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Criminal Justice and Psychology, BS

2021-2022 Edition

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This combined major educates students in criminal justice and psychology and the interface between the two disciplines. The scope and sequence of psychology courses provide students with a foundation in the interdisciplinary science of psychology, including the biological and psychosocial bases of behavior, learning, personality, and cognition. Criminal justice courses provide a foundation for understanding individual and systemic aspects of criminology and criminal justice. Students completing this program should be able to understand the relationships between the fields, as they relate to understanding and addressing criminal behavior.

Complete all courses listed below unless otherwise indicated. Also complete any corequisite labs, recitations, clinicals, or tools courses where specified and complete any additional courses needed beyond specific college and major requirements to satisfy graduation credit requirements.

University-Wide Requirements

All undergraduate students are required to complete the University-Wide Requirements.

NUpath Requirements

All undergraduate students are required to complete the NUpath Requirements.

Experiential Liberal Arts

All undergraduate students in the College of Social Sciences and Humanities are required to complete the Experiential Liberal Arts Requirement.

Criminal Justice Requirements

Course List
Code Title Hours
Criminal Justice Core Requirements
CRIM 1100Introduction to Criminal Justice4
CRIM 21004
CRIM 22004
CRIM 3600Criminal Justice Research Methods4
Thematic Elective
Complete one of the following:4
CRIM 1300
The Death Penalty
CRIM 1400
Human Trafficking
CRIM 1500
Corruption, Integrity, and Accountability
CRIM 1700
Crime, Media, and Politics
Survey Elective
Complete one of the following:4
CRIM 3010
Criminal Violence
CRIM 3030
Global Criminology
CRIM 3050
Organized Crime
CRIM 3200
CRIM 3300
CRIM 3400
CRIM 3500
System-Wide Elective
Complete one of the following:4
CRIM 4010
CRIM 4020
CRIM 4040
Crime Prevention
Computer Science
CS 1100Computer Science and Its Applications4
Mathematics
Complete one of the following:4
MATH 1215
Mathematical Thinking
MATH 1231
Calculus for Business and Economics
MATH 1241
Calculus 1
Electives
Complete two courses in the following range:8
CRIM 4000 to CRIM 5999

Psychology Requirements

Course List
Code Title Hours
Introductory Course
PSYC 1101Foundations of Psychology4
Statistics
PSYC 2320Statistics in Psychological Research4
Personality/Social Bases of Behavior
Complete two of the following:8
PSYC 3400
Personality
PSYC 3402
Social Psychology
PSYC 3404
Developmental Psychology
PSYC 3406
Abnormal Psychology
Biological/Cognitive Bases of Behavior
Complete two of the following:8
PSYC 3450
Learning and Motivation
or PSYC 3451
Learning Principles and Behavior Analysis
PSYC 3452
Sensation and Perception
PSYC 3458
Biological Psychology
PSYC 3464
Psychology of Language
PSYC 3466
Cognition
Research Experience
Complete one of the following:4
PSYC 4600
Laboratory in Research Design
PSYC 4606
Laboratory in Biological Psychology
PSYC 4610
Laboratory in Psycholinguistics
PSYC 4612
Laboratory in Cognition
PSYC 4614
Laboratory in Social Psychology
PSYC 4616
Laboratory in Personality
PSYC 4622
Laboratory in Sensation and Perception
PSYC 4624
Laboratory in Affective Science
PSYC 4626
Laboratory in Life-Span Emotional Development
Psychology Seminar
Complete one of the following:4
PSYC 4654
Seminar in Behavioral Modification
PSYC 4656
Seminar in Biological Psychology
PSYC 4658
Seminar in Psycholinguistics
PSYC 4660
Seminar in Cognition
PSYC 4662
Seminar in Personality
PSYC 4664
Seminar in Social Psychology
PSYC 4666
Seminar in Clinical Psychology
PSYC 4668
Seminar in Sensation and Perception
PSYC 4674
Seminar in Cognitive Neuroscience
PSYC 4676
Seminar in Developmental Psychology
PSYC 4678
Seminar in Social and Affective Neuroscience
Electives
Complete two PSYC courses.8

Integrative Requirement

Course List
Code Title Hours
CRIM 3040Psychology of Crime4

Criminal Justice and Psychology Combined-Major Credit Requirement

Complete 84 semester hours in the major.

Program Requirement

128 total semester hours required

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