Criminal Justice
The Criminal Justice Program grants a BS degree and offers a minor. The major is a cross-discipline degree that includes courses in Police and Society, Law Enforcement Procedures, Criminology, and Crime and Corrections. Students also take courses in Criminal Behavior and Psychopathology as part of the core curriculum.
Rounding out the robust core curriculum, the University offers a wide array of criminal justice electives including Criminalistics and Forensics, Organized and White Collar Crime, Comparative Criminal Justice, and Crime Analysis and Criminological Research as well as Violence and Victimization studies. Six credit hours of applied practicum are required which involve working in a criminal justice agency such as the probation department, court system, police and sheriff’s departments, and agencies serving troubled youths.
A Criminal Justice Degree from QU allows students to enter one of a number of criminal justice careers well prepared. These professions include working in law enforcement at the federal, state, or local levels of government; serving in court administration or as victim advocates; and working in juvenile and adult institutional and community corrections (as probation or parole officers). A number of the program’s students go on to graduate school.
