El Cajon | San Diego Criminal Justice School

This criminal justice course provides an overview and introduction to criminal justice. Focus on the nature of crime, law and criminal justice, the police and law enforcement, the makeup of the courts, the adjudication system, the issues facing police, corrections.

This criminal justice course will cover the study of the power of arrest, relevant federal and California constitutional provisions applicable to a criminal defendant. ATA College students will be introduced to the structures of both the federal and state government including the court systems. Students will be introduced to various types of crimes, their element, and possible defenses. Relevant pre-trial procedures will be discussed. Theories for punishing criminal law violators will be explored and case briefing and IRAC concepts will be emphasized to students.

There will be a discussion of the Constitutional aspects of criminal procedure. The student will learn procedural aspects of the criminal system from arrest or summons through pretrial motions, trial, postconviction, and appellate processes. A study of the Constitution at work in the court system with current applications.

This criminal justice course explores research in the field of behavioral deviance. ATA College students will analyze case studies of various types of psychologic deviances and behaviors, focusing on casual explanations, police investigative strategies, and research-based recommendations for preventing and responding to these violent acts.

This criminal justice course focuses on the nature of evidence as it relates to the pretrial and trial process, including: witnesses, hearsay, admissions and confessions, and the exclusionary rule. Emphasis is placed on specific types of evidence: circumstantial, documentary, physical, documentary and recorded.

This criminal justice course presents an overview of the various classifications and characteristics of drugs and narcotics; as well as a comprehensive, contemporary, and interdisciplinary perspective on criminal sub-cultures in America.

This criminal justice course presents an introduction to the structure of the court system (federal, state, and local) in the United States. Topics include descriptions and jurisdictions of each type of court, key court personnel, selection process and working environments, and the judge’s unique role. Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to chart both state and federal court structure and explain the roles of court personnel.

ATA College students will learn and apply specialized techniques and approaches to interviews and interrogations as well as legal implications based on a variety of situations. Interviews and interrogation focuses on techniques and philosophies of conducting human communication in a criminal justice or legal environment in which the goal is to obtain accurate information. Obtaining eyewitness information in an investigative environment is also discussed.

This criminal justice course provides an overview of employment in the criminal justice field. Topics include nature of the work, social media impacts, employment opportunities, median income, training, opportunity for advancement, employment outlook for ten different general classifications.

Instruction on interviewing techniques and on-the-job career development; i.e., negotiating salary and job performance reviews. Instruction in resume development. Exercises will include creating a personal resume for the student to use in his/her job search.

The criminal justice course will cover the role of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), review the National Strategies for Homeland Security. Also, defined, reviewed, and discussed are terrorism, international terrorism, and the threats related with weapons of mass destruction. The course will review emergency preparedness and response to effectively attempt to mitigate the threats associated with an attack on the homeland.

ATA College students will gain the knowledge and skills needed to use a PM/EHR to create appointments, as well as to add provider breaks, create recall lists, and print providers’ schedules. This criminal justice course covers the skills needed to use a PM/EHR to check patient balances and create chart numbers and cases. Describes methods used to enter documentation in an EHR, including the use of dictation and transcription, voice recognition software, and templates. Students practice entering progress notes with and without the use of a template. The e-prescribing and electronic order entry features of an EHR are also presented. Introduction to the basics of coding, including ICD-9-CM and ICD-10-CM, CPT, and E/M, and explains both paper and electronic encounter forms. The student learns how to use an EHR to record a patient’s history, allergies, medications, vital signs, and chief complaint. Students also practice sending and receiving intraoffice messages and creating patient reminder letters.

Emphasizes total body fitness and focuses on aerobic activity and resistance training. Lecture and lab activities focus on cardiorespiratory endurance, muscular strength and endurance, safe activity principles, nutrition, and risk factors for disease.

This course emphasizes integration of skills and strategies for academic reading and writing, including comprehension, vocabulary, fluency and development, and the conventions of academic texts. ATA College students will be introduced to standard writing formats.

This course will focus on ethical issues and scenarios that relate directly to employees and their work environment. Students will develop a clearer sense of how, as a future employee, their corporate code of ethics will relate to operational decisions made daily. Focus will be placed on organizational ethics, corporate social responsibility, corporate governance, role of government, blowing the whistle, and ethics and technology

This course provides broad coverage of the field of psychology, introducing the basic concepts, theories, and applications that constitute the discipline. Topics covered include: sensation and perception, sleep and dreams, classical and operant conditioning, foundations of memory, motivation and emotion, nature and nurture, and personality.

This course introduces fundamental scientific concepts in Earth Science. Students will explore a broad spectrum of earth science topics from Earth’s position in the solar system to the delicate ecological
systems on Earth’s surface. Topics covered include: the scientific method, motions of earth, earth materials, plate tectonics, earthquakes, weathering, erosion, winds, atmosphere, weather, climate, oceans, and ecology and the environment.

This course covers basic mathematical topics in college math through everyday applications. The course first reviews fundamental math concepts such as whole numbers, fractions and mixed numbers, and decimals and then applies them to ratio, rate, proportion, and percent problems. Students will also be introduced to basic algebra concepts including simplifying, factoring, combining, and evaluating algebraic expressions.

This course provides an overview of current software packages used in the business environment. Students will learn to create, edit, print, and save effective documents using word processing software as well as the basics of creating a graphical slide show using presentation software. Instruction will include using software to create and edit spreadsheets with embedded charts and graphs. Real world application projects will test students’ skills in these applications.

This course presents a general overview of the history of the United States from pre-colonial times through the Reconstruction Era. It explores the cultural, political, geographical, economical, and technological changes that have shaped the United States as a nation. Through a chronological study of major events, people, and turning points in U.S. history, this course also provides tools for the critical thinking skills needed to interpret historical methods, points of view, and the meanings of events in historical contexts.