Justice Studies Departmental Requirements

Justice Studies Departmental Requirements



NOTE: A minimum GPA of 2.50 must be maintained before being allowed to take upper-division JS courses.

Required Courses (33 credits required from this section), listed in order to be taken

Course #	Course Title	Credits	Semester Taken

JS 101	Introduction to the Justice System	3 cr

Eng 209	Inquiry Based Writing	3 cr

Soc 101	Introduction to Sociology	3 cr

Stat 251	Principles of Statistics	3 cr

JS 320 or	Police and Society and Justice* (S)	3 cr
JS 332	Corrections* (F)

JS 422 or	Inequalities in the Justice System* (S)	3 cr
Soc 427	Racial and Ethnic Relations* (F)

Soc 310	Methods of Social Research	3 cr

Soc 330 or	Juvenile Delinquency* (F)	3 cr
Soc 331	Criminology* (S)

PolSci 468 or	Civil Liberties*	3 cr
PolSci 469	The Judicial Process*

JS 425 or	Criminal Law (F)	3 cr
PolSci 467	Constitutional Law* (F)

JS 401	Justice Policy Issues (Senior Year)	3 cr



*Any of the above courses marked with an asterisk may be counted as an elective
if it has not been counted as a required course for the Justice Studies Major.

Justice Studies Departmental Electives


Electives: Choose 27 credits from the following courses. A minimum of 18 elective credits must be upper division courses (300 or 400), excluding internship credits. (If JS 498 is taken for 6 credits then only 21 credits of electives are required).

			Semester Taken:
AgEc 477	Law, Ethics, and the Environment	3 cr
Anth 451	Forensic Anthropology	3 cr
JS 150 WSU	Organization Environment of Criminal Justice	3 cr
JS 204	Special Topic (to be established with professor)	1-6 cr
JS 330 WSU	Crime Control Policies	3 cr
JS 333	White Collar Crime	3 cr
JS 404	Special Topic (to be established with professor)	1-6 cr
JS 405 WSU	Comparative Criminal Justice Systems	3 cr
JS 420 WSU	Law of Evidence and Criminal Procedure	3 cr
JS 430	Juvenile Justice	3 cr
JS 498	Internship (to be established with professor)	3 cr
H & S 311	Acquaintance Rape	3 cr
Phil 470	Philosophy of Law	3 cr
PoliSci 275	American State and Local Government	3 cr
PoliSci 451	Public Administration	3 cr
PoliSci 452	Administrative Law and Regulation	3 cr
PoliSci 454	Public Organization Theory	3 cr
PoliSci 460	Law and Society	3 cr
PoliSci 487	Political Violence and Revolution	3 cr
Psych 305	Developmental Psychology	3 cr
Psych 311	Abnormal Psychology	3 cr
Psych 320	Introduction to Social Psychology	3 cr
Soc 230	Social Problems	3 cr
Soc 301	Intro Diversity/Stratification	3 cr
Soc 314	Society and Self	3 cr
Soc 320	Sociology of Substance Abuse	3 cr
Soc 427	Race and Ethnic Relations