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Bachelor of Arts

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The major is designed to prepare students for career opportunities in the criminal justice field, to include law enforcement, courts and corrections, and private security, or for further study at the graduate level in criminal justice, criminology or law. To successfully complete the criminal justice major, the following coursework is required:
  • 27 Criminal Justice core component credits
  • 12 Criminal Justice elective credits
  • 15 skills components credits
  • 37 academic core credits
  • 18 general elective credits
  • 11 credits of a foreign language [Spanish or Arabic recommended].

A minimum of 120 credits is required for degree, the last 30 of which must be taken at La Roche College.

Criminal Justice Required Courses: 27 credits (Students may select CRIM/SOC 330, Theories of Criminal Deviance OR CRIM 342, Applied Criminology)

CRIM 101 Introduction to the Criminal Justice System
CRIM 205 Constitutional Law
CRIM 211 Intelligence Analysis and Presentation Techniques
CRIM 310 Criminal Law
CRIM 342 Applied Criminology
CRIM 345 Criminal Investigations
CRIM 455 Senior Criminal Justice Capstone
 

Elective Courses: select any 4 courses (12 credits)

CRIM 100 CSI: La Roche
CRIM 210 Introduction to Corrections
CRIM 300 Correctional Counseling
CRIM 320 Special Topics in Criminal Justice
CRIM 334 Enterprise & Transnational Crime
CRIM 336 Terrorism
CRIM 340 Crime Scene & Forensics Laboratory
CRIM 341 Criminalistics
CRIM 343 Computer Crime
CRIM 346 Security Management & Loss Prevention
CRIM 352 Administration of Criminal Justice Organizations
CRIM 354 Law Enforcement Communications: Interviewing, Note Taking and Report Writing
CRIM 412 Emergency Preparedness and Crisis Management
CRIM 451 Internship in Criminal Justice
CRIM 457 Independent Study
 

Skills Component: 15 credits (students may select CRIM 212, Analysis of Criminal Justice Data OR MT 140, Probability & Statistics; students may select CRIM 218, Professional Responsibility OR PH 226 Ethics

CRIM 212 Analysis of Criminal Justice Data
CRIM 218 Professional Responsibility: Legal & Ethical Concepts
EN 230 Technical Writing
IST 208 Introduction to Cyberspace
MT 140 Probability and Statistics
PH 120 Logic
PH 226 Ethics
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