Minor in Criminal Justice Studies
The multidisciplinary program in Criminal Justice Studies explores the conception and implementation of law, crime, and justice systems and ideas. The program emphasizes critical thinking about law, crime, and justice systems and their entanglement with larger political economic processes. In particular, the program explores how ideas and systems of crime, law, and justice shape broader issues of social justice, especially those related to the experience of race, class, gender, sexuality, and age inequity in the U.S. The program teaches students the skills of critical analysis and ethical reasoning so that students can challenge structures and assumptions and innovatively contribute to the assessment of alternative solutions to problems associated with the identification, control, and prevention of crime and delinquency.
Program Learning Outcomes
- Learn how systemic inequality shapes and is shaped by crime, law, and justice system.
- Describe how people and groups impact, engage, contest, and remake legal institutions and ideas.
Criminal Justice Studies Minor — 16 units minimum
All coursework used to satisfy the requirements of the minor must be completed with a minimum grade point average of 2.0.
A total of 13 units must be upper-division courses. Up to 3 transfer units in Introduction to Criminal Justice or Concepts of Criminal Law completed at a California community college may be counted towards meeting requirements for the minor. For applicable courses, go to the ASSIST website: assist.org/web-assist/welcome.html.
Foundation Course (4 units)
| Code | Title | Units |
|---|---|---|
| C J 300 | Criminal Justice: A Cross-Disciplinary Perspective | 4 |
Electives (12–16 units)
Select four:
| Code | Title | Units |
|---|---|---|
| AA S 595 | Asian American Communities and Public Policy | 3 |
| AFRS 375 | Law and the Black Community | 3 |
| AFRS 376 | Government, the Constitution, and Black Citizens | 3 |
| AIS 330 | American Indian Law | 3 |
| AIS 460 | Power and Politics in American Indian History | 3 |
| C J 200 | Construction of Crime and Justice | 3 |
| C J 230 | Crime, Data, and Analysis | 3 |
| C J/I R 306 | Crisis in Central America: U.S. Policy and the Root Causes of Chaos | 4 |
| C J 320 | Literature in Criminal Justice - Crime Control, Due Process, and Class Justice | 3 |
| C J 323 | Ethics in Criminal Justice | 3 |
| C J 330GW & C J 330 | Research Methods in Criminal Justice - GWAR and Research Methods in Criminal Justice Studies Activity | 4 |
| C J 335 | Legal Writing and Research | 4 |
| C J 340/I R 341 | Comparative Criminal Justice | 4 |
| C J/I R 360 | Intelligence and Intelligence Agencies | 4 |
| C J/I R/PLSI 362 | The Making of US Foreign Policy | 4 |
| C J 400 | Police and Public Policy | 3 |
| C J 401 | Criminal Profiling | 3 |
| C J 405 | Organized Crime | 3 |
| C J 410 | Crime Scene Investigation | 3 |
| C J 420 | Introduction to Forensic Science | 3 |
| C J 435/LTNS 430 | Race, Crime, and Justice | 3 |
| C J/LTNS 485 | Latina/o Youth, Crime, and Justice | 3 |
| C J 450 | Jails and Prisons | 3 |
| C J 451 | The Architecture of Incarceration | 3 |
| C J 452/SOC 451 | Criminological Theory | 4 |
| C J 460 | Community Corrections and Sentencing | 3 |
| C J 461/I R 361 | Terrorism and Covert Political Warfare | 4 |
| C J 470/SOC 452 | Juvenile Justice | 4 |
| C J 471 | Contemporary Issues in Juvenile Justice | 3 |
| C J 475 | Intervention Policies in Juvenile Justice | 3 |
| C J 480 | California Corrections System | 3 |
| C J 490 | Immigration, Criminalization, and Justice | 3 |
| C J 501 | Criminal Law | 3 |
| C J 502 | Criminal Procedure | 3 |
| C J/SOC 510 | Analysis of the Felon in Society | 3 |
| C J/SOC/USP 511 | Critical Analysis of Re-entry and Housing | 3 |
| C J 515 | Extremism as Crime | 3 |
| C J 525 | Global Restorative Justice and Corrections | 3 |
| C J 530 | Geographies of Social Control and Urban Diversity | 3 |
| C J 535 | Alternatives to Criminalization | 3 |
| C J 550 | School Violence and Discipline | 3 |
| C J 570 | Urban Violence | 3 |
| C J 600 | Youth Gangs in Community Context | 3 |
| C J 605 | Criminalization of Gender and Sexuality | 3 |
| C J 690 | Criminal Justice Studies Internship | 1-4 |
| COMM 503 | Gender and Communication | 4 |
| COMM 525 | Sexualities and Communication | 4 |
| COMM 531 | Conflict Resolution | 4 |
| COMM 541 | Critical Approaches to Culture and Communication | 4 |
| COMM 543 | Dialogues Across Differences | 4 |
| COMM 564 | Issues in Free Speech | 4 |
| COMM 573 | The Rhetoric of Criminality and Punishment | 4 |
| COUN 630 | Legal Center Training I | 3 |
| COUN 631 | Legal Center Training II | 3 |
| GPS/PHIL 375 | Peace Law and Human Rights in the U.S. | 3 |
| HIST 465 | American Ethnic and Racial Relations II: 1890-Present | 3 |
| HIST 470 | The U.S. Constitution to 1896 | 3 |
| HIST 471 | The U.S. Constitution Since 1896 | 3 |
| LTNS 415 | Latina/o Economic Empowerment | 3 |
| LTNS 470 | Latina/o Immigration to the U.S. | 3 |
| PHIL 335 | Law and Society | 3 |
| PHIL 378 | Philosophy of Criminal Law | 3 |
| PHIL 380 | Philosophy of Law | 3 |
| PHIL 455/SXS 569 | Sex and the Law | 3 |
| PLSI 464 | Race and American Politics | 4 |
| PLSI 478 | Judicial Process | 4 |
| PLSI/USP 512 | Urban Politics and Community Power | 4 |
| PLSI 552 | Individual Rights and the Constitution | 4 |
| PSY 472 | Introduction to Legal Psychology | 3 |
| PSY 475 | Psychology of Policing | 3 |
| PSY 547 | Social Conflict and Conflict Resolution | 3 |
| RRS/SOC 330 | Comparative Race and Ethnicity in the U.S.: Class, Gender, and Nation | 3 |
| RRS 571 | Women, Race, and Class | 3 |
| SOC 455 | Punishment and Social Control | 3 |
| SXS 455 | Sex, Power, and Politics | 3 |
| WGS 513 | Gender, War, and Militarism | 3 |
| WGS 514 | Women and the Prison Industrial Complex | 3 |
| WGS 554 | Gender and Global Migration | 3 |