Criminal Justice and Public Health, BS (Boston)

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Criminal Justice Requirements

From the catalog
Introduction to Crime, Law, and Justice System

CRIM 1100 — Introduction to Criminal Justice
CRIM 1110 — Criminal Due Process
CRIM 1120 — Criminology

Current Criminal Justice Issues

From the catalog
Complete one of the following:

One of:
- CRIM 1300 — The Death Penalty
- CRIM 1400 — Human Trafficking
- CRIM 1500 — Corruption, Integrity, and Accountability
- CRIM 1700 — Crime, Media, and Politics

Crime Problems and Criminal Justice Institutions

From the catalog
Complete one of the following:

One of:
- CRIM 2310 — Courts: The Third Branch of Government
- CRIM 2320 — Youth Crime and Justice
- CRIM 2330 — Punishment in the Age of Mass Incarceration
- CRIM 2350 — Policing a Democratic Society
- CRIM 2370 — Restorative Justice: Transforming the System
- CRIM 2380 — Black Families and Incarceration

Crime Problems

From the catalog
Complete one of the following:

One of:
- CRIM 3010 — Criminal Violence
- CRIM 3030 — Global Criminology
- CRIM 3040 — Psychology of Crime
- CRIM 3050 — Organized Crime
- CRIM 3060 — Political Crime and Terrorism
- CRIM 3070 — Corporate and White-Collar Crime
- CRIM 3100 — Criminal Law
- CRIM 3120 — Race, Crime, and Justice
- AFCS 3210 — Black Abolition Studies: Carcerality, Liberation, and Resistance
- CRIM 3540 — Substance Use and Social Justice

Additional Criminal Justice Electives

12 semester hours.

From the catalog
Complete three additional courses from the range CRIM 3001–CRIM 5999.

Public Health Core

One of:
- PHTH 1260 — The U.S. Healthcare System
- PHTH 1261 — Comparative Healthcare Systems
One of:
- PHTH 2300 — Communication Skills for the Health Professions
- PHTH 2301 — Communication Skills for the Health Professions—Global
One of:
- PHTH 2350 — Community and Public Health
- PHTH 2351 — Community and Public Health - Global
PHTH 2515 — Healthcare Policy and Administration
PHTH 4120 — Global Perspectives on Discrimination and Health
PHTH 4540 — Health Education and Program Planning

Biology

From the catalog
Complete one of the following options:
Option 1
Option 2

One of:
- Option 1 — all of:
  - One of:
    - BIOL 1141 — Microbes and Society
    - BIOL 1143 — Biology and Society
  - BIOL 1147 — The Human Organism
- Option 2 — all of:
  - All of:
    - BIOL 1111 — General Biology 1
    - BIOL 1112 — Lab for BIOL 1111
  - All of:
    - BIOL 1113 — General Biology 2
    - BIOL 1114 — Lab for BIOL 1113

Psychology

PSYC 1101 — Foundations of Psychology

Introductory Course

From the catalog
Complete one of the following:

One of:
- ANTH 1101 — Peoples and Cultures
- COMM 1225 — Communication Theory
- ECON 1115 — Principles of Macroeconomics
- ECON 1116 — Principles of Microeconomics
- ENGL 1300 — Introduction to Health and Humanities
- HUSV 1101 — Social Change and Human Services
- INTL 1101 — Globalization and International Affairs
- PHIL 1101 — Introduction to Philosophy
- POLS 1160 — International Relations
- SOCL 1101 — Introduction to Sociology

Upper-Level Course

From the catalog
Complete one of the following: (categories provided for reference):
Society and Behavior
Globalization and Global Health
Environmental Health and Climate Change
Law, Policy, and Human Rights
Healthcare Administration and Management

One of:
- Society and Behavior — all of:
  - ANTH 3441 — Medical Anthropology
  - COMM 3201 — Health Communication
  - COMM 4102 — Health Communication Campaigns
  - HLTH 5280 — The (in)Visibility of (dis)Ability in Society
  - PHTH 5222 — Health Advocacy
  - PSYC 3402 — Social Psychology
  - PSYC 3404 — Developmental Psychology
  - PSYC 3450 — Learning and Motivation
  - SOCL 3241 — Violence and Society
  - SOCL 3441 — Sociology of Health and Illness
  - SOCL 4520 — Race, Class, and Gender
- Globalization and Global Health — all of:
  - AFCS 3424 — Epidemiology of Pandemic Diseases and Health Disparities in the African Diaspora
  - ECON 3404 — International Food Policy
  - One of:
    - INTL 3200 — Cities in a Global Context
    - INTL 3201 — Cities in a Global Context (Abroad)
  - INTL 3400 — International Conflict and Negotiation
  - POLS 3487 — Politics of Developing Nations
- Environmental Health and Climate Change — all of:
  - COMM 3500 — Environmental Issues, Communication, and the Media
  - ECON 3423 — Environmental Economics
  - One of:
    - INTL 5100 — Climate and Development
    - PPUA 5100 — Climate and Development
  - PPUA 5238 — Climate Change and Global Urbanization
- Law, Policy, and Human Rights — all of:
  - ECON 3424 — Law and Economics
  - PHIL 5001 — Global Justice
  - PHIL 5002 — Ethics and Public Policy
  - POLS 3307 — Public Policy and Administration
- Healthcare Administration and Management — all of:
  - ECON 3413 — Health Economics and Healthcare Policy
  - MGMT 3340 — Healthcare Management, Innovation, and Design
  - ORGB 3201 — Organizational Behavior
  - PHTH 4511 — Healthcare Management
  - PHTH 5232 — Evaluating Healthcare Quality
  - PHTH 5234 — Economic Perspectives on Health Policy

Introduction to College

From the catalog
Complete one of the following, based on home college:

One of:
- CRIM 1000 — Criminal Justice at Northeastern
- HSCI 1000 — College: An Introduction

Digital Skills

All of:
- CS 2000 — Introduction to Program Design and Implementation
- CS 2001 — Lab for CS 2000

Statistics

From the catalog
Complete one of the following:

One of:
- CRIM 3700 — Analyzing and Using Data on Crime and Justice
- INSH 3102 — Introduction to Statistics in the Social Sciences
- PHTH 2210 — Foundations of Biostatistics

Research Methods

From the catalog
Complete one of the following:

One of:
- CRIM 3600 — Criminal Justice Research Methods
- PHTH 4202 — Principles of Epidemiology in Medicine and Public Health

Integrative Course

CRIM 3110 — Gender, Crime, and Justice

Capstone

From the catalog
Complete one of the following, based on home college:

Choose 3 semester hours from:
- Bouvé
  - HINF 5301 — Evaluating Health Technologies
  - HSCI 4720 — Health Science Capstone—Service
  - HSCI 4730 — Health Science Capstone—Research
  - HSCI 4740 — Health Science Capstone Seminar
  - HSCI 4970 — Junior/Senior Honors Project 1
  - HSCI 4971 — Junior/Senior Honors Project 2
  - PHTH 4515 — Critical Issues in Health and Public Health Policy
  - PHTH 4602 — Private Guns, Public Health
  - PHTH 4616 — Addressing Rural Health Inequities
  - PHTH 4717 — Advancing Health Justice Through the Law
  - PHTH 4818 — Let’s Talk About Sex: Exploring Key Topics and Current Issues in Sexual and Reproductive Health
  - PHTH 5214 — Environmental Health
  - PHTH 5230 — Global Health
  - PHTH 5236 — Food, Nutrition, and Health
  - PHTH 5560 — Public and Community Health Program Evaluation
  - PHTH 5603 — Qualitative Methods
- CSSH
  - CRIM 4949 — Senior Capstone Seminar

Substitutions

Stated by the catalog on this program's requirements:

Must complete Capstone Project Design and Planning (HSCI 4700) (0 semester hours) as prerequisite.
Junior/Senior Honors Project 1 (HSCI 4970) will count as a 4-semester-hour general elective.

Possible equivalents for this program beyond the above — dashed means a suggestion, not a rule, and every substitution needs your advisor's approval:

INTL 5100 ↔ PPUA 5100 (tier B)

What the tiers mean

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