Criminal Justice Major

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The criminal justice major consists of fifteen courses (45 credit hours) within the department. In addition, the major establishes certain distributional requirements outside the department, and it provides for six elective courses which students may use as they choose. The complete course of study is presented in the Courses of Study section of this catalog.

All undergraduate courses taken at The Citadel with a subject prefix of CRMJ will count towards the major GPA.

Major Academic Map

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Core Courses

The criminal justice core curriculum consists of four courses (12 credit hours) to broadly introduce the student to the field. These core courses for the major are as follows:

CRMJ 201 - Introduction to Criminal Justice Credit Hours: 3
CRMJ 202 - Criminology Credit Hours: 3
CRMJ 270 - Police Systems & Practices Credit Hours: 3
CRMJ 280 - Corrections Credit Hours: 3

Clusters

Beyond the core courses, each student majoring in criminal justice must choose 11 additional courses (33 credit hours) to be distributed among two clusters of courses, for a total of 45 credit hours. Courses have been clustered as follows: Cluster A (8 courses, 24 credit hours) includes advanced criminal justice coursework; Cluster B (3 courses, 9 credit hours) includes criminal justice-related/collateral courses. (General Electives, which may also be selected from our criminal justice offerings, may take the total higher at the student’s discretion.) The courses offered in each cluster are as follows:

Cluster A

(Any 8 CRMJ 300- or 400-level advanced courses beyond the core requirement, 24 credit hours):

CRMJ 330 - Emergency Management Credit Hours: 3
CRMJ 331 - Cyber Investigations Credit Hours: 3
CRMJ 332 - Comparative Counter-Terrorism Credit Hours: 3
CRMJ 333 - Immigration and Security Credit Hours: 3
CRMJ 334 - Introduction to Crime Mapping Credit Hours: 3
CRMJ 335 - Law & Society Credit Hours: 3
CRMJ 371 - Criminal Law Credit Hours: 3
CRMJ 372 - Critical Issues in Law Enforcement Credit Hours: 3
CRMJ 373 - Criminal Evidence Credit Hours: 3
CRMJ 374 - Theories of Terrorism Credit Hours: 3
CRMJ 375 - Criminal Justice Agency Administration Credit Hours: 3
CRMJ 376 - Transnational Crime Credit Hours: 3
CRMJ 381 - Organized Crime Credit Hours: 3
CRMJ 382 - Drugs and Crime Credit Hours: 3
CRMJ 383 - Comparative Criminal Justice Systems Credit Hours: 3
CRMJ 384 - International Crime Credit Hours: 3
CRMJ 385 - Juvenile Delinquency Credit Hours: 3
CRMJ 386 - Research Methods in Criminal Justice Credit Hours: 3
CRMJ 387 - Criminal Investigation Credit Hours: 3
CRMJ 388 - White Collar Crime Credit Hours: 3
CRMJ 389 - Criminal Justice in Latin America Credit Hours: 3
CRMJ 390 - Victimology Credit Hours: 3
CRMJ 391 - Criminalistics Credit Hours: 3
CRMJ 392 - Cyber Crime Credit Hours: 3
CRMJ 393 - Homicide Credit Hours: 3
CRMJ 401 - Cyber, Ethics, & Policy Credit Hours: 3
CRMJ 465 - Special Topics in Criminal Justice Credit Hours: 3
CRMJ 470 - Ethics Credit Hours: 3
CRMJ 471 - Psychology of Crime Credit Hours: 3
CRMJ 472 - Crime Prevention Credit Hours: 3
CRMJ 473 - Biology and Crime Credit Hours: 3
CRMJ 498 - Independent Study Credit Hours: 3
CRMJ 499 - Internship Credit Hours: 3
INTL 210 - Homeland Security Credit Hours: 3
INTL 310 - Intelligence Collection Systems Credit Hours: 3
INTL 311 - US Intelligence Successes and Failures Credit Hours: 3

Cluster B

(3 courses, 9 credit hours):

Choose three courses numbered 200 or above in any combination of the following disciplines: Anthropology, History, Philosophy, Political Science, Psychology, or Sociology. Additionally, FNAR 307 - Forensic Photography, CSCI 227 - Principles and Practices of Cybersecurity and one Modern Language 301 course (FREN 301 , GERM 301 , or SPAN 301 ) may be taken as Cluster B courses.