a c a d e m i c p r o g r a m sCollege of Criminal Justice
Faculty :: Introduction :: Class Entrance Requirements :: Graduation Requirements :: Transfer Credit :: BS in Criminal Justice
JACK R. GREENE, PHD, Dean
Robert D. Croatti, AB, Associate Dean for Special Programs and Director of Alumni Affairs
John F. McDevitt, MPA, Associate Dean and Director for the Center of Criminal Justice Policy Research
Lester W. McCullough Jr., BA, Associate Dean for Administrative Services
Robert E. Fuller, MA, Assistant Dean for Student Services
Alison L. Moll, MEd, Academic Counselor
Sonya L. Wilder, MSEd, Senior Academic CounselorPROFESSORS
Donna M. Bishop, PhD
Simon I. Singer, PhDLIPMAN FAMILY PROFESSOR
James Alan Fox, PhDELMER V. H. AND EILEEN M. BROOKS TRUSTEE PROFESSOR
Peter K. Manning, PhDASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
Wallace W. Sherwood, LLMASSISTANT PROFESSORS
Jeb A. Booth, PhD Ni He, PhD
Cynthia Lum, PhD
Jennifer B. Robinson, PhD
Marc L. Swatt, PhD
William Terrill, PhD
Sean P. Varano, PhD
Geoff K. Ward, PhD
Richard P. Wiebe, JD, PhDSCHULMAN PROFESSOR
Harvey Burstein, JDVISITING PROFESSORS
Bridgette M. Baldwin, JD
Roderick L. Ireland, LLM, PhDPROFESSOR EMERITUS
Edith E. Flynn, PhDThe 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 of Criminal Justice prepares students for professional and research careers in criminal justice, criminology, and related fields by applying multidisciplinary and comparative social science to understand, predict, and explain crime and contribute to the development of public policy within urban communities. Using an active learning approach, the college seeks to develop its students intellectually and ethically, while providing them with a keen appreciation of the complexities of crime, and the public and private efforts to make communities safer and ensure justice.
The world of criminal justice is much more than the police officer, corrections official, or security guard. At the College of Criminal Justice, the boundaries of criminal justice have expanded beyond traditional views of the field—police, courts, corrections. Instead, criminal justice education today is about more than the criminal; it involves understanding the victim and the community: repairing harm, reducing fear, rebuilding safe communities, and assuring justice in spirit and act.
The College of Criminal Justice has had a long-standing attachment and commitment to improving justice system agencies, including private security. The college actively engages external partners in an ongoing conversation about research, community service, and salient policy questions. Part of this dialogue is supported by an ongoing program of applied and social science research. Much of this research focuses on evaluating existing government crime-control programs and policies to determine whether they work, as well as inquiries about the etiology and prevention of crime. In addition, much of our research examines the unintended consequences of policy: institutionalized racism, exclusion of certain groups, and so forth. In every case, the research conducted at Northeastern is approached with ethical sensitivity and scientific rigor.
Criminal justice, as a social science, began in the early part of the twentieth century. Nearly one hundred years old, criminal justice has blossomed as a science, in great part through the ingenuity of several notable scholars. The College of Criminal Justice is pleased to be home to many of the country’s preeminent contemporary scholars. The CCJ faculty regularly present at scholarly conferences and national and international seminars.
Students are required to maintain the following overall grade-point averages to advance to the next class rank and to graduate.
Sophomore 1.800 Middler 1.800 Junior 1.800 Senior 1.900 To graduate 2.000 Graduation Requirements
Degree candidates must complete all prescribed work, a total of 132 semester hours of credit. Students are also urged to meet the requirements of the Department of Cooperative Education.Transfer Credit
A student transferring from another college or university must be in residence at Northeastern at least 32 of the final 40 semester hours to receive a degree.
BS in Criminal Justice ENGLISH REQUIREMENT Complete the following course: ENG U111 College Writing 4 SH and one approved Advanced Writing in the Disciplines course. A grade of C or better is required in both courses. DIVERSITY Requirements satisfied by CJ U102. CRIMINAL JUSTICE CORE REQUIREMENTS General Education Courses Complete the following four courses: CS U101 Computer Science and Its Applications 4 SH MTH U115 Applications of Algebra 4 SH PSY U101 Foundations of Psychology 4 SH SOC U101 Introduction to Sociology 4 SH Social Science Course Choose one course from the following list: ECN U101 Economic Problems and Perspectives 4 SH HST U130 Introduction to American History 4 SH POL U150 American Government 4 SH Science and Mathematics Course Choose one course from the following departments: BIO, CHM, CS, GEO, MTH, or PHY. Humanities Course Choose one course from the following departments: ASL, CMN, ENG, LIN, PHL, or SLA. CRIMINAL JUSTICE—MAJOR Introduction to College Complete the following course: CJ U100 College: An Introduction 1 SH
Required Courses Complete the following six courses: CJ U101 Introduction to Criminal Justice 4 SH CJ U102 Ethics, Values, and Diversity 4 SH CJ U110 Criminal Due Process 4 SH CJ U120 Criminology 4 SH CJ U380 Criminal Justice Research Methods 4 SH CJ U382 Criminal Justice Statistics 4 SH Integrated Learning Core Complete the following three courses: CJ U290 Co-op Integration Seminar 1 1 SH CJ U390 Co-op Integration Seminar 2 1 SH CJ U690 Co-op Integration Seminar 3 1 SH Senior Capstone Complete the following course: CJ U799 Senior Capstone Seminar 4 SH CRIMINAL JUSTICE—ELECTIVES Concentration Electives Choose two courses from the following list: CJ U310 Criminal Law 4 SH CJ U330 Corrections 4 SH CJ U340 Security 4 SH CJ U350 Policing 4 SH CJ U360 Juvenile Justice 4 SH System-Wide Electives Choose one course from the following list: CJ U500 Gender, Crime, and Justice 4 SH CJ U502 Race, Crime, and Justice 4 SH CJ U506 Criminal Justice Organization 4 SH and Management CJ U508 Crime Prevention 4 SH Advanced Electives Choose four courses from the following list: POLICING CJ U520 Communities and Crime 4 SH CJ U550 Police Strategy 4 SH CJ U555 Forensic Science 4 SH CJ U650 Seminar in Policing 4 SH SECURITY CJ U540 Security Management, Supervision 4 SH CJ U576 Corporate and White-Collar Crime 4 SH CJ U640 Seminar in Security 4 SH LEGAL STUDIES CJ U510 Juvenile Law 4 SH CJ U512 Legal Philosophy 4 SH CJ U515 Courts and Sentencing 4 SH CJ U518 Law and Psychology 4 SH CJ U610 Seminar in Law 4 SH CRIMINOLOGY CJ U518 Law and Psychology 4 SH CJ U522 Comparative Criminal Justice 4 SH CJ U525 Psychology of Crime 4 SH
CJ U570 Criminal Violence 4 SH CJ U572 Youth Gangs 4 SH CJ U574 Organized Crime 4 SH CJ U575 Political Crime and Terrorism 4 SH CJ U576 Corporate and White-Collar Crime 4 SH CJ U578 Victims of Crime 4 SH CJ U600 Seminar in Criminal Justice 4 SH CJ U620 Seminar in Criminology 4 SH CJ U680 Seminar in Research 4 SH CORRECTIONS CJ U515 Courts and Sentencing 4 SH CJ U530 Community-Based Corrections 4 SH CJ U535 Correctional Intervention 4 SH CJ U578 Victims of Crime 4 SH CJ U630 Seminar in Corrections 4 SH JUVENILE CJ U510 Juvenile Law 4 SH CJ U520 Communities and Crime 4 SH CJ U530 Community-Based Corrections 4 SH CJ U535 Correctional Intervention 4 SH CJ U570 Criminal Violence 4 SH CJ U572 Youth Gangs 4 SH CJ U660 Seminar in Juvenile Justice 4 SH CRIMINAL JUSTICE SEQUENCE REQUIREMENT
Must complete four courses from the same department and five electives outside of criminal justice.GENERAL ELECTIVES
Additional courses taken beyond college and major course requirements to satisfy graduation credit requirements.COOPERATIVE EDUCATION
UNIVERSITY-WIDE REQUIREMENTS
132 total semester hours required Minimum 2.000 GPA required{Back to top}
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