Core Requirements

Required for Major (39 Semester hours)

• CRJU 201 - Introduction to Criminal Justice (3)
• CRJU 202 - American Judicial System (3)
• CRJU 203 - American Corrections (3)
• CRJU 204 Introduction to Law Enforcement
• CRJU 327 - Theories (3)
• CRJU 316 - Advanced Criminal Procedure and Evidence (3)
• CRJU 328 - Race, Class and Gender and Criminal Justice (3)
• CRJU 403 - Criminalistics I (3)
• SOCI 309 - Elementary Statistics in Sociology (3)
• SOCI 412 - Methods of Sociological Research (3)
• SOCI 413 - Data Analysis (3)
• CRJU 418 - Seminar in Criminal Justice (senior year) (3)
• SOCI 400 - Practicum in Criminal Justice (senior year) (3)

The Bachelor of Arts degree requires 12 hours in a foreign language. In order to earn a degree, a student must complete 120 hours. Of these, 40-41 are General Education Requirements and 6 are Institutional Requirements as follows:

Institutional Requirements (6 semester hours)

• FRSE 101 - Freshman Seminar (not required for transfer students with 12 or more semester hours)
  Transfer students not taking Freshman Seminar must substitute three (3) other semester hours to be included in their total of 120 hours.
• HEED 102 - Contemporary Health or IDIS 210 Contemporary Health Issues of Women (3)

English Composition (6 semester hours or 2 courses)

• ENGL 101 - Expository Writing (3)
• ENGL 102 - Argument and Research (3)

After completing ENGL 101 and ENGL 102 (Expository Writing and Argument and Research), students must take and successfully pass the Bowie State University English Proficiency Examination. Transfer students who completed their English Composition requirements must take the English Proficiency Examination during their first semester of enrollment at the University.

Arts and Humanities (6 semester hours)

Discipline Courses: Philosophy, Communications, Theatre, Art, Music, and Modern Languages

• Arts/Humanities - (3)
• Arts/Humanities - (3)

Social Science (6 Credits)

• HIST 114 - African-American History to 1865 or HIST 115 African-American History since 1865 (3)
• SOCI 101 - Introduction to Sociology (3)

Natural Science (7 – 8 semester hours - 2 science courses at least one shall be a laboratory course)

Discipline Courses: Biology, Chemistry, Physics, and Physical Science

Students may not take two courses from the same area, and a Biology course must have an associated lab.

• ____ ___ - Science (4)
• ____ ___ - Science (3) or (4)

Mathematics (3 semester hours or 1 course)

• Math 116 - Intro. Math Ideas (3) or Math 118 - Finite Math (3) or Math 125 - College Algebra (3)

Technology (3 semester hours or 1 course)

Discipline Courses: Business Information Systems or Computer Science

• COSC 110 - Computer Literacy and Applications (3)

Free General Education Electives (9 semester hours)

Departmental advisement, chosen from any category within the General Education Course List.

Courses numbered "100" or less in Communication Skills and in Mathematics are developmental courses and as such are not included in the 120–credit hour graduation requirement, and thus constitute additional semester hours beyond 120–hour requirement.