• Kurt Siedschlaw, Interim Criminal Justice Program Director
• Professors: J. Carlson, Gilbert, Siedschlaw
• Associate Professor: Wiersma
• Assistant Professors: Campbell, Lively

Department Objectives:

Criminal Justice

• To provide a broad academic and multidisciplinary background for students majoring in Criminal Justice;
• To prepare students of high character and ethical standards for leadership positions within the employment areas of law enforcement, corrections, probation, parole, private security, and the courts;
• To assist students in gaining employment within criminal justice and related career fields;
• To cultivate in students a realistic awareness of present and historical trends of crime and criminal methodology;
• To stimulate an awareness of deviant and abnormal human behavior of concern to criminal justice practitioners;
• To acquaint students with current literature and research pertaining to the administration of justice.

Criminal Justice General Information:
At least 15 hours (5 courses) of upper division credit in criminal justice must be taken from UNK.

• Sandy K. Cook-Fong, Social Work Program Director
• Professor: Younes
  Associate Professor: Cook-Fong
  Assistant Professor: Van Laningham
  Senior Lecturer: Panter

The Social Work Program is accredited at the baccalaureate level by the Council on Social Work Education (CSWE).

Department Objectives:

Social Work

1. Apply critical thinking skills to generalist social work practice.
2. Support and uphold professional standards, values, and ethics.
3. Employ generalist practice skills in a way that is sensitive to diverse, oppressed, and at-risk populations.
4. Demonstrate the professional use of self.
5. Understand the forms and mechanisms of oppression and the strategies of change that advance social work and economic justice.
6. Understand the history of the social work profession and its current structures and issues.
7. Utilize a strengths perspective; employ a planned change approach that reflects assessment, goals, alternative strategies that lead to effective intervention on individual, group, environmental, and societal levels.
8. Assist and empower people to develop and use problem solving, coping, and networking capacities.
9. Apply knowledge of bio-psycho-social variables that affect individual development and behavior.
10. Identify and assess interactions of people within their social environment.
11. Analyze the impact of social policies on client systems, workers, and agencies.
12. Evaluate the extent to which the objectives of planned change efforts are achieved.
13. Evaluate research studies and apply findings to practice.
14. Use communication skills differentially with a variety of client.
15. Under supervision, function within the structure of organizations and service delivery systems and seek necessary organizational change.
16. Link people with and assist in the development of resources, services, and opportunities.

The Social Work Program is accredited at the baccalaureate level by the Council on Social Work Education (CSWE).

The Department does not grant academic credit for life experience or previous work experience.