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College of Criminal Justice

The College of Criminal Justice was established in 1967 as one of the first professional schools of its kind. Since its founding, the college has become a leading force in education, research, and policy-making in both the public and private sectors of the criminal justice field.

The college has a unified undergraduate major, leading to a Bachelor of Science degree in criminal justice, which comprehensively covers the field of criminal justice across both the public and private domains. Building on a solid foundation of required courses focusing on law, criminology, administration of justice, and research tools, the curriculum allows students to tailor their elective coursework, in such areas as homicide, terrorism, victims, juvenile justice, security, courts, and corrections, to suit their own professional interests. In addition, students take a variety of courses in other parts of the University, in such topic areas as computer science, English, math, history, economics, political science, sociology, and psychology.

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The combined five-year academic and cooperative education program allows students to concentrate in one of three areas: policing and security, legal studies, and criminology and corrections. Students may also elect not to specialize, but instead to span the broadest possible coverage of the field.

In the policing and security emphasis students learn firsthand the latest developments in policing in the United States, such as community policing, and gain an understanding of the field of security from a business rather than a law enforcement perspective.

The legal studies concentration teaches students how to analyze the mechanics of law and the legal process and to examine the historical and philosophical foundations of our legal system. Students who concentrate on legal studies are well-prepared for law school.

In the criminology and corrections concentration students investigate the causes of crime and assess various correctional responses to criminal offending. This program is viewed as a stepping-stone to advanced graduate study and to employment in the corrections area.

Co-op provides opportunities in the full range of career settings, including parole or probation offices, law firms, police departments, private security agencies, public or private institutions, social and government agencies, prisons, and planning and evaluation units. These career-oriented experiences help students to better understand the theory and research presented in their classes.

The college maintains close ties to criminal justice agencies in the community, such as the Boston Police Department and the Office of the Attorney General, and hosts the Justice George Lewis Ruffin Society, an organization of minority criminal justice professionals dedicated to expanding minority involvement and leadership in the criminal justice system. In addition, the college cooperates with the mayor's office and a number of private corporations in helping to run various community-based anticrime programs. The college faculty also has a strong voice and participates actively in research and policy-making at a national and international level. In addition to a variety of major research projects, the college houses the Journal of Quantitative Criminology, a leading international journal of research in criminology and criminal justice. See course descriptions for more information.

Class Entrance Requirements

Students are required to maintain the following overall quality-point averages to advance to the next class rank and to graduate.

Sophomore	1.8
Middler	1.8
Junior	1.8
Senior	1.9
To graduate	2.0

Graduation Requirements

Degree candidates must complete all prescribed work, a total of 176 quarter hours of credit. Students are also urged to meet the requirements of the Department of Cooperative Education.

No student transferring from another college or university is eligible to receive a degree until at least one year of academic work immediately preceding graduation has been completed at Northeastern.

Bachelor of Science Curriculum

Quarter 1	CJ 1001, Critical Issues in Criminal Justice 1; CJ 1151, Introduction to Law and the Legal Process 1; ENG 1110, College Writing 1; and PSY 1111, Foundations of Psychology 1.
Quarter 2	CJ 1002, Critical Issues in Criminal Justice 2; COM 1105, Computer Science and Its Applications; POL 1110, Introduction to Politics; PSY 1112, Foundations in Psychology 2; and SOC 1110, Introduction to Sociology.
Quarter 3	CJ 1101, Administration of Criminal Justice; CMN 1116, Public Speaking; ENG 1111, College Writing 2; and POL 1111, Introduction to American Government.
Quarter 4	CJ 1201, Criminology; one criminal justice diversity requirement; one math/science requirement 1; and one history requirement 1.
Quarter 5	CJ 1251, Introduction to Criminal Law; ECN 1000, Economic Problems and Perspectives; POL 1318, State and Local Government; and one history requirement 2.
Quarter 6	CJ 1252, Criminal Due Process; CJ 1453, Criminal Justice Research Methods; ENG 1350, Writing for the Professions; and one math/science requirement 2.
Quarter 7	CJ 1454, Criminal Justice Statistics; one criminal justice elective; one nonÐcriminal justice elective; and one philosophy requirement.
Quarters 8Ð11	32 quarter hours of criminal justice electives and 32 quarter hours of nonÐcriminal justice requirements.