Nov 23, 2024  
2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog

Criminal Justice, B.A.


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The B.A. in Criminal Justice provides an interdisciplinary, comprehensive understanding of the multifaceted criminal justice system. This degree cultivates critical thinking through examining the role of social and legal systems, structures, and institutions in addressing individual and community needs and seeking equitable outcomes. Current trends in public policies, and diversion and treatment including restorative and juvenile justice are examined to prepare students for the variety of meaningful career opportunities in justice-oriented settings.

The Criminal Justice degree prepares students for careers as frontline staff and administrators in public and private criminal justice settings including advocacy, probation and parole, prosecution and enforcement, correctional facilities, and court systems. This degree creates a foundation for advanced graduate and professional studies.

Degree Requirements

Each student completes the following:

UK Core Requirements


See the UK Core section of this Catalog for the complete UK Core requirements.  The courses listed below are (a) recommended by the college, or (b) required courses that also fulfill UK Core areas. Students should work closely with their advisor to complete the UK Core requirements.

I. Intellectual Inquiry in Arts and Creativity


II. Intellectual Inquiry in the Humanities


III. Intellectual Inquiry in the Social Sciences


IV. Intellectual Inquiry in Natural, Physical and Mathematical Sciences


V. Composition and Communication I


VI. Composition and Communication II


VII. Quantitative Foundations


VIII. Statistical Inferential Reasoning


IX. Community, Culture and Citizenship in the USA


X. Global Dynamics


UK Core hours: 30


Graduation Composition and Communication Requirement (GCCR)


Graduation Composition and Communication Requirement hours (GCCR): 3


Subtotal: Major hours: 27


Guided Electives


Select 12 credit hours of guided electives that provide a depth of learning related to the intended criminal justice practice setting. Examples include:

Guided Elective hours: 12


Free Electives


Complete sufficient free electives to total 120 credit hours required to complete the degree.

Free Elective hours: 51


TOTAL HOURS: 120


Curriculum


Year 1


First Semester


Second Semester


Year 2


First Semester


Second Semester


Year 3


First Semester


Second Semester


Year 4


First Semester


Second Semester


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