Purposes

• To provide students with understanding of social environments and patterns of human behavior. This knowledge is a foundation for many disciplines in addition to sociology, e.g., criminal justice, education, psychology, social work, ministry, business and international affairs.

• To help students understand themselves and others in the context of local, national and world societies through the comparison of societies and cultures.

• To prepare students to work with many populations and issues in a variety of settings in the United States and elsewhere in the world.

• To provide students with the tools for study and analysis of the structure and functioning of social groups, social institutions, and societies.

Tradition of Excellence

• A minor in Criminal Justice as a complement to other disciplines.

Criminal Justice Minor

The minor in Criminal Justice consists of five required courses and one additional course. The minor must include a minimum of 12 units of upper-division credit. All classes required for the minor must be completed with a grade of “C” (2.000) or above.

REQUIRED

COURSE # TITLE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .UNITS

SOC 101 Intro to Sociology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3

SOC 209 Intro to Criminal Justice . . . . . . . . . .3

SOC 310 Criminology OR

SOC 314 Juvenile Delinquency . . . . . . . . . . . . .3

SOC 360 Race and Ethnicity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3

SOC 409 Criminal Law OR

SOC 410 Constitutional Foundations of Criminal Justice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3

One of the following courses (3-4 units):

SOC 305 Social Stratification . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3

SOC 320 Social Psychology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3

SOC 350 Urban Sociology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3

SOC 471 Internship: Criminal Justice . . . . . . .4

PSY 321 Abnormal Psychology . . . . . . . . . . . . .3

TOTAL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .18-19