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Coordinator: Dr. Todd Peppers
About the Program
Criminal Justice is a multidisciplinary program. Students who wish to pursue a Criminal Justice degree will study the causes, impacts and ways to control crime. Courses focus on civil and criminal law.
Requirements
The B.A. degree with a major in criminal justice may be awarded to those students who satisfactorily complete 12 units from the following program. Criminal Justice/Political Science 211 should be completed as early as possible.
A. Criminal Justice - 3 required units:
CJUS/POLI 209 Research Methods in Criminal Justice
CJUS/POLI 211 Criminal Justice
CJUS 401 Seminar in Criminal Justice
B. Political Science - 2 required units:
POLI 201 State and Local Government
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POLI 301 Public Administration
POLI 250 Public Policy
C. Sociology - 3 required units:
SOCI 101 Introduction to Sociology
SOCI 238 Juvenile Delinquency
SOCI 334 Criminology
D. Electives - 4 required units:
Two from Group I: Policy Studies
CJUS/POLI 213 Criminal Law
CJUS/POLI 214 The Judicial Process
CJUS 215 Forensics
CJUS 325 Comparative Law Enforcement
CJUS/SOCI 326 Comparative Corrections
Two from Group II: Related Studies
BUAD 215 Accounting Principles I
CJUS 227 Law and Society
CJUS 231 Juvenile Justice
INQ 250 Chemistry & Crimes
POLI 201 State and Local Government
POLI 270 Public Administration
POLI 312 Civil Liberties
PSYC 211 Adolescent Development
PSYC 230 Abnormal Psychology
SOCI 237 Deviant Behavior
CJUS 261 Selected Topics in Criminal Justice
CJUS 406 Independent Study
CJUS 416 Internship (1-2 units)
CJUS 495, 6, 7 Honors Project (1/2, 1, 1/2 units)