College's catalog - Trinity Christian College

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CRIMINAL JUSTICE
B. Breems (chair), D. Connelly
Programs of Study
The criminal justice program provides a Christian liberal arts and social scientific basis, addressing
the field of criminal justice from a biblically restorative perspective. It aims to honor biblical and
social bases of law and the need for justly ordered society. Further, it recognizes that laws are not
isolated from other social institutions and structures, so that the legal and social justice systems
require practitioners who are well educated, resolute, just, and seasoned with Christian love. We
seek to provide the criminal justice system with competent and compassionate professionals who
afford not only punishment but restoration of those who break laws and even greater restitution
for the general society and victims of crimes.
Graduates of this major will have an applied emphasis and will take their places within the criminal
justice field with a biblical basis from which to conduct their work in society. They will be prepared
to not only labor within existing systems, but also to present alternatives that lead to remediation,
rehabilitation, and restoration of justice and peace to the greatest extent possible in an imperfect world.
The Criminal Justice major consists of 33 credit-hours, plus 15 credit-hours of cognate courses,
for a total of 48 credit-hours. A minimum six hours of field education are required. In addition
to Field Education, the program will also have an applied emphasis in at least six other courses,
either by hosting practitioners or requiring student outside practice and visits. The College’s oral
communication requirement is met by enrolling in the cognate Communication Arts 101, and the
capstone experience is embedded in the Senior Seminar course.
The criminal justice major consists of 48 total hours:
Criminal Justice 121, 201, 202, 301, 302, 303, 304, 400, 410;
One from: Criminal Justice 305, 306, or 310;
Required Cognates: (15 hours)
Communication Arts 101, Mathematics 151, Sociology 121, 353;
One from: Political Science 241, 250, Psychology 322
The criminal justice minor consists of 18 hours:
Criminal Justice 121, 201, 202, 304;
Criminal Justice electives (6 hours)
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