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2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog

Criminal Justice, Social Studies Teacher Certification Track (BA) Sample Plan


Year One

Fall Spring
EN - 103 Composition and Rhetoric I   3 EN - 104 Composition and Rhetoric II    3
UNIV - 101 First-Year Experience    3 PL - 109 Philosophical Thinking  or TH - 109 Catholic Theology   3
CJ - 100 Cybercrime  or CJ - 160 Criminal Law   3 CJ - 100 Cybercrime  or CJ - 160 Criminal Law   3
CJ - 109 Crime and Society   
(Satisfies Expanded Literacies: Social Analysis - 1/6)
3 Expanded Literacies (2/6) 3
ED - 109 The Educative Process    3 Controlled Elective (1)* 3
TOTAL CREDITS 15 TOTAL CREDITS 15

Year Two

Fall Spring
TH - 109 Catholic Theology  or PL - 109 Philosophical Thinking   3 Expanded Literacies (4/6) 3
Expanded Literacies (3/6)   3 Expanded Literacies (5/6)  3
CJ - 250 Criminology    3 CJ - 260 Law Enforcement   3
CJ - 280 Corrections   3 CJ - 295 Ethics in Criminal Justice   3
ED - 209 Cognition and Learning   3 ED - 218 Introduction to Exceptionality   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
CJ - 349 Applied Data Analysis   3 HI - 262 World History Since 1500  (Satisfies Expanded Literacies 6/6)  3
CJ - 365 Criminal Procedure   3 CJ - 350 Research Methods   3
ED - 366 Literacy Interventions 4-12   3 HI - 201 Western Civilization to 1600 A.D.   3
EC - 209 Principles of Macroeconomics   3 Controlled Elective (2)* 3
CJ - 353 Careers in Criminal Justice   1    
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   3 Controlled Elective (4)* 3
Controlled Elective (3)* 3 Controlled Elective (5)* 3
ED - 373 Teaching English Learners   3 HI - 401 Seminar in Historical Research   4
PO - 103 American Federal Government   3    
TOTAL CREDITS 15 TOTAL CREDITS 13

TOTAL OVERALL CREDITS: 121

*Controlled Electives - Choose five from any the following courses: Any CJ course or HS course; LG 309 ; PO 103 , PO 256 , PO 330 ; PS 109 , PS 240 PS 250  , PS 290 PS 295 , PS 300 , PS 365 , PS 370 ; SO 203 

Year Five - Graduate M.Ed. Phase** ***

Summer Fall
SC 518 3 SC 525 3
SC 519 3 SE 522 3
SC 524 3    
SC 522 3    
Spring Summer
SC 551 3 ED 600 3

**Admission Requirements for Graduate M.Ed. Phase: (1) Satisfactory completion of ED 109 , ED 209 , ED 218 , ED 366 , and ED 373 ; (2) cumulative GPA of 3.0; and (3) passing score on PRAXIS Social Studies test.

 ***Additional tuition based on current M.Ed. Rates.

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 .