Our interns report that they are already using some of this technology on their assignments. Curriculum Impact Computers and advanced technology will help stimulate critical thinking in several ways. In our forensic program, it would allow more accurate analysis of evidence and a more professional courtroom presentation. Our dispatch program will utilize realistic scenarios for training police and fire dispatchers. For the academies and the Security Management degree program, we can use simulations of actual case studies.
Some scenarios require an element of danger and risk.
Our forensic program is becoming more advanced technologically, but we need to continually assess and evaluate the variety of changes in technology to enhance our program. Since we have no computer lab, and only one crime lab, we must share resources with Business Office Technology and the Chemistry Department computer lab. Our ability to grow and include the changes outlined above are limited by the computer space, lab space and financing for such technology. We should develop an area for a computer lab dedicated to the Administration of Justice Program. It would be ideal to have all AOJ computer programs in one central lab so students could access it to complete assignments.