2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
    Oct 04, 2024  
2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog

Criminal Justice B.S., Rehabilitation and Restoration Concentration


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The Rehabilitation and Restoration Concentration is designed to provide Criminal Justice majors with a more in-depth and focused understanding of criminal offenders and correctional approaches that can be taken to reintegrate them as prosocial members of society. This concentration will be particularly relevant to dual Criminal Justice/Psychology majors and Criminal Justice majors with a Psychology minor, but is open to all Criminal Justice students as well.

Requirements for the Criminal Justice Major


The Criminal Justice major consists of 42 credits. All students must complete at least 21 credits of Criminal Justice coursework at Westfield State University. There are six required courses in the major (Major Core) that comprise 18 of the 42 required credits. All Criminal Justice majors must complete the Major Core courses with a minimum grade point average of 2.5, and no grade in any of the Major Core courses may be below a C-. Students may repeat any of these courses in order to meet this requirement, in accordance with the University’s Course Repeat Policy.

  • Students are not required to take a concentration for the Bachelor of Science in Criminal Justice Degree
  • Students may take only one concentration for the Bachelor of Science in Criminal Justice Degree, even if they have completed the coursework for more than one concentration

Requirements for Rehabilitation and Restoration Concentration


UPPER-DIVISION ELECTIVES

Students choose upper-level electives in the major to complete 21 credits for the major, 18 of these upper-division elective credits must be from the courses listed below, to complete the 42-credit requirement. Students may take any other 3 upper-division credit Criminal Justice elective to complete the 21-credit upper-division credit requirement for the major. While encouraged to take Psychology courses, students should take note of prerequisites for each. Psychology courses taken for this Concentration will not apply to the required 39 credits in Criminal Justice required for Criminal Justice majors.

Additional Graduation Requirements


All students must meet the University Graduation Requirements  and complete a general education or common core of studies, distributed among the different academic areas as detailed in General Education: WISE  or Common Core .

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