Doctoral Required Courses
The Ph.D. in Criminal Justice requires students to complete, at minimum, 51 credit hours. Below is a list of required courses and advising checklist. For course descriptions please follow this link: Ph.D. Course Descriptions
Doctoral of Philosophy in Criminal Justice
Texas State University
Advising Checklist
| HOURS | ||
| First-Year Required Courses | 12 | |
| CJ 7311 | Advanced Criminological Theory | |
| CJ 7320 | Quantitative Research Methods | |
| CJ 7321 | Linear Regression for Criminal Justice Research | |
| CJ 7323 | Applied Statistics and Quantitative Data Analysis | |
| Area Electives | 12 | |
| Criminal Justice System (Choose one of the following) | ||
| CJ 7310 | Philosophy of Law, Justice, and Social Control | |
| CJ 7312 | Criminal Justice Ethics, Administration, and Public Policy | |
| CJ 7314 | Policing | |
| CJ 7315 | Corrections | |
| Advanced Statistics (Choose one of the following) | ||
| CJ 7350A | Forecasting, Trend Analysis, and Data Interpretation | |
| CJ 7350E | Discrete Multivariate Models | |
| CJ 7350I | Introduction to Structural Equation Modeling | |
| Advanced Research Methods (Choose one of the following) | ||
| CJ 7322 | Advanced Research for Planning and Evaluation | |
| CJ 7330 | Qualitative Research Methods | |
| CJ 7336 | Survey Research Methods for Criminal Justice | |
| Nature and Causes of Crime (Choose one of the following) | ||
| CJ 7313 | Race and Ethnicity in Crime and Criminal Justice | |
| CJ 7350F | Environmental Criminology | |
| CJ 7350G | Seminar in Macro Criminology | |
| CJ 7350L | Sex Offenders: Theory, Research & Policy | |
| Other Electives | 12 | |
| (Choose four courses from below, or above courses not chosen to meet requirements) | ||
| CJ 7331 | Law and Behavioral Science | |
| CJ 7332 | Law and Public Policy | |
| CJ 7333 | Legal and Legislative Research | |
| CJ 7334 | Organizational Theory | |
| CJ 7335 | Criminal Justice Leadership and Management | |
| CJ 7337 | Comparative Criminal Justice Systems, Philosophies, and Public Policy | |
| CJ 7350B | Academic Scholarship and Communication | |
| CJ 7350C | Qualitative Data Collection, Coding, and Analysis | |
| CJ 7350D | Ethnography of Criminal Justice | |
| CJ 7350J | Advanced Methodological Paradigms in Criminal Justice | |
| CJ 7350K | Criminal Justice Forecasting and Policy Analysis | |
| CJ 7360 | Independent Study | |
| Additional Requirement | 3 | |
| CJ 7309 | Proseminar | |
| Dissertation | 12 | |
| CJ 7199 | Dissertation | |
| CJ 7299 | Dissertation | |
| CJ 7399 | Dissertation | |
| CJ 7599 | Dissertation | |
| CJ 7699 | Dissertation | |
| CJ 7999 | Dissertation | |
| Total Hours | 51 | |