Careers in Criminal Justice

A major in criminal justice prepares the student for one of several professional options in the field of justice administration.

The LAW ENFORCEMENT sequence makes possible a career in public law enforcement [federal, state, or community] as well as private and industrial security.

CORRECTIONS emphasizes and prepares the criminal justice major to become a practitioner in institutional corrections, community based correctional settings, or juvenile justice administration.

The LEGAL ASSISTANT emphasis enables the student to prepare for occupations in ancillary aspects of the legal profession such as legal assistant, paralegal research, and court administration.

All majors are advised that they should consider selected courses depending upon specific career interests in the field of justice administration. The criminal justice major requires 33 to 34 semester hours of course work. In addition, there are several required collateral courses for each curricular sequence.

• ENG 382 - Reasoning & Writing

• PBA 300 - Introduction to Public Administration

• PBA 415 - Public Budgeting & Finance Administration

• PSC 403 -  American Constitutional Law, Individual and Their Rights

• SOC 378 - Methods in Social Research.

• MTH 220 - Introduction to Probability and Statistics or SOC 379 - Data Analysis or PSY 330 - Psychological Statistics