Bachelor of Science in Criminal Justice

To qualify for admission to the program, FIU undergraduates must have met all the lower division requirements including CLAST, completed 60 semester hours, and must be otherwise acceptable into the program. Students must complete 60 semester hours of coursework, including 24 semester hours of core courses, 12 semester hours of criminal justice electives, and 24 semester hours of general electives. Students must earn a grade of 'C' or higher in all core and criminal justice elective classes ('C-' is not acceptable). The BSCJ program is available at the University Park campus and fully online (see http://online.fiu.edu).

FALL 2009 CURRICULUM
 
Core Courses (24 Credits). Eight courses are required for all criminal justice majors:
CCJ 3011 Nature & Causes of Crime
CJC 3010 Corrections
CJE 3110 Law Enforcement
CJL 3512 The Courts
CJL 4064 Criminal Justice & the Constitution
CCJ 4497 Criminal Justice & Public Policy (senior standing required)
CCJ 4700 Research Methods in Criminal Justice
CCJ 4701 Measurement & Analysis in Criminal Justice
 
Criminal Justice Electives (12 Credits). Any four 3000 or 4000 level courses within criminal justice (with the prefixes CCJ, CJC, CJE, CJJ, CJL, DSC). Only six semester hours of CCJ 4940 (Internship in Criminal Justice) will count in this area.
 
General Electives (24 Credits). Any 3000 or 4000 level courses. Nine semester hours of electives must be taken outside of criminal justice. One- and two-credit physical activity courses (with the prefixes PEL, PEM, PEN) cannot be included as part of the hours needed for graduation. Independent study courses may not be taken outside of criminal justice.  

DEGREE REQUIREMENTS

  1. Students entering FIU without an Associate of Arts degree from a Florida Community College must complete the "University Core Curriculum" requirements. (See http://undergrad.fiu.edu/advising/cv.html).

  2. All student admitted Fall 2009 and after and all other students electing to change to the new curriculum will be subject to the College of Arts and Sciences foreign language requirement.

  3. All students entering any University within the Florida State University System with fewer than 60 credit hours are required to earn at least nine (9) credit hours prior to graduation by attending one or more summer terms at a university within the State University System.

  4. Effective Fall 1984, the State Board of Education established minimum score standards (CLAST) for the awarding of the Associate of Arts degree and for admission to upper division status in Florida's state universities. Students admitted into the upper division status, but missing the completion of any section of this exam or any other lower division requirement must complete these requirement or may face restricted enrollment in upper division courses.

  5. The Board of Governors has mandated that all baccalaureate programs in the State of Florida public universities develop Academic Learning Compacts (ALCs) that are student learning outcomes in three areas: (1) discipline-specific knowledge, (2) communication, and (3) critical thinking. The expectation is that each program will assess those student learning outcomes. The ALCs for the Bachelor of Science in Criminal Justice are available online at http://cj.fiu.edu/ALC.pdf.

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