REQUIRED FOR CRIMINAL JUSTICE MAJORS:

A. Criminal Justice majors must take all of these seven courses:
• CRJ 161 Intro to Criminal Justice
• CRJ 261 Criminology
• CRJ 480 Research Methods (Cross listed with SOC 480)
• CRJ 495 Ethics/Senior Seminar
• SOC 262 Dynamics of Race and Ethnicity
• SOC 301 Stat 1
• SOC 302 Stat 2

B. Criminal Justice majors must take at least ONE of these three courses before moving to section C. The other two courses offered in section “B” may be taken as an elective.
• CRJ 324 Policing: Theory and Dynamics
• CRJ 325 Criminal Courts
• CRJ 326 Institutional and Community Corrections

C. majors must take at least Four of these courses THREE of which must be
CRJ:
• CRJ 201 Social Problems)
• CRJ 280 Criminal Law
• CRJ 320 Delinquency and Juvenile Justice
• CRJ 324 Policing: Theory and Dynamics
• CRJ 325 Criminal Courts
• CRJ 326 Institutional and Community Corrections
• CRJ 340 Crimes of the Powerful
• CRJ 350 Violence in Society
• CRJ 370 Crime, Space and Place
• CRJ 387 Gender Crime and Justice
• CRJ 483 Criminal Justice Research (Cross Listed with SOC 481)
• SOC 265 Sociology of Law
• ENG 308 Legal Writing
• SWK 280 Human Behavior in the Social Environment)

CRJ 481-482 Students who meet the 2.75 GPA requirements, have junior standing, and can be recommended by a faculty member and the department chair are strongly encouraged to take an Internship (CRJ 481-482)

REQUIRED FOR MINOR IN CRIMINAL JUST ICE
• CRJ 161 Introduction to Criminal Justice
• CRJ 261 Criminology
• CRJ 280 Criminal Law
• CRJ 324 Policing: Theory and Dynamics
• CRJ 325 Criminal Courts
• CRJ 326 Institutional and Community Corrections

REQUIRED FOR DUAL SOCIOLOGY/CRIMINAL JUSTICE DEGREE:

A. Dual Sociology and Criminal Justice Majors must take these TEN classes:
• CRJ 161 Intro
• CRJ 261 Theory
• CRJ 480 Methods (Cross listed with SOC 480)
• CRJ 495 Ethics/Senior Seminar or SOC 481 RESEARCH METHODS (COUNTS AS CRJ 483)
• SOC 150 Principles of Sociology
• SOC 151 Social Problems (Counts as CRJ 201)
• SOC 262 Dynamics of Race and Ethnicity
• SOC 231 Love, Relations, Family) or SOC 260 (Men and Women in Cont. Society)
• SOC 301 Stat 1
• SOC 302 Stat 2
• SOC 310 Social Theory

B. Dual majors must take at least FOUR of these Sociology courses:
• SOC 238 Environment and Society
• SOC 265 Sociology of Law(CJ Elective)
• SOC 270 Sociology of Education
• SOC 306 Complex Organizations
• SOC 308 Social Inequality in Contemporary Society
• SOC 312 Social Movements in Contemporary Society

C. Dual majors must take least FOUR of these Criminal Justice courses:
• CRJ 161 Intro to Criminology
• CRJ 340 Crimes of the Powerful
• CRJ 350 Violence in Society
• CRJ 387 Gender, Crime and Justice
• CRJ 201 Social Problems (Counts as SOC 151)
• CRJ 280 Criminal Law
• CRJ 320 Delinquency and Juvenile Justice (Cross listed with SOC 320)
• CRJ 324 Policing
• CRJ 325 Courts
• CRJ 326 Corrections
• CRJ 483 Criminal Justice Research
• SOC 265 Sociology of Law
• SOC 340 Crimes of the Powerful
• ENG 308 Legal Writing

(SOC 340) or CJ Internship (CRJ 481-482) Students who meet the 2.75 GPA requirements, have junior standing, and can be recommended by faculty and the department chair are strongly encouraged to take a Sociology (SOC 340) or CJ Internship (CRJ 481-482)

Business Administration Minor appropriate for Criminal Justice
Majors

Criminal Justice majors who plan to work for a criminal justice agency (e.g., police department, probation/parole department, court administration, corrections management) may benefit from a background in business, especially when seeking supervisory or management positions. Therefore, criminal justice majors are encouraged to take a minor in business administration (see page 121). A substitution for one of the required six courses will be made for criminal justice majors so that the minor provides them the ideal background. Interested students should contact the Assistant Dean in the School of Business.

CONTINUATION POLICY

Continuation for majors in the Criminal Justice Program requires that a student receive at least a C- in every CRJ course. Failure to receive a C- or higher means that the student must repeat the course. A student may take a course up to three times.

A student can request an exception to this policy in writing, addressed to the Criminal Justice Program Director. A department faculty member can provide written material to support a policy exception for a student. In the case of sequential or prerequisite courses, the Criminal Justice Program will have discretion regarding the application of this policy as it pertains to student progression in the major.