Courses

TAMIU’s 49-hour doctoral degree includes 22 hours of required coursework: CRIJ 6101*, CRIJ 6302*, CRIJ 6303*, CRIJ 6340*, CRIJ 6304, CRIJ 6361, CRIJ 6351, CRIJ 6390, six hours of research portfolio (CRIJ 6396 and 6397), and six hours of dissertation (CRIJ 6398 and 6399).

All required courses are provided in Table 1. The remaining hours are elective courses selected from the doctoral program’s offerings. Students can choose electives from a list of homeland security-centered courses in addition to traditional criminal justice courses. To complete the degree of study, 15 hours of elective coursework must be taken in any combination. All course electives are provided in Table 2.

Table 1. Course of Study
Year	Semester	Course Prefix/number	Course Title	Course Hours
1	1*	CRIJ 6101	Proseminar in Criminal Justice	1
	1*	CRIJ 6302	Advanced Research Methods in Criminal Justice	3
	1*	CRIJ 6303	Advanced Quantitative Statistics: Multiple Regression	3
	1*	CRIJ 6340	Seminar in Criminological Theory	3
1	2	CRIJ 6304	Advanced Qualitative Methods	3
	2	CRIJ 6361	Program and Policy Evaluation in Criminal Justice	3
	2	CRIJ 6390	Teaching Seminar	3
2	3	CRIJ 6351	Criminal Law and Procedure	3
	3	Elective 1	Elective—see Table 2	3
	3	Elective 2	Elective—see Table 2	3
2	4	Elective 3	Elective—see Table 2	3
	4	Elective 4	Elective—see Table 2	3
	4	Elective 5	Elective—see Table 2	3
3	5**	CRIJ 6396	Research Portfolio I	3
	6**	CRIJ 6397	Research Portfolio II	3
4	7**	CRIJ 6398	Dissertation I	3
	8**	CRIJ 6399	Dissertation II	3
Total				49

*First semester is entirely face-to-face; classes are held at night throughout the workweek
**Students must meet with faculty once a semester to ensure continued progress towards degree

Table 2. Total PhD Course Electives
Course Prefix/Number	Course Title
CRIJ 6305	Time Series Analysis
CRIJ 6306	Advanced Mixed Methods
CRIJ 6307	Seminar in Corrections
CRIJ 6308	Contemporary Criminal Justice Issues
CRIJ 6309	Seminar in Law Enforcement
CRIJ 6311	Neighborhoods, Crime, and Mapping
CRIJ 6320	Homeland Security
CRIJ 6321	Human Trafficking and Smuggling
CRIJ 6325	Cybercrime
CRIJ 6330	Immigration and Crime
CRIJ 6335	Advanced Topics in Victimology
CRIJ 6355	Intelligence Gathering
CRIJ 6356	Terrorism
CRIJ 6357	International Criminal Court
CRIJ 6365	Criminal Justice Management
CRIJ 6391	Special Topics in Criminal Justice

For more information, contact Criminal Justice co-directors Dr. Daniel Scott (daniel.scott@tamiu.edu, 956.326.2626) and Dr. Fei Luo (fei.luo@tamiu.edu, 956.326.2622).

Contact

Department of Social Sciences
Academic Innovation Center 313
Phone: 956.326.2475 | Email: brenda.martinez@tamiu.edu