Minimum Requirements for Undergraduate Admission
Graduation from an accredited high school or equivalent, or graduation from an accredited associates degree program, or currently attending an accredited undergraduate associates/bachelors degree program.
For freshman applicants, GPA 2.25. For transfer applicants, GPA 2.0
Satisfactory TOEFL score (500 PBT/61 iBT) or IELTS score 5 or iTEP score of 3.4
*Applicants who are unable to meet the language proficiency standards or who do not have proof of proficiency can receive a Conditional Acceptance, and attend our English as a Second Language program, which is our on campus English language institute.
The Backbone Of The American Justice System
As a Tiffin University graduate with a major in Corrections, you will be part of the backbone of the American Justice System. The Bachelor of Criminal Justice (BCJ) Corrections major is designed for students who are interested in understanding and working with criminal offenders. Through this major, you will be equipped to handle the dynamic nature of the largest facet of the criminal justice system. The program focuses on the relationship of the field of corrections to the broader criminal justice system, as well as the evaluation and treatment of offenders in community supervision, custodial and community-based facilities
A Strong Academic Foundation
The major is structured to give our students sufficient background in legal issues, management, history, social work and counseling that effectively augment the knowledge and skills they develop in the criminal justice core curriculum. A strong emphasis is placed on providing the latest perspectives on offender reentry, population management strategies, offender motivation, theory and policy that will provide you with the requisite educational foundation to effect positive outcomes in offender management.
Our Faculty: Working Professionals With Real-World Experience
Our Corrections program offers students the unique opportunity to interact with working professionals from the field. Our faculty come from the correctional environment and bring to the classroom their professional practice experiences from working in prisons, jails, parole, court security, counseling, and international field work.
Our faculty’s professional practice experience offers you, the student, an innovative blend of theory and practice that is crucial for effective professional education. In addition, our faculty take you into the field and let you explore the correctional environment first-hand, which allows you to gain a better understanding of the classroom instruction.
Ohio Police Officer Training Academy (OPOTA)
To be a sworn police officer in Ohio, you must successfully complete the Ohio Police Officer Training Academy (OPOTA). Tiffin University partners with Terra State Community College to include the cost of the academy in tuition and can be earned in just one semester.
This unique training academy is state mandated for all police officers and covers firearms, legal administration, human relations, traffic, patrol, driving, subject control, investigations, civil disorder, physical conditioning and other aspects of law enforcement. Students apply direct, hands-on practice in the crime lab, firing range and police cruisers. With experienced, certified instructors and hands-on application, our students consistently achieve passing rates on the state-certified exam.
Once graduates of the program earn the certification, they are immediately eligible for full-time employment.
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Core Curriculum of the School of Criminal Justice 18 hours
Corrections Major 42 hours
COR120 Correctional Thought and Practice
COR231 Juvenile Justice Systems
COR245 Probation, Parole, and Community Corrections
COR336 Constitutional Rights of Prisoners
COR420 Agency Management
ENF293 Criminology
FOR105 Victimology
FOR344 Psychology of Violence and Aggression
FOR423 Case Management
FOR430 Crisis Intervention Strategies
FOR347 Sex Crimes
FOR365 Drugs and Society
PSY101 Introduction to Psychology
PSY362 Abnormal Behavior
Total Bachelor of Criminal Justice hours 121
Adult / Juvenile Probation
Corrections
Highway Patrol Officer
Corporate Security
County Sheriff’s Deputy
Criminal Investigator / Detective
Fraud Investigator
Intelligence Analyst
Parole Officer
Police Officer / Program Administrator
Prosecutor’s Office Investigator
Special Agent