Department of Sociology

Double Major in Criminal Justice
and Sociology

This cooperative venture between the Departments of Criminal Justice and Sociology enables you to complete two majors before graduation. Completing the sociology major, in addition to the criminal justice major, is expected to serve you well in a number of ways. This option displays the completion of a second major on your graduation transcript, indicating an additional breadth of knowledge in the investigation of social problems and issues. Given the social forces that affect the work of police officers, probation officers, and judges, and the nature of justice today, additional knowledge and skills should serve you well. Completion of both majors will enhance your employment opportunities in criminal justice. Students with a second major in sociology find they are more eligible for career advancement. Additional knowledge about such matters as domestic violence, sex crimes, deviant behavior, and alternative methods of conflict resolution is invaluable for the person employed in criminal justice. At such time that you decide to pursue a master's or doctorate degree in criminology or sociology, this combined major should facilitate admission into the many graduate programs that combine the two disciplines, as well as graduate work in either field. The combined major should also facilitate admission to graduate work in administration or law school, if these possibilities interest you.

For advisement on a double major in criminal justice and sociology, consult with any criminal justice or sociology professor. Please feel free to meet with me, as chair I suggest consulting with one of the substantial number of our students currently completing a double major in criminal justice and sociology. If you elect to pursue this option of a double major in criminal justice and sociology, do so as early in your career as possible, since courses in both areas fill up very quickly, and you receive preferential treatment through preregistration as a major in each area.

The double major in criminal justice and sociology is easy to accomplish. Sociology courses can fulfill your criminal justice corequisites and you may overlap sociology and criminal justice courses. We can enroll you in minutes; just drop in or call.

Julie Ford Chair,
Sociology Department

585-395-5656

Double Major in Criminal Justice and Sociology:
Course Plan in Sociology
With References to Criminal Justice Major

CORE COURSES IN SOCIOLOGY:

______ Intro Sociology, SOC 100 (fulfills co-requisite for criminal justice)

______ SOC 210, 220, 230 (one of these must be taken at Brockport)

______ Statistics, SOC 200 (fulfills co-requisite for criminal justice)*

______ Sociological Theory, SOC 300*

______ Research Methods*
(SOC 310 or CRJ 471-required for CRJ major)

SOCIOLOGY ELECTIVES:
(18 credits unless you receive credit for another statistics course, in which case, you must take 21 elective credits)

______ Black Family (SOC or AAS 314), Prejudice (SOC or AAS 317), or Ethnic Relations (SOC or AAS 428)
(fulfills co-requisite for criminal justice as an approved ethnic minorities course)

______Criminology
(CRJ 494 [required for CRJ major] is accepted as a sociology elective)

______Any upper division 300/400 level course in sociology (fulfills co-requisite for criminal justice)

______Three (or four, if SOC 200 taken elsewhere) additional elective courses

* C or higher required for SOC major