of people
in and talk about them.
People from our degree program
get hired as police officers.
A couple have gone to DNR.
I know two students now work
for the U.S. Border Patrol.
Some our students have
been hired as dispatchers
and jailers and sheriff deputies.
And Wisconsin State Patrol
has also hired several of our students.
A lot of our students also
have an interest in probation,
parole and working with kids.
- It's really nice to learn
straight from the source
and get kind of a feel of
what it's gonna be like
and if it's for you, so I'm kinda shifting
towards social working maybe.
So I kinda wanna work with juveniles
and make a difference
younger in someone's lives
rather than later on so it's really nice
to just have the teachers
who've worked in the fields
and just different resources.
- Because they're giving us
so many outside participation things
and through the Criminal
Justice Club that we're in,
we get to go and do these
volunteer opportunities
and what not and work together
alongside other law enforcement officers.
So it kinda gives us
a first eye experience
as to what we can expect.
- It's really nice to hear scenarios
and what they've gone
through in the fields
and relate it back to what
you're actually learning
in the classroom.
- The best thing is that
all of your teachers,
your instructors have experience
that they can relate to you
so for CVTC it really helps
in learning from someone who had done
what you might end up going into the field
and doing yourself.
- Why should you go to our
two year degree program?
Because of the strength of our faculty
but also the commitment
that the school has to
seeing this program through.
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