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Nov 27, 2024
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2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog
Criminal Justice, B.S.
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The B.S. 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. In order to fulfill requirements for the B.S. in Criminal Justice, students must complete a minimum of 15 hours of math or science.
Degree Requirements
Each student completes the following:
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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
Graduation Composition and Communication Requirement (GCCR)
Graduation Composition and Communication Requirement hours (GCCR): 3
Major Requirement 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.
Guided Elective hours: 12
Free Electives
Complete sufficient free electives to total 120 credit hours required to complete the degree. 15 credit hours of electives must be in biological, physical or math sciences.
Second Semester
- CJ 328 - FORENSIC INVESTIGATIONS Credit(s): 3
- Credit(s): 3
- Biological, Physical or Math Science Elective Credit(s): 3
- Free Elective Credit(s): 3
- Free Elective Credit(s): 3
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