Undergraduate Catalog 2024-2025

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
(ENGL 2225 and ENGL 2226 may NOT be used)

3

                     

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 (10 to 11 hours)

                     
Mathematics    MATH 1300*             Elementary Statistics 3
                     
Natural Science                 Choose a pair in sequence from approved list   7 to 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:46-48

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

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 3380Victimology

3

CRJU 3600Sex Crimes and Offenders

3

CRJU 3700Green Criminology

3

CRJU 3800White-Collar Crime

3

CRJU 3900Organized Crime

3

CRJU 4000Women and Crime

3

CRJU 4100Serial Killers

3

CRJU 4475Special Topics

3

POSC 4500Constitutional Law

3

PSYC 4415Abnormal Psychology

3

SOSC 3398Internship

1-6

SOCI 4410Race and Ethnic Relations

3

Total Credit Hours:6

Criminal Justice Major

CRJU 1290Introduction to Criminal Justice

3

CRJU 2335Criminal Investigation

3

CRJU 3330Police and Society

3

CRJU 3331Juvenile Justice

3

CRJU 3385Punishment in the United States

3

CRJU 3390Criminology

3

CRJU 3500Race and Policing in America

3

CRJU 4430Homeland Security and Terrorism

3

FRSC 1101Criminalistics

3

POSC 3370Adjudication Processes

3

POSC 4415Criminal Law and Procedure

3

SOSC 3310Research Methods

3

SOSC 3398Internship

1-6

SOSC 4480Senior Seminar

3

Total Credit Hours:40-45

General Electives

 
General Electives

26-35

Total Credit Hours:26-35

Total Credit Hours: 121