Criminal Justice Major, Bachelor of Arts (BA)
Note: two years of a single high school foreign language or one year of a single college-level foreign language is required.
Required courses in the following program may have prerequisites. Reference the course descriptions for clarification.
| Required Introduction Course | ||
| CRIM 300 | INTRODUCTION TO THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM | 5 |
| Foundation Courses | ||
| CRIM 330 | SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH METHOD | 5 |
| or SOCI 357 | METHOD FOR SOCIAL RESEARCH | |
| SOCI 301 | SURVEY OF CRIMINOLOGY | 5 |
| SOCI/CRIM 356 | INTRODUCTION TO SOCIAL STATISTICS | 5 |
| or CSBS 320 | STATISTICS FOR THE SOCIAL SCIENCES | |
| Disciplinary Core Courses | ||
| CRIM 340 | ETHICS IN CRIMINAL JUSTICE | 5 |
| or PHIL 212 | INTRODUCTORY ETHICS | |
| PSYC 302 | ABNORMAL PSYCHOLOGY | 5 |
| Recommended Electives–choose 40 credits approved by a department advisor. | 40 | |
| SURVEY OF ALCOHOL/DRUG PROBLEMS | ||
| CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEMS AND DEVELOPMENT | ||
| FORENSIC INQUIRY | ||
| SPECIAL TOPICS IN CRIMINAL JUSTICE | ||
| WOMEN IN PRISON | ||
| VICTIMOLOGY | ||
| CRIMINAL JUSTICE ORGANIZATION AND ADMINISTRATION | ||
| FORENSIC IDENTIFICATION | ||
| CRIME AND MEDIA | ||
| COMPARATIVE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEMS | ||
| PEACEMAKING CRIMINOLOGY | ||
| RESTORATIVE JUSTICE | ||
| HOMELESSNESS AND JUSTICE | ||
| PENOLOGY | ||
| POLICE SYSTEMS AND PRACTICES | ||
| INTERNSHIP | ||
| CRITICAL GIS | ||
| CRIMINAL PROCEDURE | ||
| JURISPRUDENCE | ||
| BASIC CONCEPTS OF CRIMINAL LAW | ||
| CHILD AND ADOLESCENT DEVELOPMENT | ||
| CARE AND CUSTODY OF FEMALE OFFENDERS | ||
| DRUGS AND BEHAVIOR | ||
| PSYCHOLOGY AND THE LEGAL SYSTEM | ||
| SOCIOLOGY OF DEVIANCE | ||
| JUVENILE DELINQUENCY | ||
| CRIMINOLOGICAL THEORY | ||
| Required Capstone | ||
| CRIM 490 | CRIMINAL JUSTICE SENIOR CAPSTONE (a UGR–senior capstone) | 5 |
| Total Credits | 75 | |
University Competencies and Proficiencies
English
Quantitative and Symbolic Reasoning
Placement and Clearance
Prior Learning/Sources of Credit AP, CLEP, IB
General Education Requirements (GER)
- Minimum Credits—180 cumulative credit hours
- 60 upper-division credits (300 level or above)
- 45 credits in residence (attendance) at Eastern, with at least 15 upper-division credits in major in residence at Eastern
- Minimum Cumulative GPA ≥2.0
Breadth Area Core Requirements (BACR)
Humanities and Arts
Natural Sciences
Social Sciences
University Graduation Requirements (UGR)
Diversity Course List
Foreign Language (for Bachelor of Arts)
Global Studies Course List
Minor or Certificate
Senior Capstone Course List
Application for Graduation (use EagleNET) must be made at least two terms in advance of the term you expect to graduate (undergraduate and post-baccalaureate).
Use the Catalog Archives to determine two important catalog years.
Degree Works calculates based on these two catalog years.
- The catalog in effect at the student's first term of current matriculation is used to determine BACR (Breadth Area Credit Requirements) and UGR (Undergraduate Graduation Requirements).
- The catalog in effect at the time the student declares a major or minor is used to determine the program requirements.
Students who successfully earn a BA in Criminal Justice from EWU should be able to do the following:
- be able to engage in critical inquiry of criminal justice institutions, practices and policies which explores their benefits and consequences for social justice and equity;
- be able to understand and apply various methodological and theoretical approaches for conducting research and evaluation with regard to criminal justice practices and policies;
- demonstrate an awareness of the systems, processes and relationships between components which comprise the criminal justice system (courts/ law, law enforcement and corrections);
- demonstrate mastery of theories of criminology and deviance, a strong understanding of the correlates of crime and be able to make clear links between theoretical and applied contexts.