Criminal Justice (BA)
The mission of Dallas Baptist University is to provide Christ-centered quality higher education in the arts, sciences, and professional studies at both the undergraduate and graduate levels to traditional age and adult students in order to produce servant leaders who have the ability to integrate faith and learning through their respective callings.
Criminal Justice is the study of crime and of the agencies concerned with its prevention and control. We, as a Christ-centered educational institution, are dedicated to integrating faith and learning with professional knowledge and skills. Students will be trained to enforce the law not only on a fair and just basis but also under the guidance of Biblical standards and in the scope of God's love.
Goals of the Criminal Justice Major
Provide students with knowledge of the general scope of crime in America and of the criminal justice system.
Prepare students for their careers in areas of law enforcement, the judicial system, corrections, homeland and organizational security, social services, and juvenile justice or preparation for competition at the graduate level or law school.
Instruct students in the societal standards of ethics along with divine truth and Christian doctrines and how these principles apply to the enforcement of the law in practice.
Have in-service Christian instructors to provide a variety of disciplines, cases, and experiences as a reference, so that students may successfully cultivate Christ-centered servant leadership in their careers of protection and service.
Recruit Christian students with a vision and burden to enter this field. Also, recruit qualified in-service officers for our program to be trained as criminal justice agents who are Christ-centered with a servant attitude.
DEGREE REQUIREMENTS
courses | credit hours (ba) |
|---|---|
DBUE 1301 - Foundations for the DBU Experience | 3 |
Developing A Christian Mind | 3 |
English | 9-10 |
ENGL 1301/1401 - Composition and Rhetoric I ENGL 1302 - Composition and Rhetoric II and ENGL 2301 - World Literature I or ENGL 2302 - World Literature II | |
Fine Arts | 3 |
History Lower Level (LL) | 3 |
Choose one 3-hour course from HIST LL Course List. | |
Kinesiology | 1 |
KNES 1101 - Fitness for Living | |
Mathematics (3-hour LL course) | 3 |
Choose one: MATH 1301 - Math for Liberal Arts (Requisite: scores or completion of MATH 1300) MATH 1303 - College Algebra (Requisite: scores or completion of MATH 1300) MATH 1307 - Finite Math for Business Analysis (Requisite: scores or completion of MATH 1300) | |
Natural Science (3-4 hour LL course) | 3-4 |
Choose one 3-4-hour course from Nat. Lab Science LL Course List. | |
Religion | 9 |
RELI 1301 - Old Testament Survey RELI 1302 - New Testament Survey and one additional RELI course from RELI Course List. | |
Social Science | 3 |
POLS 2301 - American National Government | |
Total Core Experience | 40-42 |
Additional Program General Education Hours | 12 |
CRJS 1301 - Crime in America Choose one 3-hour course from HIST LL Course List. Choose two 3-hour 2000-level courses in the same language from LANG/BL Language Course List. | |
Major Core | 27 |
For those students who have not attended college and taken criminal justice core courses, or who have not attended a certified Texas Law Enforcement Academy; requirements include: CRJS 1302 - Introduction to Criminal Justice (S-L) CRJS 2304 - Fundamentals of Criminal Law CRJS 2305 - The Courts and Criminal Procedure CRJS 4301 - Ethics in Law Enforcement CRJS 4303 - Organization and Administration CRJS 4307 - Criminology CRJS 4317 - Research Methods Please select two upper level Criminal Justice courses. | |
Electives | |
Upper-Level Lower or Upper-Level | 15 24-26 |
TOTAL CREDIT HOURS REQUIRED | 120 |
A 120-credit-hour minimum for a bachelor's degree is required, including 36 upper-level credit hours.
At least 12 credit hours in the major program must be completed at Dallas Baptist University, including nine upper-level course hours.
Minimum GPA Required for Graduation from Dallas Baptist University
DBU requires a minimum institutional cumulative, major, and minor GPA of 2.0.
(S-L) = Course(s) with field-based service-learning component.
Refer to individual course descriptions for course requisites.
COURSE DESCRIPTIONS
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