Minor Requirements

Minor Programs in Anthropology, Criminal Justice and Sociology

One-half of all credits in a minor must be taken at Rutgers-Camden.

Important Note for Soc and CJ Majors: Degree Navigator does not always handle our minor programs correctly when combined with either a sociology or a criminal justice major. It may count the same courses for both the major and minor, which is not allowed. Consult with an advisor to make sure that your program meets the conditions below.

Anthropology Minor Requirements (18 credits)

18 credits in anthropology (070) courses

Note for Sociology Majors: For sociology majors wishing to minor in anthropology, special conditions apply. Since sociology majors will already have taken Introduction to Cultural Anthropology and either Psychological Anthropology or Individual and Society, only 12 further credits (not applied to the sociology major) are required, for a total of 48 credits.

Criminal Justice Minor Requirements (21 credits)

202:201 Criminal Justice in American Society (3 cr.)

920:316 Race & Ethnicity or 920:332 Social Stratification (3 cr.)

202:202 Police and Policing (3 cr.)
202:203 Prisons and Prisoners (3 cr.)
202:204 Courts and Criminal Law (3 cr.)

Two out of three of these courses

Plus nine additional credits from any courses in criminal justice or from designated courses in sociology

Note for Sociology Majors: For sociology majors wishing to minor in criminal justice, special conditions apply. None of the 21 credits required for the Criminal Justice minor may be applied to the sociology major with the exception of either Race & Ethnicity (920:316) or Social Stratification (920:332), which is required for both. However, the required number of elective courses for the sociology major is reduced from six to four, for a total of 48 credits for the combined sociology major/cj minor.

Students interested in criminal justice may also want to consider the interdisciplinary Justice and Society minor.

Sociology Minor Requirements (18 credits)

18 credits in sociology (920), anthropology (070), and/or criminal justice courses (202)

Note for Criminal Justice Majors: For students majoring in criminal justice and minoring in sociology, 6 of the required 18 credits can be satisfied by the sociology courses that criminal justice majors are required to take. The 12 remaining credits required for the minor must be sociology or anthropology courses (i.e. courses with a 920 or 070 prefix) and cannot also be used to satisfy requirements for the criminal justice major, resulting in a total of 54 credits.