# Law Enforcement-Community Policing (Certificate of Achievement)

Napa Valley College · 2026-2027 Catalog · Department: Administration of Justice

Source: https://catalog.napavalley.edu/areas-of-study/administration-of-justice/law-enforcement-community-policing-coa/

This certificate provides students with a concentrated study of community policing, procedural justice and a variety of cultural communities served by law enforcement in the region.

##### Program Learning Outcomes

1.  Describe the history, structure, and functions of the main components of the American criminal justice system. 
2.  Produce written communications that meet the standards for transfer and a criminal justice system professional. 
3.  Examine critically contemporary problems and issues within criminal justice. 
4.  Examine bias and cultural competence in the criminal justice system.

**Certificate Requirements**

| Course | Title | Units |
| --- | --- | --- |
| **Required Core Courses (6 units)** | |  |
| ADMJ-120 | Introduction to the Criminal Justice System | 3 |
| ADMJ-123 | Introduction to Community Policing | 3 |
| **Required Electives (9 units)** | |  |
| **Complete three courses from the following:** | | 9 |
| ↳ LGBT-120 | Introduction to LGBT Studies in the Family, Education and Community |  |
| ↳ ETHS-112 | African American Studies |  |
| ↳ ETHS-113 | Chicanx Studies Chicanx Studies |  |
| ↳ ETHS-160 | Critical Asian Pacific Islander American Studies: Filipina/X/O Experience in the United States |  |
| **Total Units** | | **15** |