Major/Minor Detail

Credit Hours: 33

Overview

This program is intended to be a Masters degree that conforms to the nationally accepted standard in the field as indicated by the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences. It is intended to develop additional analytical skills for in-service practitioners with BA/BS in the fi eld or a closely related fi eld provide practitioners in this region with access to graduate education in their fi eld in order for them to be more competitive for promotion within state agencies. provide our undergraduates who wish to pursue an advanced degree regional access to one in their fi eld of choice provide our undergraduate who are considering a Ph.D in the fi eld a good foundation for further graduate studies. No later than the second semester after a student enters the program, the student
shall select a graduate committee of at least three faculty members from the graduate faculty, at least two of whom must be from the department of Criminology, Sociology, and Geography. By the end of the second semester the student shall submit a graduate plan to the committee for consideration, which shall indicate the courses the student plans to take to fulfi ll the degree requirements. At least two members of the committee must approve of the plan.
The student must write and defend a professional paper, one the student's
graduate committee unanimously agrees is worth of presentation at a professional
conference or submission to a refereed journal. The defense shall be open to all
members of the graduate faculty of the University and shall be considered both an
oral and written comprehensive examination. The student must otherwise comply
with all existing graduate school policy at the time of admission

Requirements

Degree Requirements
Core Required Courses

• SOC 6233 Criminal Justice Systems
• SOC 6133 Seminar in Policing
• SOC 6513 Seminar in Community and Institutional Corrections
• SOC 6523 Seminar in Criminal Behavior OR
• SOC 6403 Seminar in Juvenile Delinquency

Methods Courses

• SOC 6343 Methods of Social Research
• SOC 6253 Qualitative Methods of Social Research
• SOC 5343 Geographical Information Systems for the Social Sciences

Electives (6 courses required; 18 hours total) from any of the following:

• POSC 6553 Public Budgeting and Finance
• POSC 6533 Seminar in Human Resource Management
• POSC 6503 Managing Local Government
• POSC 6523 Decision Making
• SOC 6203 Social Psychology
• SOC 5233 Social Organizations
• SOC 6523 Criminal Behavior OR SOC 6403 Seminar in Juvenile

Delinquency (whichever course was not taken to satisfy core requirements)

• SOC 6123 Aging, Law and Social Issues
• SOC 6423 Seminar in Race, Gender and Class
• Any of the courses listed, but not taken for the methods requirement.
• Other courses, with approval from the Director of the MACJ and the Chair of CSG 4