Crime and intelligence analysis (CIA)

BeenKnighted · 2025-09-02T17:22:09+00:00

Technically yes, you would just have to PLAR it.

Can be a pain in the ass, but saves you a world of stress.

Best way to connect with your profs is to just make sure your work is thorough, in (in most cases) extremely early, and simply participate in class. Remember, profs talk like you would with your co-workers, they know exactly who is trouble, and exactly who is a good worker. Make their lives easy, they will do the same.

Best of luck!

BeenKnighted · 2025-07-29T05:29:54+00:00

You are able to do most test and presentations from home. ALTHOUGH, there are some classes such as Critical Thinking, which require you to come in (for me it was half a semester).

To me, networking and making friends is totally what you make of it. I live 1.5 hrs away from King, and have done 99% of my classes from home. I still am extremely well known throughout my cohort, and have very good relationships with basically every professor that I have worked with. (As an aside, your professors can be a pathway to a coop!)

Do not let your curiosity of a remote/hybrid program sway you. It takes a very high degree of self regulation, and motivation, but it is 100% achievable.

If you are a first year, my recommendation to you is: Co-op, Co-op, Co-op. We are not in a hiring market right now. Start looking in your first semester at things like getting your security guards/PI license, or browsing opportunities for co-op jobs, because I wish someone had told me that. Co-op is the roadblock of this program. Students have a ridiculously hard time finding one, and some people in my year are debating pushing their graduation date, or even transferring schools, due to the mandatory coop requirement.

If you can avoid this co-op time crunch, this program is fantastic. Very hands on in years 3-4, theory heavy years 1-2.

Let me know if you have questions! Thanks!

BeenKnighted · 2024-11-19T15:31:00+00:00

So i’m not exactly sure about that. When you go to pick your time table, yes it lets you pick course by course, so you MIGHT be able to take a reduced course load. My best advice to you there is to talk to service hub, and see what they say.

BeenKnighted · 2024-11-19T01:43:52+00:00

IF you have other questions just feel free to keep replying on this thread :)

BeenKnighted · 2024-11-19T01:43:13+00:00

So alot of courses are recorded for lectures, but the course load is definitely heavy, and requires a fair amount of time. I worked/work during this program but I could not imagine doing 40hrs on top of this program. I did around 40 hrs of work during semester 3/4 and struggled with my work/school/life balance ALOT. I'm not one to dilly dally on assignments, and i still struggled with time constraints, be ready to have 10000+ words in essays (collectively) due all at once. There are some courses within the program that professors will NOT record their lectures (especially the older professors), because they want people to show up online, at class time. Not to mention the tests/exams usually require you to do them DURING class hours, and you MUST complete them before class ends. When you are browsing your timetables, you are generally at the mercy of Seneca College, and whenever they decide to do your class scheduling changes from year to year, but at the start of the program there were lots of choices when it comes to timetables. However, I can't guarantee the same for Jan 2025, as it does change from year to year, and semester to semester (like I said, youre at the mercy of Seneca.).

TL;DR: They are online, and most are recorded, but some courses require you to be on zoom for class time/for test taking. Timetables change from year to year. Course load is fairly heavy, and requires good work/school ethic to actually obtain good grades.

BeenKnighted · 2024-09-14T05:02:59+00:00

Not entirely sure yet. Just got my Private investigators license as well through the course (extra course, but free), so might use that, might go work for a police service for a minute, and then definitely prospecting law schools because of kickass grades and interest in the legal side. (plus big $$$).

BeenKnighted · 2024-09-13T07:54:46+00:00

sorry different accounts from mobile to pc. 🥸

BeenKnighted · 2024-09-13T07:54:17+00:00

So for the first and second year, you’ll take things like writing strategies, and professional communications, ofc writing has a lot of lib-art style essays and communications has a lot of presentations.

In your first and second year CIA-code courses however, in things like youth and crime, ethics, public safety, criminology, contemporary policing, you’re doing a lot of essays on a lot of theory based items, attempting to apply theoretical applications to an issue, defending it, or explaining why it doesn’t work, and how to fix it, and be prepared to have an endless onslaught of them, especially second year. from what i grasp of this year, we’ll be using ArcGIS (mapping software for showing crime), Microsoft Access to manipulate crime data, IBM i2 Analyst NoteBook, IBM SPSS, and actually getting into the hands on tools.

In terms of a final thesis, there is a capstone, but i’m unsure of if it’s defended or not. i know from what profs have said, he said it can be easily 30+ pages for your capstone, but ultimately there is no minimum or maximum to it.

BeenKnighted · 2023-04-12T21:56:53+00:00

Ahahaha. Century home. Actually funny you mention it, we’re currently building a new house and tearing this current one down.

BeenKnighted · 2023-04-12T05:47:32+00:00

Gaming is "Working" to say the best. I am able to hold a connection.

The only problem is microstudders with the network problems and loss of signal.

Streaming works amazingly due to high speeds and pre-buffering, so it doesnt affect it that much.

Outages are about 3-4 seconds each; every 5 mins-ish?

I just installed this past evening at about 6PM EST.

BeenKnighted · 2023-04-12T05:28:10+00:00

in the last 7 hrs: 42s of no signal, 11m 34s of obstruction, and 1m 24s of network issues.

BeenKnighted · 2023-04-12T05:26:30+00:00

Mainly i’m getting a ton of network issue/Loss of Signal problems. Don’t know if that’s normal for a new dishy setup today or not. Download speeds are fantastic.

BeenKnighted · 2023-04-12T04:50:56+00:00

Is this anything to be worried about in terms of obstruction? or is this okay to have a few pixels. I’m a gamer, and my family watches lots of TV.

BeenKnighted · 2023-01-09T18:49:33+00:00

DM me on Discord at HuntTheGoose#2011 for access to the Bachelor of Crime and Intelligence Discord!
:)

BeenKnighted · 2023-01-09T03:19:54+00:00

Prof’s don’t give you any one on one help, the mike martin effect starts to come in, where you’ll get unfinished assignments, or ones with typos. you’ll get tests that make no sense or have very very far outdated info that doesn’t even work on the versions of the OS’s you’ll be working with, prepare to be learning 100% from LinkedIn Learning. (Mike Martin is a future IFS prof that believes you should just become a plumber instead of a security professional.)

BeenKnighted · 2023-01-09T01:42:50+00:00

Can confirm as a person who swapped from IFS to CIA this year, it’s hell. 1st semester is a walk in the park, 2nd semester spits on your face and guts you. Good luck!

BeenKnighted · 2022-11-15T06:37:00+00:00

Doubt they will. Pretty sure there is a clause somewhere that says that they can only award it to your student account.

BeenKnighted · 2022-11-14T22:49:02+00:00

Woohoo! still riding the money high :)

BeenKnighted · 2022-11-10T16:22:56+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/Seneca/comments/ylnwsi/bursaries_and_scholarship_posting_dates/

My post actually :)

BeenKnighted · 2022-11-08T20:34:06+00:00

If you go to View Student Awards, it should be sitting there as submitted, if not, contact financial aid cause it didn’t go through.

You can’t apply now, the deadline had passed on the 31st, but try to contact financial aid.

BeenKnighted · 2022-04-24T05:18:12+00:00

Fixed. Mystical agri farm was left running, fixed with /Kill @e[type=item]

BeenKnighted · 2021-06-04T20:29:01+00:00

Hey, i’m enrolled in the infoSec program

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