Criminal Justice

How can we control crime? How should we treat criminals? What factors in our society affect either the spread or the control of crime? What roles do individuals, law enforcement officials, and human service professionals play in criminal justice? Explore these issues from a well-balanced perspective by enrolling in the University of Hartford's Criminal Justice degree program.

Our skills based program, which emphasizes internships and cooperative education will prepare you well to seek interesting work in almost any level of government, including probation and court administration or rehabilitation services and counseling. In the private sector, there are opportunities in corporate security, program analysis, research, counseling, and insurance investigation. Or you may choose to go on to law school or to graduate school to study criminal justice or sociology.

As part of this interdisciplinary program, you'll take courses in sociology, politics and government, psychology, education, and philosophy. Throughout all your courses, you'll be grappling with the complexities of crime and social control in the context of human values.

As a Criminal Justice major, you will take several core courses including Social Responses to Crime; Methods of Social Research; Deviance; Criminology; and Crime, Law and the Administration of Justice. This program gives you the flexibility to concentrate on a specific area within criminal justice, such as law, law enforcement, or human service intervention.

Before you graduate, you will take an off-campus internship of six credit hours with a criminal justice agency or organization. You may intern with local police departments, courts, prosecutors, and probation departments, or work in community correctional facilities, counseling centers, research planning agencies, or youth service bureaus. This practical experience will help you sharpen your career focus, as you add valuable work experience to your resume.

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