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Curriculum in Criminal Justice
Leading to the Degree of Bachelor of Arts

(Please refer to footnotes at the bottom of the page for additional details)

FIRST YEAR

First Semester

Course Description Credit Hours
††CJ 101 Introduction to Criminal Justice 3
Fine Arts4,G   3
ENGL 101 or
ENGL 101HG		 Freshman Composition
Freshman Composition Honors		 3
HistoryG   3
*SE 101 Freshman Academic Success at Southeastern 2
LS 102 Introduction to Information Research 1
Total Semester Credit Hours: 15

Second Semester

Course Description Credit Hours
††CJ 2012 Criminal Law 3
SOC 101 Introduction to Sociology 3
ENGL 102 or
ENGL 102HG		 Critical Reading and Writing
Critical Reading and Writing Honors                    		 3
MathematicsG   3
Foreign
Language1		   3
Total Semester Credit Hours: 15

SECOND  YEAR

First Semester

Course Description Credit Hours
††CJ 2022 The American Judicial Process                          3
PSYC 101 General Psychology I 3
English
LiteratureG		   3
Foreign
Language1		   3
Mathematics or
Analytical
ReasoningG		   3
Total Semester Credit Hours: 15

Second Semester

Course Description Credit Hours
††CJ 2042 Contemporary Law Enforcement 3
Social Science
Elective5,G		   3
Natural
Science3,G		   3
POLI 201 or
POLI 202		 American Politics
State and Local Politics                                      		 3
††CJ 2052 The Correction Process 3
Total Semester Credit Hours: 15

THIRD YEAR

First Semester

Course Description Credit Hours
SOC 305 Data Analysis and Statistics for the 
Social Sciences		 3
CJ 296 Deviance and Social Control
               		 3
Natural
Science3,G		   3
††CJ
Elective		   3
Speech
Communication7 
or PhilosophyG		                                     3
Total Semester Credit Hours: 15

Second Semester

Course Description Credit Hours
††CJ
Elective		   3
††CJ
Elective		   3
Natural
Science3,G		   3
SOC 310 Methods of Social Research                     3
††CJ
Elective		   3
Total Semester Credit Hours: 15

FOURTH YEAR

First Semester

Course Description Credit Hours
Elective   3
††CJ
Elective		   3
Elective   3
GEOG 322 Geography of Louisiana                          3
††CJ
Elective		   3
Total Semester Credit Hours: 15

Second Semester

Course Description Credit Hours
††CJ Elective   3
Social
Science
Elective5,G		   3
††CJ 412 or
SOC 412		 Criminology
Criminology		 3
Elective   3
SOC 411 or
ANTH 411		 Race and Ethnic Relations                            
Race and ethnic Relations		 3
Total Semester Credit Hours: 15

 

Total Credit Hours Required For Curriculum: 120

*Southeastern 101 is not required of transfer or readmitted Southeastern students with 30 or more hours. Those students will replace Southeastern 101 with 2 hours of free electives.
GGeneral Education Courses
††Indicates courses required in major. A grade of "C" or better is required.
1Six hours in one foreign language. 
2CJ 201, 202, 204, and 205, may be taken in any sequence.
3Nine hours, to include a 6-hour sequence of either biological or physical sciences, and the opposite for the other 3 hours.
4MUS 151, THEA 131, ART 105, ART 106, DNC 302, HONR 191.
5Anthropology, Economics, Geography , Political Science, Psychology or Sociology.
6Sociology, Political Science, Psychology, Economics, Anthropology, or Geography.
7COMM 210, 211, 211H, 213, 215, 270, 272.