Students majoring in criminal justice must complete 36 credits of criminal justice and sociology courses with at least a 2.0 grade-point average in the combined courses. Course 50:920:301 Methods and Techniques of Social Research should be taken shortly after the introductory courses and preferably before the junior year. Course 50:202:449 Ethics and Policy in Criminal Justice is the capstone course for criminal justice majors and is taken in the senior year. At least half of the credits for the major must be taken at Rutgers.
Students must complete 21 of the 36 credits required for the major as follows:
50:202:201 Criminal Justice in American Society (3)
and two of the following:
50:202:202 Police and Policing (3)
50:202:203 Confinement and Corrections (3)
50:202:204 Courts and Criminal Law (3)
and all of the following:
50:202:449 Ethics and Policy in Criminal Justice (3)
50:920:301 Methods and Techniques of Social Research (3)
50:920:313 Theories of Crime and Delinquency (3)
50:920:316 Race and Ethnicity (3) or 50:920:332 Social Stratification (3) or 50:202:337 The Poor, Minorities, and Justice (3)
Students also must complete at least 15 credits of the 36 required for the major in any 300- or 400-level courses from the offerings in criminal justice and/or the following criminal justice-related courses offered in sociology. Courses that can be used to satisfy this requirement include 50:202:404 Service/Internship in Criminal Justice, for a maximum of 3 credits.
50:920:208 Contemporary Social Problems (3)
50:920:217 Drugs and Society (3)
50:920:280 Social Movements in Society (3)
50:920:315 Sociology of Complex Organizations (3)
50:920:329 Law and Society (3)
50:920:344 Sociology of Deviance (3)
