CJBA 401 Agency Analysis: Connecting Practice to Research

3 hours 

This course provides students with sufficient knowledge and skills to conduct an agency analysis of their internship site in CJBA 400: Criminal Justice Internship Experience I, and to inspire the students to improve the quality of criminal justice programs, policies, initiatives, and activities. The course covers the fundamentals of evaluation research and the range of available evaluation approaches. It also assesses how sound evaluations results can be used to inform policy and program design.