Requirements

General Requirements for the Major or Minor

General university degree requirements stipulate that 1) three units of the minor be taken in residence at the University of Puget Sound; 2) students earn a GPA of 2.0 in courses taken for the minor; and 3) all courses taken for the minor must be taken for graded credit. Any exceptions to these stipulations are indicated in the minor degree requirements listed below.

Requirements for the Minor in Crime, Law, and Justice Studies

The minor is 5 Units

  • REQUIRED: CLJ 220 Introduction to Crime Law and Justice Studies
  • REQUIRED:
    • CLJ 307/REL 307 Prisons, Justice, Education
      or
    • CLJ 370 Prisons and Public Memory. If you take both of these classes, one may count as an elective
  • Three Electives (in at least two different areas one of which may be EXLN 296)

Law

  • AFAM 346 African Americans and American Law
  • BIOE 306 Health Law
  • COMM 346 Rhetoric and the Law
  • HIST 343 Law, Society and Justice in China
  • PG 313 American Constitutional Law
  • PG 315 Law and Society
  • PG 316 Civil Liberties
  • PG 333 International Law in Political Context
  • PHIL 378 Philosophy of Law
  • REL 320 Law and Religion

Social Justice

  • AFAM 304 Capital and Captivity: African Americans and the U.S. Economy
  • AFAM 320 Race, Power, and Privilege
  • CLJ 370 Prison Archives and Public Memories: Researching the Incarceration of Women and Girls in Washington
  • CONN 318 Crime and Punishment
  • PG 304 Race and American Politics
  • PG 345 Intersectionality as Theory and Method
  • REL 265 What is Justice?
  • REL 270 Religion, Activism and Social Justice
  • REL 307 Prisons, Gender and Education

Crime, Policing and the Carceral State

  • CLJ 370 Prison Archives and Public Memories: Researching the Incarceration of Women and Girls in Washington
  • CONN 318 Crime and Punishment
  • ENGL 247 Introduction to Popular Genres Topic: Detective Fiction
  • ENGL 358 True Crime in the U.S.
  • PG 311 Politics of Detention: Criminal Justice, Immigration, and the War on Terror
  • PG 330 Peace, Justice, and Reconciliation in Latin America
  • PHIL 370 Social and Political Philosophy
  • REL 307 Prisons, Gender and Education
  • SOAN 206 Theories of Deviance and Social Control
  • SOAN 314 Criminology
  • STHS 354 Murder and Mayhem under the Microscope