Fayetteville State University
Department: Government and History
Program: Police Science
Course Descriptions
Course Descriptions
POSC 101 (3-3-0) Introduction to Law
Enforcement: A study of the philosophy and
history of law enforcement, including its legal
limitations in a democratic republic; a survey of
the primary duties and responsibilities of the
various law enforcement agencies; a delineation
of the basic processes of justice; an evaluation
of law enforcement’s current position; and an
orientation relative to law enforcement as a
vocation.
POSC 102 (3-3-0) Highway Traffic
Administration: An examination of the U.S.
transportation system, including a study of
complementary agencies that contribute to the
effectiveness of operations within the system
through the organization and administration of
traffic flow regulations, traffic laws, traffic
control, accident investigations, traffic courts,
and regular operational analyses, with additional
attention to the social, economic, and political
impacts of the transportation system, including
Course Objectives
Artifacts/Evidence
the complementary agencies in their
contributory roles.
POSC 111 (3-3-0) Criminal Law: A
presentation of the basic concepts of criminal
law and an evaluation of the merits of rules of
law and order in our system of government.
Students who have completed CRJC 300 may
not take this course.
POSC 210 (3-3-0) Criminal Investigation: An
introduction to the fundamentals of
investigation, including procedures and
techniques for conducting crime scene searches;
recording, collecting and preserving evidence;
identifying, using, and protecting sources of
information; conducting interviews and
interrogations; preparing cases and making
court presentations; and investigating specific
criminal offenses. Students who have completed
CRJC 210 may not take this course.
POSC 221 (3-3-0) Introduction to
Criminalistics: A general survey of the
methods and techniques used in modern
scientific investigations of crimes, with
emphasis on practical applications of
demonstrated laboratory techniques and the use
of available scientific equipment. Students who
have completed CRJC 221 may not take this
course.
POSC 230 (3-3-0) Criminal Evidence: POSC
230 (3-3-0) Criminal Evidence (CRJC 230); A
study of the kinds and degrees of evidence and
the rules governing the admissibility of
evidence in court. Students who have completed
CRJC 230 may not take this course.
POSC 232 (3-3-0) Police Organization and
Administration: An introduction to the
principles of police organization and
administration, with special attention to the
service functions; e.g., personnel management,
police management, training, communications,
records, property maintenance, and
miscellaneous services.
POSC 241 (3-3-0) Crime Scene Technology:
A review of processes governing the search for
physical evidence, with emphasis on the
location, reproduction, identification, collection,
and preservation of evidence, and of the
transportation of evidence to the crime
laboratory, with laboratory situations providing
practical experiences in applications of
techniques and procedures studied.
POSC 251 (3-3-0) Criminal Procedures: A
review of criminal procedures from incident to
final disposition and a survey of the principles
of constitutional, federal, state, and civil laws
relative to law enforcement.
POSC 262 (3-3-0) Police Community
Relations: A course in the development and use
of community relations programs to aid and
support the police, corrections programs, and
the criminal justice system as a whole in their
promotion of an orderly society. Students who
have completed CRJC 262 may not take this
course.
POSC 400 (3-3-0) Seminar in Criminal
Interrogation and Confessions: A study of
criminal interrogations and confessions,
including such aspects as warning the subject,
the Fourth Amendment Right of Privacy, the
attitude of the interrogator, the classification of
suspects for interrogation, tactics at
interrogations, the interrogation of witnesses
who may later become suspects, psychological
tools to be used in extracting a confession from
an unwilling suspect, procedures for reading
suspects their rights and for informing them of
those rights, the laws governing the
admissibility of confessions in court, the use of
trickery and deceit, and the latest laws- both
federal and state-regarding, confessions and
interrogations.
Prerequisite: POSC 101 Or CRJC 101 And
CRJC 300