Criminal Justice (BA)

Bachelor of Arts Degree

General Education

I. Communication (9 hours)
Rhetoric and Composition		ENGL 1101*							Rhetoric and Composition	3
Literature and Composition		ENGL 1102*							Literature and Composition	3
Communication									Choose course from approved list	3
II. Humanities and Fine Arts (15 hours)
Modern Languages									Choose sequence from approved list	6
English Literature									Choose one 2000-level English Literature course (except for ENGL 2225 and ENGL 2226 which	3
									meet the General Education Ethics requirement, below)
Philosophy and Religion									Choose one PHIL or RELG course at the 1000-2000 level	3
Fine Arts									Choose course from approved list	3
III. History and Social Sciences (9 hours)
World History									Choose course from approved list	3
Government									Choose course from approved list	3
Social Science									Choose course from approved list	3
IV. Mathematics and Natural Sciences (11 hours)
Mathematics		MATH 1300*							Elementary Statistics	3
Natural Science									Choose a pair in sequence from approved list	8
V. Ethics (3 hours)
Ethics									Choose course from approved list	3
VI. Institutional Requirement (1 hour)
First-Year Experience   *Grade of C or higher required.		PDMT 1101							Introduction to University Life and the Liberal Arts Tradition	1

Total Credit Hours:

47-48

Students who enter with fewer than 24 semester credit hours must satisfy the institutional requirement.

Criminal Justice Major

CRJU 1290	Introduction to Criminal Justice	3
CRJU 2335	Criminal Investigation	3
CRJU 3330	Police and Society	3
CRJU 3331	Juvenile Justice	3
CRJU 3380	Victimology	3
CRJU 3385	Punishment in the United States	3
CRJU 3390	Criminology	3
CRJU 4430	Homeland Security and Terrorism	3
FRSC 1101	Criminalistics	3
POSC 3370	Adjudication Processes	3
POSC 4415	Criminal Law and Procedure	3
SOSC 3310	Research Methods	3
SOSC 3398	Internship	1-6
SOSC 4480	Senior Seminar	3
Total Credit Hours:		40-45

Criminal Justice Electives

Students may take CRJU 1300 (Introduction to Cyber Investigations) and CRJU 3200 (Cyber Investigation) as electives, or they may choose six hours of electives from the following courses:

CRJU 3400	Drug Identification and Classification	3
CRJU 3600	Sex Crimes and Offenders	3
CRJU 3800	Transnational Crime	3
CRJU 4000	Criminal Justice Experiences Across Demographics	3
CRJU 4100	Serial Killers	3
CRJU 4200	Forensic Psychology	3
CRJU 4475	Special Topics	3
POSC 4500	Constitutional Law	3
PSYC 4415	Abnormal Psychology	3
SOSC 3398	Internship	1-6
SOCI 4410	The Variety of Human Experiences in the US	3
Total Credit Hours:		6

General Electives

 

	General Electives	26-35
Total Credit Hours:		26-35

Total Credit Hours: 121