Jacksonville State University - Mimosa Yearbook (Jacksonville, AL)

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I 1 Law enforcement— a public interest The College of Criminal Justice is demanding and challenging, yet rewarding. It offers a Bachelor of Science degree in law enforcement, corrections, and forensic science taught by professors with many years experience in their respective fields. Criminal Justice students gain much knowledge from the experienced professors, class material, and internships required by all who enroll. Dean Barker is especially proud of the course. Executive Protection, 462, which will enable students to deal with dignitaries who are threatened during their public life. The course is a practical and in-depth examination of the fundamentals of personal protection for high-visibility, controversial, or threatened persons including movement formations. Route Reconnoisance, and the like. In addition to internships, students may elect independent study and advanced seminars in which they do serious research, conduct their own surveys and make mature, realistic judgments. A glance at course descriptions in the catalog reveals emphasis on human relationships, state and local government, and scientific and technological evaluation so that students are prepared for work. ia ™ - f ewW+.t -p t. j . , l -III • . ’ . e. er '--T 1 I I. • tAUv d I 5, 11 VidLn £ ef ' « l („y,|4 . 22

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 Suzanne Carpenter Although academics is perhaps the most veriooked section of the Mimosa, it remains important. Sports events and fraternity sorority mixers are more fun, but the main reason JSU exists is to impart knowledge. Knowledge and experience are the foundations in the academic world. Years of training and practice enable professors and instructors to share experience with students, much like the professional circus performers, passing on the knowledge of the big top to the rookies. Nine colleges make up the university and offer several hundred majors and minors. The professors and instructors help the students enrolled in one of the nine colleges making up the university, by training them to excel in their own chosen field. Like the older and wiser of the clowns that teach the young inexperienced ones, the teochers are able to relate their knowledge to the students who are eager to learn. With the future depending on good training and education for the achievement of success, it is important that the education of young adults extend into succeeding generations, as is also true in the world of a circus. As in any job, one must be trained well and perform well: members of the circus must have their acts perfected in order for the feat to be a success. It is the fierceness of competition that makes the students of Jacksonville 5tate University fight for success in all areas of academics. It is apparent that the academic section should not be overlooked, but rother appreciated- This section covers the academic attitudes of 1985—the people, the different colleges, the pride that sets us opart.

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College of Criminal Justice features its three majors