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2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog

Criminal Justice, Corrections and Rehabilitation Track (BA) Sample Plan


Year One

Fall Spring
EN - 103 Composition and Rhetoric I    3 EN - 104 Composition and Rhetoric II    3
PL - 109 Philosophical Thinking   
or Expanded Literacies (1/6)
3 PL - 109 Philosophical Thinking  
or Expanded Literacies (1/6)
3
UNIV - 101 First-Year Experience   3 Expanded Literacies (3/6) 3
CJ - 160 Criminal Law  or Controlled Elective (1)* 3 CJ - 160 Criminal Law  or Controlled Elective (1)* 3
CJ - 109 Crime and Society   
(Satisfies Expanded Literacies: Social Analysis - 2/6
3 PS - 109 Introduction to Psychology   3
TOTAL CREDITS 15 TOTAL CREDITS 15

Year Two

Fall Spring
TH - 109 Catholic Theology   
or Expanded Literacies (4/6) 
3 TH - 109 Catholic Theology   
or Expanded Literacies (4/6)
3
Expanded Literacies (5/6)  
or Controlled Elective (2)*
3 Expanded Literacies (5/6)  
or Controlled Elective (2)*
3
CJ - 250 Criminology    3 CJ - 260 Law Enforcement  or Free Elective 3
CJ - 280 Corrections    3 CJ - 295 Ethics in Criminal Justice   3
CJ - 260 Law Enforcement  or Free Elective  3 Free Elective 3
UNIV - 110 Being Well  or FN - 100 Financial Literacy   1 UNIV - 110 Being Well  or FN - 100 Financial Literacy   1
TOTAL CREDITS 16 TOTAL CREDITS 16

Year Three

Fall Spring
Lens 1, 2, or 3 (1/3)  3 Lens 1, 2, or 3 (2/3)  3
Expanded Literacies (6/6) or Free Elective 3 Expanded Literacies (6/6) or Free Elective 3
CJ - 349 Applied Data Analysis    3 CJ - 350 Research Methods    3
CJ - 365 Criminal Procedure   3 PS - 370 Counseling Psychology  or CJ - 290 Community Corrections   3
CJ - 353 Careers in Criminal Justice   1 Free Elective 3
PS - 370 Counseling Psychology  or CJ - 290 Community Corrections   3    
TOTAL CREDITS 16 TOTAL CREDITS 15

Year Four

Fall Spring
Catholicism in Dialogue or Lens 1, 2, or 3 
(3/3) 
3 Catholicism in Dialogue or Lens 1, 2, or 3 
(3/3) 
3
CJ - 453 Senior Seminar    Free Elective 3
PS - 390 Introduction to Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy  or Free Elective 3 PS - 390 Introduction to Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy  or Free Elective 3
Free Elective 3 Free Elective 3
Free Elective 3    
TOTAL CREDITS 15 TOTAL CREDITS 12

TOTAL OVERALL CREDITS: 120

*Controlled Electives - Choose two from any the following courses: CJ 100 ,  CJ 252 , CJ 285 , CJ 300 , CJ 305 , CJ 382 ; PS 220 , PS 240 , PS 250 , PS 260 PS 290 PS 295 , PS 365 ; SO 109 , SO 203 

For more information about the requirements in our general education Connections Curriculum, which are included in the sample plan above, please see I. General Education (Connections Curriculum), which can be found in The Undergraduate Program .

The Criminal Justice Department offers a Bachelor’s to Masters (4+1) program that enables qualifying students to register for MCJ courses during their senior year. For more information, see the DeSales University Graduate Catalog and consult with the MCJ Program Director.