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 |
| HSC 250 | Emergency Care for the Healthcare Professional | 3 |
| LJA 204 | Introduction to Law, Justice, and Advocacy | 4 |
| Total Credit Hours: | 23 |
3 elective credit hours
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:
One of the following:
| PSC 401 | Public Policy Analysis | 4 |
| PSC 302 | 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: 87