Criminal Justice, BS

To address crime, delinquency, law, and social control effectively and justly, the criminal justice system requires college-educated professionals across diverse fields who think analytically and act compassionately. The B.S. in Criminal Justice provides two concentrations, including the Social Science Concentration for undergraduates seeking an interdisciplinary liberal arts program integrated with criminal justice studies.Offered through the Department of Sociology, this concentration blends foundational liberal arts courses in sociology, anthropology, political science, and psychology with specialized criminal justice topics such as theory and practice, forensics, juvenile delinquency, and law and social inequality. Courses draw from university-wide resources, including the Gordon F. Derner Institute of Advanced Psychological Studies, the School of Social Work, and the Departments of Anthropology, Political Science, and Sociology in the College of Arts and Sciences.