Criminal Justice Minor

Goal 1: Criminal justice minors will gain foundational knowledge of the core concepts and theoretical perspectives that define the causes of and responses to crime.

Outcome 1: Students will be able to define, classify, and compare the core concepts and theoretical perspectives that explain individual behaviors and criminal justice systems.

Goal 2: Criminal justice minors will analyze social problems with appropriate social scientific research methods.

Outcome 2: Students will be able to design a research study and apply appropriate designs and analyyic methods to answer research questions.

Goal 3: Criminal justice minors will effectively communicate about their discipline.

Outcome 3: Students will be able to interpret and explain course content and empirical findings in oral and written communications.

Goal 4: Criminal justice minors will examine the impacts of culture and social structure on the criminal justice system.

Outcome 4: Students will be able to explain and critically assess the significance of race, class, gender identity, sexual identity, and age in the social construction of crime and justice.

Course List
Code	Title	Hours
SOC 102	Social Problems	3
SOC 206	Theories of Crime	3
SOC 207	Juvenile Justice	3
SOC 225	Intro to American CJ	3
SOC 312	Research Methods	3
or SOC 313	Data Analysis
Select one additional 200+ course with a Criminal Justice attribute.		3
For Sociology majors; SOC 206 SOC 225; SOC 207; and any three additional SOC courses with a Criminal Justice attribute.
Total Hours		18