Peace Officer Education Program Cultural Competency & Diversity Learning Outcomes

Cultural competency and diversity learning outcomes for the Peace Officer Education program at Minnesota State Moorhead.

At the completion of your Peace Officer Education at Minnesota State Moorhead, you will:

• Become familiar with theories of race, ethnicity, class, and gender.
• Understand structures of domination and subordination.
• Understand the role of the police as first line responders to marginal and vulnerable populations.
• Understand the nature and significance of interpersonal and institutional prejudice and discrimination.
• Understand how race, ethnicity, gender, and social class influence our perceptions of criminality.
• Assess the value of contemporary criminal justice agency responses to homelessness, mental illness, autism, post-traumatic problems, and suicide.
• Understand homeless outreach, crisis response, status offenses, policing and mental illness, policing and autism, and de-escalation.
• Examine social behavior across a wide variety of historical periods and cultures.
• Understand how class, race, and other parameters of diversity such as gender, age, and ethnic heritage are connected with deviance and social control.
• Discuss key developments in police training that are influenced by social science research.
• Demonstrate knowledge of trends in policing and the political forces related to trends.
• Be able to critically analyze the policing different populations in the US.