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, quantitative and analytical scores on the GRE and the applicant's undergraduate grade point average. The applicant's grade point average during the last two years of undergraduate study will be taken into consideration. 

Program Requirements*:

Required Core: 

CJCR 5000 Criminological Theory	3 credits
CJCR 5005 Ethics and Social Justice	3 credits
CJCR 5010 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 3 credits 
Electives 12 credits 

Non-Thesis Option: 
Electives 18 credits 

Total credits required for the degree: 33-36 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 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 semester later. No student will be allowed to re-take the examination more than one time. 

Persons interested in the CJ&C Graduate program should contact Dr. Whitehead, and refer to the Office of Graduate Admissions website for further details. 

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* this list of requirements in no way supercedes or invalidates the requirements listed in the ETSU Graduate Catalog; it is meant to be a simple, helpful guide. Consult the catalog for the authoritative list of requirements.

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