Criminal Justice, BS-MS Criminal Investigation Concentration

General Education Requirements

Competencies

Competencies must be completed within the student’s first 30 credits.

♣ General Education Categories (34-35 credits total)

FYS, W-I, and OC courses must be completed within the student’s first 30 credits. Courses used to satisfy the general education requirements of the university must be taken from a minimum of six different academic disciplines. First Year Seminar and Level I Written Communications courses are exempt from this restriction.  Courses may not be used to fulfill both major discipline and general education requirements. 

 ‡ Written Communication (Level II & Level III) and Diversity, Power Dynamics & Social Justice

Courses taken for Written Communication Level II, Level III and Diversity, Power Dynamics and Social Justice may be used to satisfy requirements anywhere else in a student’s program of study where they may apply.  Credits will be counted in the area where they apply.

♥       Students may choose to use support courses to satisfy general education categories, but may not be required to do so.  Note:  If a course is used to satisfy two or more requirements (for example, a support course and Scientific Reasoning requirement), the credits are counted in only one place.  Using a course to satisfy more than one requirement does not reduce the credit total required for graduation.  

♣       Courses used to satisfy the general education requirements of the university must be taken from a minimum of six different academic disciplines.  First Year Seminar and Level I Written Communications courses are exempt from this restriction.  Courses may not be used to fulfill both major discipline and general education requirements.

#       These Scientific Reasoning General Education Category courses do not have to be a sequence or be from the same discipline.

‡        Level II and Level III Written Communications courses and Diversity, Power Dynamics & Social Justice may be used to satisfy requirements anywhere else in a student’s program of study where they may apply. The credits are counted only in one area.

♦        General Education categories to be completed with the first 30 credits. Exceptions in the timing of these courses will be made for transfer students.

Courses in Major (51 credits total)

Major Concentration Courses (18 credits)

• CRJ 250 Introduction to Criminal Investigation Procedures
• CRJ 380 Criminal Profiling
• CRJ  ___    Graduate Course
• CRJ  ___    Graduate Course
• CRJ  ___    Graduate Course
• CRJ  ___    Graduate Course

♥ Required Support Courses (29 credits total)

• ACC 106 Financial Accounting
• ACC 350 Forensic Accounting
• GLS 100 Dynamic Earth
• GLS 235 Forensic Geology
• PSY 101 General Psychology
• PSY 330 Psychology and the Law
• SOC 110 Introduction to Sociology

• Select one course from each of the following two areas (6 credits):

  • ____ ____  Women’s Issues Course
  • ____ ____  African-American or Hispanic Course

Free Electives (5 credits minimum)

May be necessary to take additional credits to attain the the minimum 120 credits required for graduation depending on choices made for general education of minor selection.

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Total credits for undergraduate degree: 120

Additional credits required for graduate degree.