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Criminal Justice Program

Director: Anthony Harris

Office: 524 Thompson

Phone: 545-4075

The Criminal Justice Program is intended for majors or minors interested in working in the criminal justice system. It offers guidance through available offerings in criminology, deviance, and delinquency.

Successful completion of the program's requirements earns the student a formal letter describing the program and attesting to the student's completion of its requirements. Students can expect faculty members teaching in the program to write useful letters of recommendation, since one or more of the courses taken will have had small enrollments.

Requirements

103 Social Problems (recommended), or other 100-level Sociology course

241 Criminology

342 Deviance and Social Order

Any two of the following:

242 Drugs and Society

344 Gender and Crime

345 Gangs and Delinquency

347 Corporate Crime and Deviance

491/497 Criminal Justice Capstone Seminar

591A Analyzing Crime

591B Punishment and Corrections

Any one of the following:

ANTH 205 Inequality and Oppression

HIST 150 American Civilization to 1876

HIST 151 American Civilization since 1876

LEGAL 250 Introduction to Legal Studies

LEGAL 333 Law and Culture in America

POLSCI 163 Introduction to Civil Liberties

POLSCI 360 Constitutional Law

PSYCH 355 Psychology of Adolescence

PSYCH 380 Abnormal Psychology

PSYCH 591B Forensic Psychology

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