Criminal Justice Majors

All students are required to take ENGL 110C and ENGL 111C, HIST 111C or PHIL 111C and they must receive a minimum of a C (2.00) in these courses before they can declare their major. All students must take three hours of computer science or computer applications from CS 101D, 149D, ISYS 100D, 201D, or OTS 251 outside of the major. Students pursuing a Bachelor of Science degree are required to take nine hours of social science General Education perspective courses outside of the major or emphasis area and satisfy the General Education foreign language requirement. Students pursuing a Bachelor of Arts degree must meet all of the requirements for a Bachelor of Arts degree in the College of Arts and Letters. This includes completion of foreign language proficiency at the fourth-semester level. All students must meet the oral communication requirement by completing one of the following: COMM 101R or 112R. No course can be used to meet more than one requirement.

The requirements are as follows:

1. STAT 130M.

2. ENGL 111C, HIST 111C or PHIL 111C.

3. SOC 201S and PSYC 201S.

4. Forty-two hours in Criminal Justice and Sociology including:

   1. Eighteen hours of Tools: 
      CRJS 215S, 222, 262, 436, 426, 436, and SOC 337.

   2. Eighteen hours of Electives from CRJS courses at the 300/400 levels. Three hours must be selected from CRJS 401W, 403W or 418W to meet the writing intensive requirement.

   3. Three-hour Law component from: 
      CRJS 320, 448, 462 or other approved law courses. (Note: CRJS courses used to meet the law requirement cannot also be used to meet the requirement of 15 hours of CRJS 300/400-level electives.)

   4. Three-hour Social Differentiation component from: 
      SOC 320U, 340U, 352U, 402, 426U or other approved Differentiation courses.

Students are urged to take elective courses or to consider minoring in psychology, sociology, public administration, political science, computer science, management information systems, or management.

Students interested in careers in corrections work including probation and parole are urged to take courses in the social welfare sequence (SOC 310, 325, 402) and/or minor in either sociology with a social welfare specialization or human services counseling.