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Nov 21, 2024
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2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog
Criminal Justice, B.S.
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Criminal Justice Administration
615-494-7751
Joshua Harms, interim chair
Joshua.Harms@mtsu.edu
Courses in the Department of Criminal Justice Administration provide students with a well-rounded curriculum designed to meet the academic needs of those seeking careers in law enforcement, courts, corrections, and homeland security as well as those already employed in the criminal justice system and related agencies.
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Degree Requirements
| True Blue Core (TBC) |
41 hours |
| Major Requirements |
36 hours |
| Major Core |
15 hours |
| Major Electives |
21 hours |
| Minor |
15-18 hours |
| Electives |
25-28 hours |
| TOTAL |
120 hours |
True Blue Core (41 hours)
True Blue Core (TBC) requirements (shown in curricular listings below) include courses in the Foundational Skills areas of Written Communication (WC), Information Literacy (Info Lit), Non-Written Communication (NWC), and Quantitative Literacy (Quant Lit). Knowledge Domains include Human Society and Social Relationships (HSSR), Scientific Literacy (Sci Lit), Creativity and Cultural Expression (CCE), and History and Civic Learning (HCL), which include Discovery and Explorations categories. Students must choose at least one course from each Discovery category.
Major Requirements (36 hours)
Major Core (15 hours)
In order to graduate, all Criminal Justice majors must earn a grade of at least a C (2.00) in all of the following core CJA courses:
Major Electives (21 hours)
- Major electives (15 hours must be upper-division) 21 credit hours
Curriculum: Criminal Justice
Following is a suggested pattern of study; however, consultation with the assigned advisor is necessary before each registration.
Freshman
- CJA 2100 - Criminal Theory 3 credit hours
- CJA 2200 - Prevention and Control of Crime 3 credit hours
- Written Communication 3 credit hours
- Information Literacy 3 credit hours
- History and Civic Learning 3 credit hours
- Human Society and Social Relationships 3 credit hours
- Creativity and Cultural Expression 6 credit hours
- Quantitative Literacy 3 credit hours
- General elective 3 credit hours
Sophomore
- CJA 2400 - The Judicial Process 3 credit hours
- CJA 2600 - Corrections 3 credit hours
- Non-Written Communication 3 credit hours
- Creativity and Cultural Expression Literature 3 credit hours
- Scientific Literacy 8 credit hours
- Human Society and Social Relationships 3 credit hours
- CJA elective 3 credit hours
- General elective 3 credit hours
- Minor course 3 credit hours
Senior
- Minor course 3 credit hours
- CJA electives (upper division) 9 credit hours
- General electives 13 credit hours
- Minor course/general elective 3 credit hours
NOTE:
*Prerequisites: Junior or senior standing and successful completion (at least a C) of the first core courses: CJA 2200 , CJA 2400 , and CJA 2600 .
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