Course Information
Schedule Your Courses
The first thing to consider when scheduling your first semester is to factor in coursework that does not count towards your credit total, but must be completed, in case you have been accepted with conditions. Some of you must take our undergraduate statistics course, STA250. STA250 will not count towards your GPA and thus it is recommended that you take it pass/no credit (you must file a form with Jay Express Services at the beginning of the semester to do this: https://jstop.jjay.cuny.edu/forms/Pass-%20No%20Credit.pdf) OR email your Academic Advisor to obtain the form. If you receive benefits from the Office of Military and Veterans Services and are required to take STA 250 as a condition of your acceptance, you MUST additionally file the Veteran Graduate Student Authorization for Undergraduate Courses and submit it to the veteran certifying official in the Office of Military and Veterans Services. Please email your advisor to obtain the form.
Elective courses may be selected from the themed lists below or from any of the graduate courses offered at John Jay and CUNY, subject to the approval of the graduate program director. Electives offerings will vary every semester and new electives may be developed. Graduate courses not on the list below (whether offered at John Jay, other CUNY colleges, or at other universities) MUST be approved by the graduate program director on a case-by-case basis as electives. ALL non-prefixed ICJ courses are subject to spacing and the approval of the respective program director (Criminal Justice/Psychology/Public Administration, etc.) for registration approval - even if it is an approved elective.
In addition, students may use their 12 elective credits to complete courses toward the Advanced Certificate in Transnational Organized Crime Studies (ACTOCS) or Terrorism Studies or take a combination of different electives chosen from the list of approved electives below. Students who have completed 15 credits and have a GPA of 3.5 or above are eligible to take the following electives: Internship (6 credits) and Thesis I/Thesis II (6 credits). The thesis elective is taken over a two semester sequence as ICJ 791 and ICJ 792.
The internship course (ICJ 780) is an online course that is accompanied by a mandatory 280 hours in an internship site. Placements in internship sites are arranged at the initiative of the student in consultation with the Center for Career and Professional Development and the program director. Students interested in the internship elective should start their search for an internship site at least one semester in advance. Students are encouraged to pursue one or more internships during their graduate studies, even if they are not taking the internship elective course, potentially as an Independent Study (3 credits).
Required Courses
The Master of Arts in International Criminal Justice requires 36 credits consisting of eight required core courses (24 credits) and four electives (12 credits; see the list of courses below).
- ICJ 700 International Crime and Justice Theory
- ICJ 701 Illegal Markets and Economic Justice
- ICJ 702 Comparative CRJ Systems
- ICJ 703 International Criminal Law
- ICJ 704 Crime, Justice and Cultural Struggles
- ICJ 706 Transnational Crime
- ICJ 715 Applied Research Methods in International Crime and Justice
- ICJ 770 Capstone Course in International Crime and Justice
Electives may be selected from the list below or from any of the graduate courses offered at John Jay and CUNY, subject to the approval of the graduate program director
Approved Electives
Current List of ICJ Electives (updated September 1, 2024)
ICJ 705 Human Rights and Counterterrorism
ICJ 720 Crime and Justice in the Balkans
ICJ 721 International Perspectives on Women in Criminal Justice
ICJ 725 Environmental Crime
ICJ 726 Drug Trafficking
ICJ 728 History of Genocide
ICJ 729 Organized Crime: An International Perspective
ICJ 730 Human Trafficking
ICJ 735 Gender Justice for Conflict Related Sexual and Gender-Based Violence
ICJ 750 Special Topics in International Crime and Justice
ICJ 755 Terrorism and Transnational Crime
ICJ 760/SEC 760 Information Technology and Cybercrime
ICJ 762 Corruption and the Global Economy
ICJ 765 Intelligence in National Security and Policing
ICJ 780 Internship Course (6 credits)
ICJ 791 International Crime and Justice Thesis I
ICJ 792 International Crime and Justice Thesis II
ICJ 794 International Crime and Justice Independent Study
ICJ 798 Faculty-Mentored Research in International Crime and Justice
CRJ 713 White-Collar Crime
CRJ 727/FCM 727 Cybercriminology
CRJ 739 Crime Mapping
CRJ 744 Terrorism and Politics
CRJ 746 Terrorism and Apocalyptic Violence
CRJ 759 Comparative Police Administration
CRJ 784 Organized Crime
CRJ 789 Violence Across the Globe
CRJ 797 Homeland Security and International Relations
CRJ 798 Homeland Security and Terrorism
HR 701 International Human Rights: Organizations and Institutions
HR 711 Human Rights and Humanitarianism
HR 712 Civil and Political Rights and Civil Liberties
HR 713 Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
PAD 718 International Public Policy and Administration
PAD 746 Comparative Public Administration
PAD 772 International Inspection and Oversight
PSY 705 Victimology
PSY 729 Terrorism
PSY 746 Empirical Profiling Methods
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