Minor in Criminal Justice

The Criminal Justice Program offers courses in the study of criminal behavior, criminal law, and proactive and reactive strategies of social control of crime.  It is unique in the following ways:

• The program emphasizes an interdisciplinary view of crime and its control, including policing, crime prevention through personal change and community development, taught within  the context of the traditional liberal arts
• The program offers opportunities to study within agencies dealing with crime and justice
• The program offers courses that broadly educate students in the full range of issues related to the social nature of crime, criminal law and social control

Requirements for the Minor

Required courses

SOC 170 Social Responses to Crime
SOC 242 Methods of Social Research
SOC 271 Deviance
SOC 470 Criminology
SOC 473/POL 453 Crime, Law, and the

Administration of Justice Students must take one additional course
from Group A or B or a 3-credit internship

Group A: Perspectives on Human Behavior

SOC 273 International Organized Crime
SOC 278 Drugs and Society
SOC 372 Women and Crime
SOC 376 Juvenile Delinquency
SOC 378 Studies in Criminal Behavior
SOC 382 Race and Ethnic Relations
SOC 475 Race and Crime
SOC 476 Street Gangs
POL 421 Political Violence
PSY 242 Adolescent and Emerging Adult Development
PSY 262 Abnormal Psychology
PHI 233 Organizational Ethics

Group B: Law and the Response to Social Conflict

SOC 274 Sociological Analysis of Prisons and Corrections   
SOC 277 Policing Society                       
SOC 319 Internship                           
SOC 375 Social Control                       
SOC 379 Studies in Crime Control
POL 351 Criminal Law and Procedure
POL 450 Constitutional Law                                                                       
POL 451 Civil Liberties and Rights