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
| Code | Title | Hours |
|---|---|---|
| Criminal Justice Core Requirements | ||
| CRIM 1100 | Introduction to Criminal Justice | 4 |
| CRIM 2100 | 4 | |
| CRIM 2200 | 4 | |
| CRIM 3600 | Criminal Justice Research Methods | 4 |
| Thematic Elective | ||
| Complete one of the following: | 4 | |
| The Death Penalty | ||
| Human Trafficking | ||
| Corruption, Integrity, and Accountability | ||
| Crime, Media, and Politics | ||
| Survey Elective | ||
| Complete one of the following: | 4 | |
| Criminal Violence | ||
| Global Criminology | ||
| Organized Crime | ||
CRIM 3200 | ||
CRIM 3300 | ||
CRIM 3400 | ||
CRIM 3500 | ||
| System-Wide Elective | ||
| Complete one of the following: | 4 | |
CRIM 4010 | ||
CRIM 4020 | ||
| Crime Prevention | ||
| Computer Science | ||
| CS 1100 | Computer Science and Its Applications | 4 |
| Mathematics | ||
| Complete one of the following: | 4 | |
| Mathematical Thinking | ||
| Calculus for Business and Economics | ||
| Calculus 1 | ||
| Electives | ||
| Complete two courses in the following range: | 8 | |
CRIM 4000 to CRIM 5999 | ||
Psychology Requirements
| Code | Title | Hours |
|---|---|---|
| Introductory Course | ||
| PSYC 1101 | Foundations of Psychology | 4 |
| Statistics | ||
| PSYC 2320 | Statistics in Psychological Research | 4 |
| Personality/Social Bases of Behavior | ||
| Complete two of the following: | 8 | |
| Personality | ||
| Social Psychology | ||
| Developmental Psychology | ||
| Abnormal Psychology | ||
| Biological/Cognitive Bases of Behavior | ||
| Complete two of the following: | 8 | |
| Learning and Motivation | ||
or PSYC 3451 | Learning Principles and Behavior Analysis | |
| Sensation and Perception | ||
| Biological Psychology | ||
| Psychology of Language | ||
| Cognition | ||
| Research Experience | ||
| Complete one of the following: | 4 | |
| Laboratory in Research Design | ||
| Laboratory in Biological Psychology | ||
| Laboratory in Psycholinguistics | ||
| Laboratory in Cognition | ||
| Laboratory in Social Psychology | ||
| Laboratory in Personality | ||
| Laboratory in Sensation and Perception | ||
| Laboratory in Affective Science | ||
| Laboratory in Life-Span Emotional Development | ||
| Psychology Seminar | ||
| Complete one of the following: | 4 | |
| Seminar in Behavioral Modification | ||
| Seminar in Biological Psychology | ||
| Seminar in Psycholinguistics | ||
| Seminar in Cognition | ||
| Seminar in Personality | ||
| Seminar in Social Psychology | ||
| Seminar in Clinical Psychology | ||
| Seminar in Sensation and Perception | ||
| Seminar in Cognitive Neuroscience | ||
| Seminar in Developmental Psychology | ||
| Seminar in Social and Affective Neuroscience | ||
| Electives | ||
| Complete two PSYC courses. | 8 | |
Integrative Requirement
| Code | Title | Hours |
|---|---|---|
| CRIM 3040 | Psychology of Crime | 4 |
Criminal Justice and Psychology Combined-Major Credit Requirement
Complete 84 semester hours in the major.
Program Requirement
128 total semester hours required