Community Safety

The community safety concentration is designed for the student who works in or wants to work in a public safety agency and desires to combine select courses from a variety of related disciplines into a cohesive degree.

Concentration Requirements

To meet the requirements for the community safety concentration, students must satisfactorily complete the following requirements:

As part of the General Curriculum Distribution requirements (hours count to fulfill the GCDR but not the concentration) complete the following courses:

PSY 101	General Psychology	4
SOC 100	Introduction to Sociology	4
Total Credit Hours:		8

Additional Requirements

A minimum of 46 credit hours in the concentration, consisting of:

CRM 101	Introduction to Criminology	4
CRM 102	Introduction to Criminal Justice	4
CRM 200	Law Enforcement	4
CRM 300	Victimology	4
HIS 325	Narcotic Drugs and Modern Society	4
HSC 250	Emergency Medical Response	3
LJA 204	Introduction to Law, Justice, and Advocacy	4
Total Credit Hours:		27

3 elective credit hours

HSC Elective

Electives must be earned in one or more of the following:

Criminology (CRM)
Psychology (PSY)
Political Science (PSC)
Health Science (HSC)
Philosophy (PHL)

One of the following:

CRM 210	Ethics in Justice	4
CRM 403	Drugs, Deviance and Crime	4
CRM 406	Violence in America	4
HIS 402	Natural and Unnatural Disasters in Modern World History	4
PHL 202	Ethics	4
PHL 313	Justice	4
PSC 403	U.S. National Security Policy	4
Total Credit Hours:		28

One of the following:

PSC 401	Public Policy Analysis	4
PSC 403	U.S. National Security Policy	4
SOC 306	Racial and Ethnic Relations	4
SOC 313	Social Stratification	4
SOC 320	Sociology of Gender	4
SOC 325	Clinical and Counseling Sociology	4
SOC 460	Applied Sociology	4
Total Credit Hours:		28

Total Credit Hours: 91