Criminal Justice Studies Curriculum
Bachelor of Arts in Criminal Justice Studies (36 Units Minimum)
Core Courses (18 Units)
| Code | Title | Units |
|---|---|---|
| C J 200 | Construction of Crime and Justice | 3 |
| C J 230 | Crime, Data and Analysis | 3 |
| C J 300 | Criminal Justice: A Cross-Disciplinary Perspective | 4 |
| C J 330GW | Research Methods in Criminal Justice - GWAR | 4 |
| C J 680 | Field Course in Criminal Justice | 4 |
Elective Courses (18 to 22 Units)
Take four courses from the following:
- AA S 595: Asian American Communities and Public Policy (3 units)
- AFRS 375: Law and the Black Community (3 units)
- AFRS 376: Government, the Constitution and Black Citizens (3 units)
- AIS 330: American Indian Law (3 units)
- AIS 460: Power and Politics in American Indian History (3 units)
- COMM 503: Gender and Communication (4 units)
- COMM 525: Sexualities and Communication (4 units)
- COMM 531: Conflict Resolution (4 units)
- COMM 541: Critical Approaches to Culture and Communication (4 units)
- COMM 543: Dialogues Across Differences (4 units)
- COMM 564: Issues in Free Speech (4 units)
- COMM 571: The Rhetoric of Terrorism (4 units)
- COMM 573: The Rhetoric of Criminality and Punishment (4 units)
- COUN 630: Legal Center Training I (3 units)
- COUN 631: Legal Center Training II (3 units)
- C J 320: Literature in Criminal Justice - Crime Control, Due Process and Class Justice (3 units)
- C J 323: Ethics in Criminal Justice (3 units)
- C J 335: Legal Writing and Research (4 units)
- C J 340: Comparative Criminal Justice (4 units)
- C J 400: Police and Public Policy (3 units)
- C J 401: Criminal Profiling (3 units)
- C J 405: Organized Crime (3 units)
- C J 410: Crime Scene Investigation (3 units)
- C J 420: Introduction to Forensic Science (3 units)
- C J 435/LTNS 430: Race, Crime and Justice (3 units)
- C J 450: Jails and Prisons (3 units)
- C J 451: The Architecture of Incarceration (3 units)
- C J 452/SOC 451: Criminological Theory (4 units)
- C J 460: Community Corrections and Sentencing (3 units)
- C J 461/I R 361: Terrorism and Covert Political Warfare (4 units)
- C J 470/SOC 452: Juvenile Justice (4 units)
- C J 471: Contemporary Issues in Juvenile Justice (3 units)
- C J 475: Intervention Policies in Juvenile Justice (3 units)
- C J 480: California Corrections System (3 units)
- C J/LTNS 485: Latina/o Youth, Crime and Justice (3 units)
- C J 490: Immigration, Criminalization and Justice (3 units)
- C J 501: Criminal Law (3 units)
- C J 502: Criminal Procedure (3 units)
- C J 505: International Criminal Law (4 units)
- C J 510: Analysis of the Felon in Society (3 units)
- C J 515: Extremism as Crime (3 units)
- C J 525: Global Restorative Justice and Corrections (3 units)
- C J 530: Geographies of Social Control and Urban Diversity (3 units)
- C J 535: Alternatives to Criminalization (3 units)
- C J 550: School Violence and Discipline (3 units)
- C J 570: Urban Violence (3 units)
- C J 600: Youth Gangs in Community Context (3 units)
- C J 605: Criminalization of Gender and Sexuality (3 units)
- ECON 515: Economics of Crime and Justice (3 units)
- ECON 516: Law and Economics (3 units)
- HIST 465: American Ethnic and Racial Relations II: 1890-Present (3 units)
- HIST 470: The U.S. Constitution to 1896 (3 units)
- HIST 471: The U.S. Constitution Since 1896 (3 units)
- I R 360: Intelligence and Intelligence Agencies (4 units)
- I R/PLSI 362: Domestic Politics and U.S. Foreign Policy (4 units)
- I R/PHIL 435: Human Rights in Global Perspective (3 units)
- I R 453: Women and Media in International Relations (4 units)
- I R/PLSI 459: Refugees in Global Perspective (4 units)
- LABR 650: Labor Law: An Introduction and Overview (3 units)
- LTNS 415: Economic Progress of Latinos in the U.S. (3 units)
- LTNS 470: Latina/o Immigration to the U.S. (3 units)
- PHIL 335: Law and Society (3 units)
- PHIL 378: Philosophy of Criminal Law (3 units)
- PHIL 379: Philosophy of Constitutional Interpretation (3 units)
- PHIL 380: Philosophy of Law (3 units)
- PLSI 478: Judicial Process (4 units)
- PLSI/USP 512: Urban Politics and Community Power (4 units)
- PLSI 552: Individual Rights and the Constitution (4 units)
- PSY 472: Introduction to Legal Psychology (3 units)
- PSY 475: Psychology of Policing (3 units)
- PSY 547: Social Conflict and Conflict Resolution (3 units)
- RRS 330: Comparative Race and Ethnicity in the U.S.: Class, Gender and Nation (3 units)
- RRS 571: Women, Class and Race (3 units)
- SOC 362: The Social Construction of Deviance and Conformity (4 units)
- SOC 455: Punishment and Social Control (3 units)
- SOC 457: Sociology of Law (4 units)
- SXS 455: Sex, Power and Politics (3 units)
- SXS 569/PHIL 455: Sex and the Law (3 units)
- WGS 513: Gender, War and Militarism (3 units)
- WGS 514: Women and the Prison Industrial Complex (3 units)
- WGS 554: Gender and Global Migration (3 units)
Additional Information
To graduate, you must complete at least 30 upper-division units. This includes major requirements, General Education and electives. If your major courses don’t meet this total, you’ll need to take additional upper-division classes to reach the minimum.
Up to a total of 6 transfer units in the following Criminal Justice courses completed at a community college may be counted toward meeting the "general electives" requirements for the major:
- Introduction to Criminal Justice
- Concepts of Criminal Law; for applicable courses, go to the ASSIST website
As a Criminal Justice Studies major, you must complete at least 12 units of Complementary Studies from courses outside the major department. Cross-listed courses don’t count.
If you’re completing a second major or a minor, this requirement is automatically fulfilled.
You can also meet this requirement by working with your Online Success Coach to choose 12 units of courses that support your goals. With approval, these courses may also count toward your major.
If you earned an AA-T or AS-T degree, talk to your Online Success Coach to see how your transfer and SFSU units can help you meet this requirement and stay on track to graduate within 60 units.
Complete the following General Education requirements:
- Oral Communication (LD, 3 units, Area A1)
- Written English Communication (LD, 3 units, Area A2)
- Critical Thinking (LD, 3 units, Area A3)
- Physical Science (LD, 3 units, Area B1)
- Life Science (LD, 3 units, Area B2)
- Lab Science (LD, 1 unit, Area B3)
- Mathematics/Quantitative Reasoning (LD, 3 units, Area B4)
- Arts (LD, 3 units, Area C1)
- Humanities (LD, 3 units, Area C2)
- Arts or Humanities (LD, 3 units, Area C1 or C2)
- Social Sciences (LD, 3 units, Area D1)
- Social Sciences: US History (LD, 3 units, Area D2)
- Social Sciences: US and CA Government (LD, 3 units, Area D3)
- Lifelong Learning and Self-Development (LLD) (LD, 3 units, Area E)
- Physical and/or Life Science (UD, 3 units, Area UD-B)
- Arts and/or Humanities (UD, 3 units, Area UD-C)
- Social Sciences (Upper-Division) (UD, 3 units, Area UD-D)
Note: LD = Lower-Division. UD = Upper-Division.
SFSU Studies
Courses that meet SFSU Studies requirements may also count toward General Education, your major, your minor or electives.
- American Ethnic and Racial Minorities (LD or UD, 3 units, AERM)
- Environmental Sustainability (LD or UD, 3 units, ES)
- Global Perspectives (LD or UD, 3 units, GP)
- Social Justice (LD or UD, 3 units, SJ)
Note: LD = Lower-Division. UD = Upper-Division.
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