Legal Studies: Criminal Justice Concentration (comprehensive) Requirements
A minimum of 57 credits (58 credits with a core University Studies mathematics course MATH 130) to include:
Legal Studies Core Courses (9 credits required):
Course Course Title
Credits Grade
Planned to Take
Alternative Dispute
Resolution
Justice Core Courses (24 credits required):
CJUS 106
Crime, Behavior and Social
Control
3
CJUS 207 Police and Society
LSTU 321 Judicial Process
CJUS 316
Crime, Corrections and
Punishment
3
CJUS 448 Criminology
CJUS 463
Delinquency and Juvenile
Justice
3
CJUS 491 Applied Criminal Justice
CJUS 492 Criminal Justice Policy Issues
CJUS 498
Senior Capstone Presentation
0
Courses available to be paired with Capstone Presentation
include: CJUS 463, 491, or 492 with advisor consent
Research Design and Quantitative Analysis courses (6-7 credits required):
Course Course Title
Credits Grade
Planned to Take
CJUS 374
Research Methods in Criminal
Justice
3
And one (1) of the following statistics courses
MATH 130 Elementary Statistics
Statistics for Psychological
Research
3
Diversity course (3 credits required):
Course Course Title Credits Grade Planned to Take
CJUS 312 Gender, Crime, and Justice
Gender, Crime, and Justice
3
Race, Class, Gender and the
Law
3
Electives (15 total credits required)
Law and Justice Electives (9 credits required):
Course Course Title
Credits Grade
Planned to Take
CJUS 160 Field Exp./Cert Prog CJUS
1-3
LSTU 210 Criminal Procedure
3
CJUS 212 Criminal Investigations
3
LSTU 261 Contemporary Issues in Law