West Haven, Conn., June 18, 2007 - Global terrorism has upped the ante for educating international security agents according to Dr. James Monahan, who has taught criminal justice-and developed scores of well-schooled cops and investigators in the process-for nine years. Monahan says the time has come to train what he terms as "renaissance agents." This summer he is recruiting first-year students for a new global justice and security concentration he developed at the University of New Haven, the largest criminal justice degree program in the United States.
Monahan is the former director of psychology at the Connecticut Children's Medical Center in Hartford and has been chair of the Psychology Board of Examiners for Connecticut since 1991. He is also a former marine, and, at times, it still shows. "We're going to teach these kids about arson, U.S. foreign policy, and what to do when a car bomb explodes," he says. "In the meantime, we'll steep them in foreign languages-including Arabic and Russian-and culture, and produce some of the best federal security agents in the country."
The Global Justice and Security Concentration is designed to attract the growing population of students interested in serving with federal security agencies, in either embassy security or national and international investigations. The rigorous program includes a minimum of two semesters of foreign language study, criminal justice and social science courses, advanced Internet and computer crime skills and a required semester of study abroad.
A leader in experiential learning, the University of New Haven provides its students with a unique combination of solid liberal arts and real-world, hands-on professional training. A private University founded in 1920, UNH has a full-time undergraduate enrollment of more than 2,400 students-with 70 percent residing on its 80-acre main campus-and a graduate school enrollment that exceeds 1,700. The University offers more than 80 undergraduate degrees and more than 25 graduate degrees through its four colleges, in fields such as sports management, nutrition and dietetics, forensic science, music and sound recording, engineering, computer science, fire science and criminal justice. University of New Haven students study abroad through a variety of distinctive programs
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