Courses
Semester 1
- Aboriginal Justice LAWS0085
Units/ Hours: 30
In this course students will identify and examine issues related to Aboriginal Justice in Canada. Specifically, students will focus on the relationship between the Canadian Justice system and Aboriginal Peoples. Historical and contemporary events will be examined to increase understanding of Aboriginal issues. Students will explore alternative justice, and other possible strategies to address the identified problems. Cultural practices and beliefs will also be discussed.
- College Communications for Law and Justice Professionals COMM0080
Units/ Hours: 37
This first semester course will introduce students to the essential communication skills required to be successful in their chosen post-secondary program. These skills include reading, writing, speaking, listening and critical thinking. Through a series of written assignments, in-class discussions based on readings, and lab activities, students will improve their overall communication skills. Students of COMM80 will engage in a series of activities and assignments designed to provide the essential language skills required for academic success.
- Intro to Political Science & Public Administration LAWS0043
Units/ Hours: 45
This course provides an introduction to the democratic system of governance in Canada. It includes a description of the organization, structure, interaction, and administration of the three (3) levels of government. The course will introduce and identify the daily problems and issues faced by Canadians in a political context, including public opinion and special interest groups. Major themes explored include a brief introduction to political beliefs and values, an examination of cleavages within the Canadian population, the Canadian constitution, nationalism, and political culture and spectrum. These concepts will be examined in the current forum of the daily politics that unfold during the course. Students will begin to develop research writing skills and group discussion skills. This course is a hybrid course comprised of webct and seminar components.
- Introduction to Canadian Justice System LAWS0044
Units/ Hours: 45
This course provides an introductory overview of the Canadian Justice System, with special emphasis on the criminal justice system and the responsibilities of enforcement personnel. Contemporary issues affecting the system will be analyzed and discussed.
- Introduction to Psychology SOCI0036
Units/ Hours: 45
This course offers a systematic approach to exploring human behaviour. The concepts and empirical findings are examined using a variety of theoretical approaches. Major topics include perception, motivation, learning, memory, intelligence, and personality.
- Introduction to Sociology SOCI0123
Units/ Hours: 45
Through this course, learn the special meanings that Sociology, as a language, assigns to words and how they are organized into concepts and theories. We use these words, concepts and theories to see and make sense of our social world and to talk with others about it, develop the ability to understand our social interactions, the society we create and recreate and how it affects us. Your success will depend very much on your ability in English, ability to send and receive e-mail, use a web browser, engage in discussions in bulletin boards, and other standard operations using a computer.
- Introductory Computing COMP0345
Units/ Hours: 45
Working in the Windows environment, this computer course introduces you to computer basics (computer terminology, e-mail, file management) and the application and use of word processing, spreadsheet, and presentation software using Microsoft Office. Through the extensive use of hands-on activities, you will gain sufficient knowledge and experience to make productive use of computers as a tool in both college and workplace environments.
Semester 2
- Communicating at Work for Law and Justice Professionals COMM0147
Units/ Hours: 45
Successful communicators use knowledge, skills and strategies to create effective messages for a range of audiences and contexts. This course emphasizes critical thinking and problem-solving to meet communication challenges in today's workplace. Students will refine workplace writing, communication skills and presentation techniques through a variety of assignments, assessments and hands-on practice.
- Community Policing and Community Service Agencies LAWS0250
Units/ Hours: 30
This course will allow students to apply and demonstrate crime prevention, problem oriented policing strategies and apply elements of volunteerism. Students will be able to assess a community problem and develop, implement and evaluate results to resolve a community problem. Students will also explore the relationship between community policing and police complaints. Students will be exposed to the mental and physical elements required to handle every day crisis. This course will also explore the community service agencies that operate within or in conjunction with the criminal justice system. The main emphasis will be on the working relationships between the agencies and the police services.
- Contemporary Social Issues LAWS0012
Units/ Hours: 30
This course will introduce and explore contemporary social issues using comprehensive social science paradigms and provocative examples. Critical inquiry will incorporate the social, political, historical and economic framework of various social problems as they are understood and experienced in Canadian society.Personal experiences will be associated with the broader cultural landscape. The course will provide students with current knowledge and skills that are practical in application and readily portable. Note: Demonstrated success in Sociology as a Second Language (SOCI 60) will assist you with the specialized vocabulary as will the text, Sociology In Our Times, 2nd Canadian Edition.
- Fitness and Lifestyle Management I RECR0003
Units/ Hours: 45
Society has come to recognize that physical fitness and wellness is essential to the enhanced quality of life. This course introduces the student to the concepts of physical fitness and provides the means to become fit and develop a healthy lifestyle. Students through practical experience will address the various components of fitness. The student will engage in an effective fitness program and develop strategies to be successful at the various police services fitness standards.
- Issues in Diversity SOCI0038
Units/ Hours: 45
In this course students will critically identify and examine issues in diversity. Specifically, students will focus on topics pertaining to inequality in various social settings, including but not limited to: race, gender, ethnicity, and sexual orientation. Incorporating social/legal explanations of diversity, students will develop a clear understanding of the impacted groups and possible strategies of community empowerment.
- General Education Elective
Course Number: GENED
All graduates of diploma programs require general education credits. These courses allow you to explore issues of societal concern by looking at the history, theory and contemporary applications of those issues.
Your program has designated some required general education courses. In addition, you have the opportunity to choose from a list of electives each semester.
Many of these courses and some other general education courses are also available through evening classes, by distance education, or on-line. See our Part-Time Studies Calendar for these opportunities.
You may already possess general education equivalencies from other colleges or universities. Please see the General Education Co-ordinators at the Peterborough and Lindsay locations for possible exemptions.
See this page for a list of approved General Education Courses at Fleming College.
Semester 3
- Civil Law LAWS0006
Units/ Hours: 45
This course will acquaint students with certain areas of civil law, with particular emphasis on those areas with which police officers have contact. Specifically, the course will provide an overview of the following topics: contracts, torts, human rights, residential tenancies, and family law.
- Conflict Management LAWS0009
Units/ Hours: 45
This course is designed to foster confidence and competence when dealing with people in crisis, where the potential exists for conflict. The processes of intervention and mediation require an understanding of the dynamics of all of the actors participating. It is also imperative that students understand that personal biases, attitudes, and comfort level with emotional reactions will determine perception and interpretation of a situation. These emotional reactions will be their own as well as those of the other actors in the situation.
Co-Requisites
- Fitness and Lifestyle Management II RECR0100
Units/ Hours: 45
Society has come to recognize that personal and collective wellness is essential to the enhanced quality of life. This course concentrates on the concepts of wellness and provides practical strategies for developing a healthy lifestyle. The student will develop strategies to develop and design and implement an effective personal fitness program and develop strategies to be successful at the Ontario Police Standards.
Pre-Requisites
- Interpersonal/Group Dynamics ORGB0012
Units/ Hours: 45
In this introductory level course, students learn to apply knowledge from interpersonal relations and group dynamics to working in a team. Emphasis will be placed on utilizing effective communication skills with individuals and groups. Group cohesiveness and effective group decision making will be discussed.
- Interviewing and Investigation LAWS0042
Units/ Hours: 45
This course focuses on interviewing and investigation skills. Students will develop interviewing skills and investigation skills. Students will develop interviewing skills necessary to retrieve information from incident participants including victims, witnesses and suspects. Students will also learn basic investigation skills including observation, analysis, evidence identification, collection and preservation, as well as note taking skills.
- Police Powers LAWS0064
Units/ Hours: 45
This course examines pertinent sections of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms and their impact on the Canadian criminal procedure. Citizen and police arrest and release authorities, police powers of search and seizure with and without a warrant, police discretion and its implications will be discussed. This course will enable students to become familiar with police terminology and apply the procedures required to affect arrest and release.
Semester 4
- Criminology LAWS0018
Units/ Hours: 45
Our concern about crime and frustration over criminals are major issues that command our attention. Criminology is a multidisciplinary field that helps us understand and take action. Historically, it has offered many explanations that have influenced our reactions to and social policy toward crime and criminals. This course will consist of three main parts: definitions and measurement of crime, theories of crime, crime and society.
- Evidence and Investigation LAWS0030
Units/ Hours: 45
Collection and presentation of evidence is an important part of the litigation process.In this course, learners will examine the use of evidence in court cases, including statutory and common-law limits on the use of various forms of information that could affect the decision-making process of Canadian courts and administrative tribunals. Learners will examine the functions of investigators, advocates, judges, and juries in the presentation and processing of evidence.
Pre-Requisites
- Federal/Provincial Statutes LAWS0032
Units/ Hours: 45
In this course, students will interpret and apply Federal and Provincial Statutes. They will interpret elements of offences related to the statutes. Federal statutes examined will be the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act. Provincial statutes examined will be: the Provincial Offences Act, the Mental Health Act, the Liquor License Act, the Coroners Act, the Trespass to Property Act, the Residential Tenacies Act, the Child and Family Services Act, and the Blind Persons Rights Act.
- Field Placement FLPL0029
Units/ Hours: 105
Field placement is approximately 100 hours at the completion of the fourth semester that will present the student with the opportunity to put into practice the skills and theory learned in the classroom and observe police related assignment duties. Students must pass a three panel interview for Field Placement.
- Field Placement Preparation FLPL0045
Units/ Hours: 15
Field placement is approximately 100 hours at the completion of the fourth semester that will present the student with the opportunity to put into practice the skills and theory learned in the classroom and observe police related assignment duties.Pre-requisites: Successful completion of all Police Foundations academic courses. Students must pass a 3 panel interview for Field Placement.
Co-Requisites
- Fitness and Lifestyle Management III RECR0009
Units/ Hours: 30
Society has come to recognize that personal and collective wellness is essential to the enhanced quality of life. This course concentrates on the concepts of wellness and provides practical strategies for developing a healthy lifestyle. The student will develop strategies to develop and design and implement an effective personal fitness program and develop strategies to be successful at the Ontario Police Standards.
Pre-Requisites
- Principles of Ethical Reasoning SOCI0050
Units/ Hours: 45
This course focuses on ethical issues faced by individuals as citizens and professionals. It will help students to clarify their values and establish a framework for ethical decision making. Ethical issues that relate to a wide variety of concerns will be examined. Students will also examine a variety of professional ethical codes and apply ethical decision-making models to dilemmas in their personal and professional lives.
- Youth in Conflict with the Law LAWS0083
Units/ Hours: 30
In light of the Young Offenders Act (1982) and other relevant statutes, this course provides historical, philosophical, and contemporary applications affecting youth in conflict with the law. The course examines and analyzes the aspects of prevention, detention, interviewing, court processes, and disposition alternatives that may be used to aid and rehabilitate young offenders while facilitating public safety and victim response. Fleming Equivalent to LAWS083 (B. Cowie Jan 2011)