Future Goals For Law Enforcement

During this semester in University Studies, I have been able to gain several different aspects and information which I will be able to use not only in my current career in Law Enforcement but also in any future endeavors. These future goals are not only in my career and academic life but also in my personal life.

I was taught many years ago when I was going through the police academy that a person does not know everything on a specific subject. No matter if you’re an expert in this subject, your goal should be to try to take away at least one thing that you did not know and learned. If a person can do this throughout their education and their career, he/she will be successful.

In this class, I began not understanding why someone my age would

need this class. I definitely understood a student straight out of high school needing to go through this class, however, what was I going to really get out of this class? While taking this class, I remembered what was taught to me and decided, I needed to find at least one thing that will help me. Come to find out, I found several.
The very first subject we had was to learn about the history of Fayetteville State University. This assignment at first seemed very foolish to me until I started learning about the universities history. Learning how free blacks were secretly teaching and educating the slaves during the Civil War was very enlightening to me. I also found it very interesting when I learned how the Phillips School and the Sumner School were combined together after the Civil War to form the Howard School, which would later change names several times until it’s name now, Fayetteville State University.
The motivational board, emotional intelligence tests, and the personality tests which were taken during this course also peaked my interest. At this stage in my life I really already knew what type of person I was. But being able to take a test and confirming those ideas was very enlightening also. I really believe that this subject will help younger students know what type of career might be more suitable for them and to understand not to just settle on a career just because, but to find a career that he/she will be happy in. I am very fortunate in this area due to the fact that I do love the career I am in. However, I will use this information in future decisions if I ever decide to change my occupation.
When I first starting coming into University Studies class I was trying to understand why I actually needed this class. But being able to take the mentality I explained before and deciding to learn at least one thing showed me this class had not only one thing but several things for me to learn from. This class has been a great tool to me and will be a great tool to many other students in the future.