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Criminal Justice Minor

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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.

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