A certificate of study in criminal justice is available also. For information contact the dean of the College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences.
Coordinator
Judith Little, Ph.D.
Behavioral & Social Sciences 518C
Department
of Sociology
Behavioral & Social Sciences 518
(707) 826-4561
This is an interdisciplinary program for students interested in the criminal justice system in the United States. Students may select courses to examine specific emphases in the broad area of criminal justice such as environmental crime and justice, dynamics of criminality and substance abuse, law and the administration of justice. Students planning to work within the criminal justice system, as advocates for environmental issues, as substance abuse counselors, as counselors for troubled youth, with native peoples, or interested in pursuing a law degree should benefit from this minor.
A minimum of 20 units from the following:
SOC 430 Criminology
BREADTH (minimum of 13 units distributed among at least 3 groupings)
At least one course from each of the three departments:
ANTH 339 Forensic Anthropology
NAS 332 Environmental
Justice
NAS 360 Tribal
Justice System
PSYC
406 Forensic Psychology
PSYC
438 Dynamics of Abnormal Behavior
PSYC
473 Substance Use & Abuse
PSCI
313 The Politics of Criminal Justice
PSCI 316 Public
Administration
PSCI 410 American
Constitutional Law: Civil Rights & Liberties
PSCI/ENVS/NRPI 412 Legal
Research
REC 310 Recreation
for Special Groups
SOC
330 Social Deviance
SOC 363 Environmental
Crime
SOC 473 Prisons:
Thinking Through
a Societal Issue
SOC/WS 319 Ecology
of Family Violence
SW
431 / SOC
431 Juvenile Delinquency
SW 442 Drugs,
People & Society
PSYCH 483 Community Psychology Experience
PSCI 470 California
Studies
Internship
REC 495 Directed Field Experience
SOC 482 Applied Sociology