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Criminal Justice Studies - Course Requirements

A total of 20 semester hours (sh) in the courses listed below are required for completion of the Criminal Justice Studies minor. 

12 sh of required core courses:

 

 HUS 359  Criminal Justice 4 sh
 PSY 357  Criminal Behavior 4 sh
 SOC 355  Criminology 4 sh



8 semester hours (sh) selected from the following list of electives:

 CJS 171  Criminal Investigation 4 sh
 CJS 371  Serial Killers: A Multidisciplinary Approach 4 sh
 CJS 481  Internship 1-4 sh
 CJS 491  Independent Study 1-4 sh
 CJS 499  Research 1-4 sh
 GST 349  Forensic Biology 4 sh
 HUS 349  Violence in Families 4 sh
 HUS 369  Juvenile Justice 4 sh
 PHL 341  Philosophy of Law 4 sh
 POL 324  Civil Liberties 2 sh
 POL 372  Criminal Law 4 sh
 POL 374  Judicial Administration 4 sh
 POL 375  Comparative Justice Systems 4 sh
 POL 379  Gender and the Law 2 sh
 PSY 375  The Criminal Brain 4 sh
 PSY 378  Women and Crime 4 sh
 PSY 378  Psychology and the Law 4 sh
 SOC 278  Drugs in Society 4 sh
 SOC 342  Social Deviance 4 sh
 SOC 376  Prisons: Life Behind Bars 2 sh



Possible Future CJS Courses

The CJS Advisory Committee is in the process of considering a group of exciting and challenging courses to add to the list of electives. These include:

CIS    Cybercrime
CJS    Research Methods in Criminal Justice
CJS    Organized Crime
ENG    Murder Must Advertise: Crime and Detection in Literature
GST    Prison Nation: Deconstructing the Prison Industrial Complex
HST    History of Crime in America
PHL    Restorative Justice
POL    Environmental Crime
POL    Crimes Against Humanity
POL    International Terrorism
POL    International Human Rights
PSY    Psychopathology and Crime
SOC   White Collar Crime