Criminal Justice and Criminology, M.A.

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General Program Information

www.etsu.edu/cas/cj/

Graduate School Contact:

Gail Powers; powers@etsu.edu; 423-439-4703

John T. Whitehead, Ph.D., Chair

201 Rogers-Stout Hall
Box 70555
(423) 439-5604
e-mail: whitehej@etsu.edu

Nicole Prior, Ph.D., Graduate Coordinator

201A Rogers-Stout Hall
Box 70555
(423) 439-6662
e-mail: priorn@etsu.edu

Faculty:

Michael Braswell; Larry Miller; Nicole Prior; John Whitehead.

The Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology offers the Master of Arts degree, which is designed to enhance student understanding of crime, societal reaction to crime, and efforts to control it. It prepares the student for advancement in criminal justice professions, teaching at the community college level, and study at the doctoral level.

Program Admission Requirements

Admission decisions are based on the applicant’s combined verbal and quantitative scores on the GRE and the applicant’s undergraduate grade point average. For example, an undergraduate grade point average of 3.00, a combined score of 850 on the verbal and quantitative portions of the GRE for exams on record before August 2011 (or the concordant equivalent as determined by the Educational Testing Service for scores on record on or after August 1, 2011), are sufficient for admission to the graduate program.

Required Core

CJCR 5000 - Criminological Theory (3 credits)
CJCR 5005 - Ethics and Social Justice (3 credits)
CJCR 5010 - The American System of Justice (3 credits)
CJCR 5040 - Law, Society, and Criminal Justice (3 credits)
CJCR 5850 - Research Design in Criminology (3 credits)
CJCR 5950 - Quantitative Methods in Criminology (3 credits)

Thesis Option

CJCR 5960 - Thesis (1-3 credits) or
Electives (12 credits)

Non-Thesis Option

Students must successfully pass a comprehensive examination. The examinations will consist of written essays graded by the graduate faculty of the department. Students who have completed 27 credit hours and ALL core courses within the program of study are eligible to take the comprehensive examination. The student must apply to take the examination by the end of the third week of the fall or spring semester in which the examination is to be administered. Students failing any part of the comprehensive examination will be permitted to reschedule the examination no sooner than one (1) semester later. Examinations are not administered during the summer. In the event of a second failure of any exam area(s), the student will be required to repeat coursework supporting those failed areas prior to a final examination attempt. Any third attempt at the comprehensive examination will be final; students failing the third attempt will be dismissed from the program.

Electives (18 credits)