
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