The Criminal Justice Administration Minor is a structured minor that requires the completion of 18 units, 9 of which must be for upper division credit. The requirements are as follows:
PA 206 -- Public Policy and Administration (3 units)
Description: Theory and practice of executive agencies, including policy making and other functions, processes, personnel and fiscal management, and administrative law.
Pima Community College equivalent: P AD105
PA 241 -- Criminal Justice Administration (3 units)
Description: Theory and practice of criminal justice organizations: police, courts and correctional institutions.
Pima Community College equivalent: AJS 101
Complete a minimum of 9-12 units from these options:
PA 336 -- Court Administration and Management (3 units)
Description: This three-unit, interactive course involves a study of various courts from limited magistrate to federal, with surveys of jurisdictional levels, administration, and personnel. Attention will be given to the function of courts, problems administering them and public perception. Specialized courts will also be discussed, e.g., drug court. In addition to judges, lawyers, and staff, the role of the civilian will be addressed, with studies of how these participants interact.
PA 341 -- Juvenile Delinquency (3 units)
Description: Nature, causes, and consequences of delinquent behavior.
PA 342 -- Criminology (3 units)
Description: Study of the social origins of criminal law, criminal behavior, and reactions to crime.
PA 343 -- The Crime Problem (3 units)
Description: Theory and research on the nature, causes and control of crime from an interdisciplinary perspective.
PA 344 -- Legal Aspects of the Criminal Justice Process (3 units)
Description: Analysis of selected principles of criminal law, criminal procedure and correctional law.
PA 349 -- History of Crime in America, 1607-present (3 units)
Description: A history of crime in America from early Virginia through the present, with emphasis on violent crime, regional differences in crime, chronological changes, and causes of the same
PA 441 -- Women and Youth in the Justice System (3 units)
Description: Examines the treatment of juveniles and women in the American criminal justice system.
PA 446 -- Crime and Public Policy (3 units)
Description: Role of government in the prevention and control of crime.
PA 496L -- Governance and Security, and the Response to Terrorism (3 units)
Description: Course integrates security issues into study of policy, public administration, and governance.
PA 496M -- Intelligence and US National Security (3 units)
Temporary course: offered during F all 2004 only.
Description: Overview of the role of intelligence in the formulation and execution of US national security policy.
No more than 6 units from:
POL 309 -- The Judicial Process (3 units)
Description: Structure, function, and processes of the "third branch" of the American government.
POL 436 -- Violent Crime and Political Order (3 units)
Description: Description and analysis of how and why people wield, and respond to, authority. Based on presumption that people's reactions to the public order are influenced by the private order-or disorder-of their minds and the way they learned to respond to the private authorities of their childhoods.
POL 470 -- Constitutional Law: Federalism (3 units)
Description: Development and analysis of constitutional law of the U.S.; problems of distribution of powers.
POL 471 -- Constitutional Law: Civil Liberties (3 units)
Description: Analysis of the constitutional guarantees of civil liberties in the U.S.
PSYC 413 -- Drugs, Brain and Behavior (3 units)
Description: Physiological, neurotoxic and behavioral effects of drugs on individual neurotransmitter systems in the brain. Special emphasis will be given to the historical use and political significance of the major drugs of abuse.
SOC 420 -- Communication and the Legal Process (3 units)
Description: Presents a number of accomplishments and ch all enges in the social scientific study of law, with special emphasis on the effects of communication and social structure on the legal processes.
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9
units must be completed
in residence, 9
units must be upper
division, and any
transfer work must
be approved through
the Eller College
Undergraduate Programs
Office. (See
pre-approved of
transfer courses
http://www.registrar.arizona.edu/Preapproval.htm)
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Students
in the 2004-2005
catalog or more
recent must also
have a minimum
grade point average
(GPA) of 2.0 within
the minor.
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Eller
does not permit double
use of courses in
their majors with
majors or minors
outside of the college,
nor double use of
courses in their
minors with majors
outside of the college.
Unique units are
required for the
student’s major
and minor. One
exception: Students
who complete a second
degree MAY use courses
from their first
degree (from the
Eller College major)
in the GBUS minor
for their second
degree from another
college.
