Course Description: Writing stories or selling and designing ads for The Collegian newspaper and the Dragon's Tale magazine.
Spring
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 1.00
Course Description: Continuation of JL205. Application of the principles of magazine production in the completion of Issue 2.
Spring
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 2.00
Course Description: Serve as a student editor or ad manager with advanced techniques for successful publication of the college newspaper or magazine.
Spring
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 1.00
Section Notes: Directed study in publication management.Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 1.00
Section Notes: Directed study in publication management.
Course Description: Beginning work experience through a partnership with industry from journalism and/or graphic arts technology fields.
Spring
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 2.00
Section Notes: Prior journalism or graphic arts technology experience is recommended. At least 45 clock hours required for each credit hour enrolled.
Course Description: Introduction to photographic principles through the use of digital cameras and equipment. Practice assignments in exposure, composition and post processing of photographic files.
Spring
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3.00
Course Description: Explore fundamental techniques and use of basic tools in Adobe Photoshop. Acquire, enhance, and manipulate images for use in print or digital media.
Spring
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3.00
Course Description: Techniques in digital imagery using Adobe Photoshop to manipulate images for print and digital media while expanding the use of tools within the software program.
Course Notes: AR134 Introduction to Digital Imagery, or JP118 Introduction to Digital Imagery.
Spring
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3.00
Course Description: On the job experiences under the supervision of the program coordinator. A laboratory class held at selected training locations with the approval of the program coordinator.
Spring
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3.00
Section Notes: Obtaining an internship is the responsibility of the student and consists of supervised work experience at an approved training site. The student must complete 225 hours of work.
Course Description: Emphasis on role of paralegals in the practice of law, including types of paralegals, education and licensure employment requirements, professional ethics standards, practice of law authorization, and work tasks such as preparation and use of legal briefs, memorandums, and documents used in a law office.
Spring
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3.00
Section Notes: Course is 8 weeks in length, with assignments required from multiple chapters each week.
Course Description: Role of lawyers and legal assistants as counselors with an emphasis on the general legal concepts associated with premarital agreements, marriage, annulment, separation agreements, divorce, child custody, child support, the legal rights of women and children, paternity, adoption, surrogacy and applicable torts.
Spring
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3.00
Section Notes: Course is 8 weeks in length, with assignments required from multiple chapters each week.
Course Description: Law of intestate successions, wills, trusts and future interests, with emphasis on the administration of estates under Kansas Law, including preparation of wills, trust instruments and other documents related to the probate process.
Spring
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3.00
Section Notes: Course is 8 weeks in length, with assignments required from multiple chapters each week.
Course Description: Overview of the history of labor laws and employment law oriented to paralegals. Topics include the Civil Rights of 1964, race, sex, age, disability and religious discrimination.
Spring
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3.00
Section Notes: Course is 8 weeks in length, with assignments required from multiple chapters each week.
Course Description: Introduction to legal research and writing, overview of the law and how to research, simple legal research problems in case law and statutory exercises, citation form, appropriate research instruments including Westlaw and Shepard''s Citations.
Spring
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3.00
Section Notes: Course is 8 weeks in length, with assignments required from multiple chapters each week.
Course Description: Personal injury law, including review of intentional torts (e.g., assault, battery, false imprisonment), negligence and strict liability (e.g., products liability) and other tortuous conduct.
Spring
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3.00
Section Notes: Course is 8 weeks in length, with assignments required from multiple chapters each week.
Course Description: The College Learning Methods course emphasizes active learning practices in which students learn personal management skills, learning process, and classroom activities and behaviors designed to enhance learning and academic success.
Spring
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 2.00
Course Description: The historical development and the internal and external issues of the various components of the criminal justice system including police, corrections and the courts and how these interrelated components result in the administration of justice today.
Spring
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3.00
Course Description: Practical analysis of modern administration theory and supervisory, management principles and their application to the unique operating problems of criminal justice organizations.
Spring
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3.00
Course Description: The role of police in society and the application of key concepts to policing scenarios; identification, discussion and assessment of critical police practices and processes to include deployment, arrest procedures, search strategies and other operational considerations.
Spring
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3.00
Course Description: Exploration of the four pillars of personal wellness: physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual. Development of self-care tools needed with emphasis on changes a person experiences and unique stress of a law enforcement career.
Spring
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 1.00
Section Notes: Police Science-Law Enforcement or Criminal Justice Administration major or consent of program coordinator.
Course Description: Basic court system procedures and the jurisdiction of the courts; constitutional and other legal requirements that affect law enforcement practices and procedures; confessions and interrogations, identification procedures, arrest, search and seizure, and admissibility of evidence.
Spring
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3.00