Economic Crime

Bachelor of Science in Economic Crime Investigation Course Descriptions

Accounting

ACC 201 Financial Accounting (3 Credits)
Financial statement communication, information processing, measuring business income. Measurement and analysis of gross margin, short-term liquid assets, operating assets, short-term and long-term liabilities, cash flows.

ACC 202 Managerial Accounting (3 Credits)
Using accounting information for managerial decisions. Product costing, activity-based costing and activity-based management. Cost behavior and decision making, budgeting, capital investment decisions, performance evaluation, internal control, cash flow analysis. Prerequisite: Accounting 201

ACC 301 Intermediate Accounting I (3 Credits)
Accounting theory and financial statement disclosure requirements relating to current and long-lived assets. Compound interest concepts and their use. Prerequisites: Computer Science 117 and Accounting 202.

ACC 302 Intermediate Accounting II (4 Credits)
Continuation of Accounting 301. Liabilities and equities, accounting for income taxes, pensions, leases revenue recognition and statement of cash flows. Prerequisite: Accounting 301.

ACC 406 Forensic Accounting and Fraud Auditing (3 Credits) Integration of accounting, auditing and fraud investigative skills. Resolution of accounting "irregularities." Use of auditing case studies for analyzing documents and internal controls, tracing funds, examining business interruption losses and preserving and preparing evidence.
Prerequisite: Accounting 302.

Criminal Justice

CRJ 101 Introduction to Criminal Justice Research Methods (1 Credit)
Basic research/writing principles that should be applied to criminal justice as a field of study.

CRJ 103 Introduction to Criminal Justice (3 Credits)
History, theory and structure of the criminal justice system emphasizing substantive and procedural criminal law; police, prosecution, defense, courts, institutional and community corrections; juvenile justice subsystem.

CRJ 333  Information Security (3 Credits)
Protection of proprietary information in both the corporate and government sectors. Topics include: information as a resource, legal issues, policy formulation, administrative and technical remedies and case studies.

CRJ 334 Economic Crime Investigation (3 Credits)
White collar crime in the United States . Emphasizes investigatory techniques related to these types of crime.
Prerequisite: Criminal Justice 103 or equivalent.

CRJ 335 Cybercrime Law and Investigations (3 Credits)
Cybercrimes, including computer crimes, Internet fraud, e-commerce and threats to the national infrastructure. Policies, legal issues and investigative techniques and strategies and implications for investigation and enforcement on a global scale.

CRJ 343 Law of Economic Crime (3 Credits)
Government and judicial regulations of financial institutions, commercial entities, their agents and employees in relation to economic and business crime. Constitutional issues in investigations by governmental and corporate entities in both a substantive and procedural context.

CRJ 435 Computer Forensics (3 Credits)
Root methods, forensic tools and procedures used in analysis of digital evidence in computer hardware, software and peripherals. Rules applicable to extraction and preservation of data and digital evidence. Prerequisite: Computer Science 303.

CRJ 461 Senior Seminar (3 Credits)
Selected topics of current interest. Emphasizes critical analysis of current research literature and development of action projects by seminar members. Integrates previous learning as a capstone experience. Prerequisite: permission of instructor.

CRJ 470 Internship (6-15 Credits)
Participation on staff of criminal justice agency under co-supervision of Faculty and agency personnel. Field experience, periodic conferences and seminars, written and reading assignments designed to combine theory and professional practice. Prerequisite: permission of instructor.

Economics

ECN 131 Principles of Microeconomics (3 Credits)
Principles of economics with major emphasis on the theory of the market system (microeconomics), the economics of international trade and current economic problems.

ECN 241 Statistics (3 Credits)
Application of statistical methods in management and economics. Descriptive statistics, probability, normal curve, sampling, confidence intervals, hypothesis testing, correlation and regression. Prerequisites: Completion of mathematics and computer requirements in component one of core. Students may not also take for credit Psychology/Sociology 211 or Mathematics 112.

Computer Science

CSC 101 Computer Science I (3 Credits)
Overview of computer science. Introduction to algorithms, elementary data structures, program design and programming utilizing a block structured programming language.

CSC 102 Computer Science II (3 Credits)
Continuation of Computer Science 101. Introduction to pointers, linked lists, stacks, queues and trees. Introduction to sorting and searching algorithms. Prerequisite: Computer Science 101.

CSC 201 Discrete Mathematics I (3 Credits)
First course in abstract mathematical structures with emphasis on material needed for applications to computer science.  Introduction to different number systems, data types, computer arithmetic, Boolean algebra, direct and indirect proofs and mathematical induction.

CSC 303 Computer Organization and Programming (4 Credits)
Digital logic,micro-programming, machine and assembly language programming. Boolean logic and its relationship to actual circuits such as adders, multiplexers, dimultiplexers, shifters and flip-flops. Hypothetical computer is used to illustrate microprograms/interpreters. Prerequisites: Computer Science 101 and 201.

CSC 316 Object-Oriented Programming (3 Credits)
Introduction to the object-oriented paradigm of programming. Objects, classes and inheritance.
Prerequisite: Computer Science 101.

CSC 323 Introduction to Networks (3 Credits)
Topics include network types and communication models, hardware components, applications, protocols, standards, internetworking and routing concepts, OSI Model, TCP/IP, LAN and WAN networking technologies.
Corequisite: Computer Science 303.

CSC 432 - Computer and Network Security (4 Credits)
Fundamentals of securing computers and networks. Includes security objectives, threats, vulnerabilities, types of attacks, authentication methods, access control methods, encryption, intrusion detection, VPNs, firewalls and security as it relates to the world wide web. Prerequisites: Criminal Justice 333 and Computer Science 323.

Finance

FIN 333 Corporation Finance (3 Credits)
General principles of business finance as related to small or medium-sized corporation, pertinent phases of government regulation and effects of general business conditions on financial plans and operations. Promotion, methods of raising fixed capital, various types of securities, administration of income, expansion and financial difficulties. Prerequisites: Accounting 201, or permission of instructor.

Government

GOV 341 Jurisprudence of the Criminal Law (3 Credits) Criminal law as process for dispute settlement and maintenance of order by the state. Emphasis on legal reasoning, legal process and necessity to maintain historical continuity and doctrinal consistency.

MAT 112 Basic Statistics (3 Credits) For non-mathematics majors. Probability theory topics, binomial distribution, normal distribution, descriptive statistics, frequency distribution, measures of central tendency, hypothesis testing. Confidence intervals, correlation and prediction.
Prerequisite: completion of mathematics requirement in component one of core. Students may not also take for credit Psychology 211, Economics 241 or Sociology 211.

PSY 211 Statistics in the Behavioral Sciences (3 Credits) Application of statistical methods in psychological research. Descriptive statistics, tests of significance, correlation, simple analysis of variance, chi-square and some nonparametric methods. Students may not also take for credit Economics 241 or Mathematics 112.
Prerequisite: Core component I mathematics.

Sociology

SOC 211 Statistics in the Behavioral Sciences (3 Credits) Application of statistical methods in sociological research. Descriptive statistics, tests of significance, correlation, simple analysis of variance, chi-square and some non-parametric methods. Students may not also take for credit Economics 241 or Mathematics 112.

SOC 274 Criminology (3 Credits) Crime as a form of deviant behavior, its relation to social values and social structure, types of criminal behavior, theories of treatment and control, correctional methods and the administration of justice.

SOC 376 Criminological Research Methods (3 Credits) Emphasis on reading studies in scientific journals, understanding quantitative methods and their applications in crime study, hypothesis testing and policy evaluations. Computer applications in processing data and data analysis.
Prerequisites: Sociology 274 and Sociology/Psychology 211 or Mathematics 112.

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