Health Science and Criminal Justice, BS (Boston)

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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

Science Requirement

• 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
• All of:
  • CHEM 1161 — General Chemistry for Science Majors
  • CHEM 1162 — Lab for CHEM 1161
  • CHEM 1163 — Recitation for CHEM 1161
• MATH 1241 — Calculus 1
• PSYC 1101 — Foundations of Psychology

Introduction to Crime, Law, and Justice System

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

Criminal Justice Electives

From the catalog

Current Criminal Justice System Issues

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

• From the catalog

  Crime Problems and Criminal Justice Institutions

  Complete one of the following:

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

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  Crime Problems

  Complete one of the following:

• One of:
  • CRIM 3010 — Criminal Violence
  • CRIM 3030 — Global Criminology
  • CRIM 3050 — Organized Crime
  • CRIM 3060 — Political Crime and Terrorism
  • CRIM 3070 — Corporate and White-Collar Crime
  • CRIM 3100 — Criminal Law
  • CRIM 3540 — Substance Use and Social Justice

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  Systemic Issues

  Complete one of the following:

• One of:
  • CRIM 3110 — Gender, Crime, and Justice
  • CRIM 3120 — Race, Crime, and Justice

Additional Criminal Justice Electives

52 semester hours.

From the catalog

Complete three courses from the CRIM 3001 to 5999 range that are not used to fulfill other requirements of this program.

Introduction to College

From the catalog

Complete one course from home college:

• Choose 1 semester hours from:
  • CRIM 1000 — Criminal Justice at Northeastern
  • HSCI 1000 — College: An Introduction

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 3040 — Psychology of Crime

Capstone

From the catalog

Complete one of the following, based on home college:

• Choose 3 semester hours from:
  • Bouvé College of Health Sciences
    • 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
  • College of Social Sciences and Humanities
    • 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 SH) as prerequisite.
• Junior/Senior Honors Project 1 (HSCI 4970) will count as 4 SH general elective.

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