Doctoral of Philosophy in Criminal Justice

Texas State University, San Marcos

Advising Checklist

_________CJ 7210 Proseminar

Doctoral Criminal Justice Core (12 hours required):

_________CJ 7310 Philosophy of Law, Justice, and Social Control

_________CJ 7311 Advanced Criminological Theory

_________CJ 7312 Criminal Justice Ethics, Administration, and Public Policy

_________CJ 7313 Race and Ethnicity in Crime and Criminal Justice

Research Tools (12 hours required):

_________CJ 7320 Quantitative Research Methods

_________CJ 7321 Linear Regression for Criminal Justice Research

_________CJ 7322 Advanced Research for Planning and Evaluation

Choose one of the following two courses from the Qualifying Elective courses to fulfill the fourth class requirement:

CJ 7330 Qualitative Research Methods

CJ 7336 Survey Research Methods for Criminal Justice

Qualifying Electives (6 hours selected from the following):

Students must complete two courses totaling six credit hours from Qualifying Electives prior to taking their comprehensive examinations.  These courses will be chosen with the assistance and approval of the Doctoral Coordinator.  Students may not duplicate a course used for the Research Tools requirement to satisfy the Qualifying Elective requirement.

CJ 7330 Qualitative Research Methods

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 7336 Survey Research Methods for Criminal Justice

CJ 7337 Comparative Criminal Justice Systems, Philosophies, and Public Policy

Doctoral Development Electives (9 hours selected from the following):

After completing the qualifying exams, doctoral students are required to complete three additional courses totaling 9 credit hours from Doctoral Electives.  These courses will be chosen with the assistance and approval of the Doctoral Coordinator and the student’s dissertation advisor.

CJ 7350 Special Topics in Advanced Scholarship and Integrated Methods

            CJ 7350A Forecasting, Trend Analysis, and Data Interpretation

            CJ 7350B Academic Scholarship and Communication

            CJ 7350C Qualitative Data Collection, Coding, and Analysis

            CJ 7350D Ethnography of Criminal Justice

CJ 7351 Special Topics in Technology and Applied Systems

            CJ 7351A Technology for Management and Decision Making

            CJ 7351B Justice and Global Information Technology

            CJ 7351C Transnational Public Policy and Security

Dissertation (12 hours required):

_________CJ 7199 Dissertation

_________CJ 7399 Dissertation