The information below is offered by the Department. Official program requirements and course descriptions, above, are the most recent available.

PBJ 102 - Introduction to Human Services
PBJ 202 - Helping Skills
PBJ 300 - Topics in Public Justice
PBJ 325 - Poor and the Courts
PBJ 330 - Crime and the Media
PBJ 345 - Criminal Investigation
PBJ 347 - Crime and Society
PBJ 348 - Criminal Evidence
PBJ 350 - Proseminar in Public Justice
PBJ 351 - Report Writing in Public Justice
PBJ 360 - Discrimination in the Workplace
PBJ 361 - Family Law
PBJ 363 - Women and the Law
PBJ 365 - Introduction to Criminal Law
PBJ 366 - Organized Crime
PBJ 367 - Women and Crime
PBJ 377 - Suicide, Assisted Suicide, & Euthenasia
PBJ 383 - Terrorism and Homeland Security
PBJ 385 - Drugs and Crime
PBJ 387 - Research Methods & Data Analysis
PBJ 400 - Advanced Topics in Public Justice
PBJ 425 - Comparative Justice Systems
PBJ 460 - Current Problems in American Law
PBJ 461 - Children & the Law
PBJ 463 - American Indian Law & Federal Indian Policy
PBJ 454 - Religion, Crime, and Justice
PBJ 399 - 99 - Independent Study in Public Justice
PBJ 466 - Criminal Law & Procedure II

(See the College Catalog for Independent Study requirements.)

Other electives will be added from time to time. Check with the Undergraduate Advisement & Advance Registration Bulletin for the semester you are registering for. Additionally, the following restrictions apply to the Public Justice major program:

• Public Justice majors may transfer to SUNY Oswego [directly into the PBJ major] a maximum of six (6) upper division elective hours in the major from an accredited four-year or upper division college.
• Public Justice majors may transfer to SUNY Oswego [directly into the PBJ major] a maximum of six (6) lower division elective hours in the major from an accredited two- or four-year college.
• To declare a Public Justice major, a student must have completed at least 30 semester hours with a minimum cumulative grade point average determined by the annual demand for admission to the major. Students must have a cumulative average of at least 2.0 to apply.
• To complete the major, the student must earn a grade of C- or better in each Public Justice core course and must maintain a minimum 2.0 average in all Public Justice major electives. This minimum 2.0 average will not be waived under any circumstances.
• Students must complete all previous Public Justice courses with a grade of C- or better in order to be admitted to each successive core course in the required sequence.
• Admission to Public Justice core courses after PBJ 201 requires prior departmental approval.
• Repeated "D" or "E" Policy: Any student who receives a "D" or "E" grade in a Public Justice core course must repeat that course before continuing on in the required core sequence. Any student repeating a core course in which he or she received a grade of "D" or "E", and who receives a second "D" or "E" in the same course, may not repeat that course again without prior Public Justice Department approval according to the procedure outlined below:

Procedure:

• The student submits a petition for approval to repeat the core course to the Public Justice Department Chairperson.
• The Chairperson will appoint a committee of three Public Justice core faculty to consider the student's petition and decide whether to permit the student to repeat the core course for a third time.
• The student may be consulted as to his or her choice of faculty to serve on the committee.
• The committee's decision in the matter is considered final.

Any Public Justice core course that must be repeated must be taken at SUNY-Oswego.