UNDERGRADUATE ACADEMIC STUDIES (FIRST CYCLE) SECURITY AND CRIMINOLOGY 2020/21

UNDERGRADUATE ACADEMIC STUDIES (FIRST CYCLE) SECURITY AND CRIMINOLOGY – 240 ECTS

Purpose and Objectives:

The Faculty of Security Sciences provides education for future members of police and security agencies in the Republic of Srpska and Bosnia and Herzegovina, as well as for the civilian sector (public enterprises and institutions) and the private sector (detective agencies). The education is conducted in accordance with modern study programs, aligned with the Bologna educational and scientific system.

The purpose of the study program is to clearly define opportunities for further professional development and for following scientific achievements in the fields of security, defense, and protection. All this serves to create a high-quality scientific-educational profile capable of performing security tasks in the broadest sense of the word. This study program is designed in line with the latest achievements in security, criminology, legal, and general educational sciences, modern security practices, and study programs of universities and faculties in the region and the world, as well as the needs of our society.

The primary objective of the proposed study program is to develop critical, analytical, interdisciplinary, and creative thinking, as well as the ability for independent reasoning, concluding, and presenting facts and findings in the fields of security and criminology.

Furthermore, the objective is the theoretical and practical training of students for all types of tasks performed in security agencies, as well as in other institutions that require specialists in the fields of security and criminology.