UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAMS
Concentrations
Corrections
The emphasis in corrections prepares students for careers in numerous community-based and residential correctional programs, including probation, parole, victim services and institutional corrections (e.g., jails, prisons, halfway houses, group homes). Positions are available for criminal justice majors in all of these areas at the local, state and federal levels.
Recommended coursework:
- HCJ u330 Introduction to Corrections
- HCJ u360 Introduction to Juvenile Justice
- HCJ u500 Gender, Crime and Justice
- HCJ u502 Race, Crime and Justice
- HCJ u506 CJ Organization and Management
- HCJ u508 Crime Prevention
- HCJ u515 Courts and Sentencing
- HCJ u530 Community-Based Corrections
- HCJ u535 Correctional Intervention
- HCJ u578 Victims of Crime
- HCJ u600 Advanced Seminar in Criminal Justice
- HCJ u630 Advanced Seminar in Corrections
Recommended supporting sequences:
