Course Requirements
The following represents only one of many paths students can take to complete the major in social & criminal justice.
Social & Criminal Justice Core (Required)
- SCJ-101 Introduction to Social and Criminal Justice
- SCJ-202 Police and Society
- SOC-203 Collateral Consequences of Corrections
- SOC-235 Methods of Sociological Research
- SOC-351 Criminology
Philosophy of Law (Choose 1)
- PHL-265 Political Philosophy
- PHL-285 Law, Morality, and Punishment
- PHL- 315 Punishment and Responsibility
Statistical Reasoning (Choose 1)
- STA-100 Statistical Foundations (7 weeks) and STA-110 Inferential Statistics (7 weeks)
- PSY-300 Statistical Methods and Data Analysis
Social & Criminal Justice Major Electives (Choose 3)
- COM-237 Interpersonal Communication (WE)
- EDU-187 Human Relations (WE)
- ENG-127 Social Justice and Literature: Literature of Incarceration (WE)
- GS-107 Introduction to Gender and Sexuality Studies (WE)
- HIS-257 Native American History (WE)
- HIS-297 Women in America (WE)
- HIS-347 African American History (WE)
- PHL-128 Morality and Moral Controversies (WE)
- POL-185 Environmental Justice: Race, Class, Power and Sustainability (Wilderness Field Station)
- POL-350 U.S. Social Policy Process (WE)
- POL-375 The Constitution and Individual Liberties
- PSY-235 Abnormal Psychology
- PSY-255 Social Psychology
- REL-217 Religion in America (WE)
- SCJ-190 Topics in Social and Criminal Justice
- SCJ-2X7 Restorative Justice
- SCJ-220 Juvenile Delinquency and the Justice System
- SCJ-301 Criminal Law and the Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Amendments
- SCJ-390 Advanced Topics in Social and Criminal Justice
- SCJ-444 Independent Study in Social and Criminal Justice
- SCJ-494 Internship in Social and Criminal Justice
- SOC-247 Sociology of Race
- SOC-355 Deviant Behavior
- WSH-464 Washington Term Internship Seminar