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Portfolio Development»Guidelines by Curriculum

CRJS395 Topics: Terrorism

The portfolio developed for this course should demonstrate the student's understanding of their relevant experience with policing and /or law enforcement agencies.

Experience Requirments
Minimum of five years documented relevant experience.

Expanded Resume
Description of relevant experience. Student should detail the formal positions held, kinds of experiences, activities and problems encountered in these positions.

List of Questions Student Has About Her/His Experience
These questions should draw on the student's "reflections" about their experience. (As Plato said "An Unexamined life is not worth living"). Questions should refer to problems, observations, experiences that the student wishes to understand. These should be described in detail along with the experiential contexts from which they were derived.

Documentation of Learning
Analysis of experience integrating readings and demonstrating understanding. This section should demonstrate an understanding of concepts, explanations, and analysis from related readings and how those help the student understand various questions and facets of their experience described in 2 and 3 above. Students should integrate related reading into the analysis of their experience. If students have not previously read books related to terrorism, they should read the following:

• Walter Laqueur, The New Terrorism: Fanaticism and the Arms of Mass Destruction. NY: Oxford University Press, 1999.
• John Kerry, The New War: The Web of Crime that Threatens America's Security. NY: Simon and Schuster, 1997.

10 Item Annotated Research Bibliography
This should include a review of academic research (not included in required readings below) related to the student's experiences. This must include:

• Bibliographic Citation
• Summary of the findings of the of the research
• Relationship of the research to the student's understanding of his / her experience.