 Criminal Justice Minor Internship
As part of the 18-credit minor, the student must complete three credits of fieldwork in a criminal justice setting. The student is responsible for obtaining an internship, identifying a faculty supervisor, and enrolling in the field experience course in the faculty supervisor's department.
The fieldwork must take one of the following forms. There are no substitutions.
- HDFS 3080 (288) Supervised Field Experience,
- INTD 3590 (210) Urban Field Studies,
- POLS 3991 (297) Supervised Field Work,
- SOCI 3990 Field Experience,
- PSYC 3880 (294) Field Experience, or
- Another 2000-level or higher internship or field work course with field study done in a criminal justice setting approved in advance by the student's criminal justice advisor.
- Students who are employed full time within a criminal justice setting may have the Group III requirement waived by their Criminal Justice Advisor when employment is documented by their supervisor.
“In a criminal justice setting” is a crucial phrase.
This means that you must work in one of the institutions of the criminal justice system (e.g. the courts, prisons, probation service, police) or work with an agency that interacts on a day-to-day basis with such criminal justice system institutions (e.g. criminal defenders, advocacy groups, education and prevention groups, others that work with juvenile and adult delinquents or at risk populations).
To satisfy the criminal justice minor requirements, your fieldwork must be off-campus. Any fieldwork proposed for credit in the minor that is not entirely off-campus in a criminal justice setting must be approved in advance by one of the criminal justice minor advisors or the coordinator.
If you are not certain that your proposed internship will meet the requirement of the criminal justice minor, please contact an advisor or the coordinator.
Keep your eyes open for internship fairs and career fairs to which law enforcement or public sector agencies send representatives.
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