Criminal Justice: BS with Legal Studies Concentration

Program Outcomes

• Students will demonstrate foundational knowledge of key areas of organizational functioning.
• Students will articulate their knowledge of law and procedure and the processes that guide them in the legal/criminal justice systems.

Legal Studies Concentration Learning Outcomes:

• Students will prepare effective legal documents.
• Students will perform legal research and communicate the results clearly and concisely.
• Students will apply principles of legal ethics in a work environment.
• Students will analyze substantive and procedural issues which arise under the law.
   

Curriculum and Degree Requirements

The minimum number of units necessary to receive the Bachelor of Science in Criminal Justice with Legal Studies Concentration degree, including courses for the major, the business core, general education, and free electives, exclusive of foundation courses is 120 units.

Curriculum Plan

Foundation Courses

15 units*
*Requirement will be determined by placement testing

• EN 090T - Review of English
• EN 100T - English Fundamentals
• SC 090T - Review of Math
• SC 100T - Math Fundamentals
• MS 100T - Fundamentals of Microcomputers

General Education

45 units

• CU 101T - Student Success
    
  3 units
• Two (2) each from Groups 1 and 3
  12 units
  1. Oral/Written/Visual Communication (must take EN150T and EN230T to ensure Oral Communication unless comparable courses have been taken/transferred in)
  3. Math/Data Analysis - must choose College Math and another course which fits the needs of the student’s chosen major/profession
• Two (2) each from Groups 2, 4, and 5
  18 units
  2. Arts/Humanities
  4. Natural/Physical Sciences
  5. Social/Behavioral Sciences
• General Education Electives - choose four (4) from groups 1 - 5
  12 units

Business Core

27 units

• AC 201T - Accounting Principles I
• EC 201T - Macroeconomics
• EC 202T - Microeconomics
• FN 211T - Introduction to Investments
• LA 200T - Contracts, Agency, Partnerships, Corporations
• MG 200T - Administrative Management
• MK 201T - Introduction to Marketing
• MS 182T - Introduction to Information Systems
• PH 306T - Business Ethics

Major Core

45 units

• PA 351T - Introduction to Law for the Paralegal
• PA 352T - Introduction to Legal Research and Writing
• PA 353T - Debtor/Creditor Relations
• PA 354T - Business Organizations
• PA 355T - Wealth Transfer
• PA 356T - Civil Trial and Appellate Practice
• PA 357T - Real Estate Law for the Paralegal
• PA 373T - Criminal Law and Procedure
• PA 376T - Family Law
• PA 450T - Computer Use in the Law
• PA 452T - Legal Research and Writing II
• PA 491T - Health Care Law
• PA 492T - Current Environmental Issues
• PA 494T - Alternate Dispute Resolution
• PA 499T - Paralegal Senior Seminar

Free Electives

3 units