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Criminal Justice is available as a major on the B.S. degree and as a minor on the B.A. and B.S. degrees.

The Criminal Justice Major at TCU

General Requirements: Please note that the Criminal Justice Program recently revised its Bachelor's of Science in Criminal Justice degree general requirements. These changes were made to ensure that we can produce graduates who are  academically trained and ethically prepared for life beyond TCU.

Students who declared Criminal Justice as their major prior to the beginning of the Fall 2006 semester will operate under the earlier set of requirements (click here for requirements); those declaring Criminal Justice their major beginning Fall 2006 must meet a different set of requirements (click here for requirements). 

• A total of 124 semester hours is now required for the B.S. in Criminal Justice degree, including 58 in residency at TCU.

• A foreign language is not required.

• The major now requires 42 hours (i.e., 14 courses) in Criminal Justice courses at the 30000 or above level, as well as 3 hours in associated courses.
  
  42 semester hours in Criminal Justice (CRJU) must include:
  
  I. Required Criminal Justice Courses (21 hours)
  CRJU 20413 Introduction to Criminal Justice
  CRJU 20423 Critical Issues in Crime and Justice
  CRJU 20873 Criminal Justice Research Methods I
  CRJU 20883 Criminal Justice Research Methods II
  CRJU 30313 Criminology
  CRJU 30423 Courts and Judicial Procedure
  CRJU 40963 Internship in Criminal Justice
  
  II. Law Enforcement (3 hours)
  CRJU 30613 Police in a Free Society
  CRJU 30633 Federal Law Enforcement
  
  III. Law (3 hours)
  CRJU 30433 Criminal Law
  CRJU 30903 Law and Society
  
  IV. Corrections (3 hours)
  CRJU 30393 Sociology of Corrections
  CRJU 30643 Community Corrections
  
  V. Diversity (3 hours)
  CRJU 30833 Women in the Criminal Justice System
  CRJU 30843 Race Issues in Criminal Justice
  CRJU 40463 Juvenile Delinquency
  CRJU 40503 White Collar Crime
  
  VI. Electives (9 hours)
  
  VII. Associated Requirement (3 hours)
  SOCI 20213 Introductory Sociology
  SOCI 20223 Social Problems
   

The Criminal Justice Minor at TCU

The CJ minor requires eighteen credit hours (i.e., 6 courses):

Required core CRJU courses: 6 semester hours

CRJU 20413 Introduction to Criminal Justice

CRJU 30313 Criminology

+ 4 additional CRJU courses (your choice):  12 semester hours

NB: Transfer students may receive a maximum of 9 hours credit in the major for Criminal Justice courses taken at accredited colleges and universities. A maximum of 6 hours may be counted toward the minor. The Director of the Criminal Justice Program will determine the applicability of such coursework to the program's degree requirements.

Click here to learn more about all the Criminal Justice courses we offer.

You may also visit individual faculty pages for more details about specific courses.