Criminal Justice Requirements
CRIMINAL JUSTICE TRANSFER PATH WITH CORE CERT ASSOCIATE IN ARTS DEGREE: 62 Total Credit Hours
Degree requirements
- Completion of minimum of 60 credit hours
- Minimum cumulative 2.0 GPA
- Minimum of 15 credit hours earned at the institution awarding the degree
- Completion of Cultural Studies course
- Demonstration of Digital Literacy
- Completion of a College Success requirement
Degree requirements for NKU:
- Minimum of 45 credit hours must be 300 level or above
- Must meet the pre-requisites for each course
- Minimum of 20 percent of the total required hours must be taken at NKU
Admission requirements for NKU:
- Students majoring or minoring in criminal justice must earn at least a C in each course counted as part of the major or minor
- At least 24 hours of JUS courses must be earned in residence at NKU
- A maximum of 6 hours of JUS 496 may be counted toward the major
- Special admission requirements: To declare a major in criminal justice, organizational leadership or international studies, students - including transfer students - must have earned a GPA of at least 2.0 in all prior college work
Courses
- Arts and Humanities or Social Behavioral Sciences or Foreign Language (6 credit hours)
- Criminal Justice Elective (CRJ 102 Introduction to Corrections or CRJ 215 Introduction to Law Enforcement)
- CRJ 202 Issues and Ethics in Criminal Justice
- CRJ 204 Criminal Investigations*
- CRJ 216 Criminal Law
- CRJ 217 Criminal Procedures
- CRJ 295 Criminal Justice Capstone
- ENG 101 Writing I
- ENG 102 Writing II
- FYE 105 Achieving Academic Success
- Heritage
- Humanities (rec. JUS 231 Race, Gender, and Crime)
- JUS 101 Introduction to Criminal Justice*
- Natural Science (must include a laboratory experience**)
- Additional Natural Science or Quantitative Reasoning (rec. STA 251 Applied Statistics)
- Oral Communications (rec. COM 181 Basic Public Speaking or COM 252 Introduction to Interpersonal Communication)
- OST 105 Introduction to Information Systems (meets digital literacy requirement)
- Quantitative Reasoning (MAT 151 Introduction to Applied Statistics or MAT 161 Statistics and Algebra)
- Social/Behavioral Sciences (rec. POL 101 American Government)
- Social Behavioral Sciences
Notes
- * It is recommended that students take JUS 101 and CRJ 204 before other CRJ coursework
- **Credit from a dedicated lab course may be used in Electives
- At least 25 percent of the approved curriculum for any certificate, diploma or degree must be completed at the student’s home college.
Updated 6/2/20
