Criminal Justice General and Honors Programs (BA)

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Criminal Justice (CRJ) information

Inter-Disciplinary Prerequisites (12 credits)

Requirements

Completion of 33 credits as follows.

A. Social-Scientific Inquiry & Core Courses (21-22 credits)

SOC 210 - Introduction to Social Research (3)
SOC 215 - General Statistics (3)
CRJ 288 - Correctional Systems and Practices (3)
CRJ 432 - Policing Contemporary Society (3)
CRJ 450 - Senior Seminar in Criminal Justice (3)
SOC 384 - Criminology (3)
CRJ 485 - Law and Society (3)
or
SOC 485 - Law and Society (3)

B. Additional Courses (12 credits)

Four from:

CRJ 300 - Gender, Crime and Justice (3)
or
WGS 300 - Gender, Crime and Justice (3)
CRJ 350 - Crime and Media (3)
CRJ 355 - Probation and Parole: Critical Perspectives (3)
CRJ 380 - Criminal Law (3)
CRJ 381 - Gangs in American Society (3)
CRJ 384 - Comparative Criminal Justice System (3)
CRJ 385 - Crimes of the Powerful (3)
CRJ 386 - Punishment and Social Control (3)
CRJ 388 - Corrections: A Critical Perspective (3)
CRJ 398 - Special Topics in Criminal Justice (3)
CRJ 399 - Criminal Justice Internship (3-6)
CRJ 430 - Processing Offenders (3)
CRJ 431 - Restorative Justice (3)
CRJ 433 - Social Inequality and Crime (3)
POL 380 - The U.S. System of Law (3)
SAT 202 - Problems of Substance Abuse (3)
SOC 344 - Cities and Society (3)
or
ANT 344 - Cities and Society (3)
SOC 380 - Sociology of Deviance (3)

C. Additional Requirements

All requirements of the College of Arts and Sciences (CAS) Bachelor of Arts degree, including General Education and additional BA distribution requirements .

Minimum Credits for the Degree: 120 credits

Honors Program Requirements

Prospective Honors Program students are required to complete all of the above Criminal Justice requirements and University of Michigan-Flint Honors Program requirements, to include:

Grade point average of 3.5 for the first 55 hours
PSY 100 - Principles of Psychology (3)
A course in philosophy
CRJ 391 - Directed Reading/Research in Criminal Justice (1-3)
Honors Program students are urged to acquaint themselves as early as possible with the requirements above as well as with the particular procedures for acceptance into the Criminal Justice Honors Program. See the Criminal Justice Honors Advisor or the Honors Program Director for this information.