Curriculum & Courses

Bachelor of Arts ― Criminal Justice

 

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Curriculum

The foundation of the Bachelor of Arts - Criminal Justice degree includes 20 required core courses, 10 General Education courses, and eight Electives, for a total of 38 courses, and 120 credits, over four years.

  • CRJS 1001 - Introduction to Criminology
  • CRJS 1003 - Introduction to the Justice System
  • CRJS 1011 - Introduction to Human Relations
  • CRJS 1013 - Diversity Issues and the Criminal Justice System
  • CRJS 2002 - Indigenous People and the Canadian Criminal Justice System
  • CRJS 2003 - Young Persons in Conflict with the Law
  • CRJS 2005 - Aberrant Behavior
  • CRJS 2013 - Forensic Interviewing
  • CRJS 2015 - Introduction to Research Methods in Justice Studies
  • CRJS 3001 - Quantitative Research Methods and Data Analysis
  • CRJS 3005 - Qualitative Research Methods
  • CRJS 3007 - Professional Ethics in Criminal Justice
  • CRJS 3009 - Crisis Intervention Strategies
  • CRJS 3011 - Criminal Law
  • CRJS 4001 - Canadian Charter Rights and Civil Liberties
  • CRJS 4003 - Criminological Theory
  • CRJS 5025 - Criminal Justice Capstone Practicum

 

Nine credits

Choose nine credits from the list below (exceptions require department approval):

  • CRJS 2001 - Crime and Criminal Intelligence Analysis
  • CRJS 2004 - Issues and Trends in Canadian Policing
  • CRJS 2006 - Corrections
  • CRJS 2008 - Environmental Criminology: Theories, Methods and Strategies
  • CRJS 2009 - Selected Issues in Human Justice
  • CRJS 2011 - Comparative Criminal Justice Systems
  • CRJS 2017 - Corporate and White Collar Crime
  • CRJS 2019 - Restorative Justice
  • CRJS 2021 - Women and the Canadian Criminal Justice System
  • CRJS 2222 - Criminal Justice Field School *
  • CRJS 4002 - Critical Analyses of Forensic Sciences in the Criminal Justice System
  • CRJS 4007 - Conflict Resolution
  • CRJS 4013 - Evidence and Procedures
  • CRJS 4015 - Advanced Topics in Law, Criminology and Criminal Justice
  • CRJS 4017 - Casework Methods and Practice
  • ECON 1170 - Economics of Crime and Criminal Justice
  • PLSC 2243 - Law, Politics and the Judicial Process *

* Students who complete CRJS 2222 (6 credits) or PLSC 2243 (6 credits) as a criminal justice option course are required to complete only 3 credits of other criminal justice option courses.


Electives

  • 24 credits (usually 8 courses) Electives


General Education Requirements

Ten courses must be completed to meet the General Education requirements to graduate with a Bachelor of Arts - Criminal Justice.

  1. Four courses will be taken at the foundational level: one from each of the thematic clusters. 
  2. Three courses will be taken at the second tier: no more than one from each of the thematic clusters. One of these courses must be from the Numeracy and Scientific Literacy cluster.
  3. Three courses must be taken at the third tier, selected from at least two of the thematic clusters.


Practica

Students in the Bachelor of Arts - Criminal Justice must complete a 6-credit capstone practicum in order to graduate. There is no practicum requirement in the Honours stream. 

A capstone practicum normally occurs in the fourth year of study. Coordinated by the Department's Practicum Coordinator, students are placed with a justice-related agency to gain practical experience and enhance their experiential learning. Traditionally, practica are unpaid work experiences. Practica involve approximately 2.5 days of full-time work within an agency, biweekly academic seminars and required course assignments supervised by a faculty instructor. In total, practica involves 280 hours of placement hours and academic work over the academic term. Students are required to work with the Department's Practicum Coordinator well in advance of going out on placement and before registering for the practicum course.