This diploma provides you with the skills and knowledge necessary for a career within corrections. Correctional Studies graduates are currently in high demand across the province.
This is a two-year (four-term) diploma program with an optional non-credit fifth term (field work placement).

Potential careers in correctional studies:

• Professions
• Correctional peace officer
• Correctional service worker
• Probation officer
• Community corrections officer
• Sheriff
• Reintegration worker
• Remand/attendance centre worker

Transferability:

Graduates of this program may be granted credits towards block transfer to:

• Athabasca University – Bachelor of Professional Arts Degree
• Griffith University – Bachelor of Criminology and Criminal Justice
• Justice Institute of British Columbia – Bachelor of Law Enforcement Studies
• Lethbridge College – Bachelor of Applied Arts in Justice Studies
• Royal Roads University – Bachelor of Arts in Justice Studies
• University of Gloucestershire – Bachelor of Science in Criminology and Bachelor of Arts in Sociology

College of the Rockies - Students who have completed the Criminal and Social Justice Certificate (CSJC) Program from College of the Rockies may be eligible to transfer into Year II of the Justice Studies Diploma program.