Summer 2025 Courses
The criminal justice certificate is an interdisciplinary certificate in which you take courses from a variety of departments. Because of this, not all courses are listed on the “select from section” of your dars report.
Please refer to the list below for the most accurate list of courses offered that fulfill certificate requirements. If a course indicates a dars exception is needed, it means that the course will not automatically show up on your dars report if enrolled. If you enroll in a course that needs a dars exception, please email cjcp@ssc.wisc.edu
Group 1 – Criminal Justice System
Legal Studies/Sociology 131: Criminal Justice in America
Group 2 – Theories of Crime and Deviant Behavior
Social Work 612: Psychopathology in Generalist Social Work Practice
Sociology 441: Criminology
Group 3 – Crime and Justice/Operations of the Justice System
Legal St./Hist 235: Prisons: From Antiquity to Supermax (dars exception needed)
Legal Studies/Soc/GWS 425: Crime, Gender & Justice
Legal St/Hist 426: History of Punishment
Group 4 – Broader Psycho/Social/Economic Process Related to Criminal Justice
Legal Studies 160: Truth and Crime (dars exception needed)
Legal Studies/GWS 422: Women and the Law
Legal Studies 444: Law in Action
Psychology 405: Adult Psychopathology
Social Work 646: Child Abuse and Neglect
Group 5 – Ethnography – Internship Prep
Coun Psy 225: Intersectionalities- (Ethnic St)
Coun Psy 237: Mental Health, Self-Awareness, and Social Justice: Working in Diverse Communities
Coun Psy 655: Clinical Communication Skills
Inter-HE 202: Careers and Leadership Dev (SOHE Majors only)
Inter-LS 210: L&S Career Development
Group 6 – Field Work/Internship Seminar: (these courses require advance preparation/permission to enroll per department)
Legal St 694: Field Observation in Criminal Justice & Legal Studies
– (only available to students currently enrolled in pre-internship canvas site. If you have an internship for Summer 2025 and you are not enrolled in pre-internship canvas site, please email cjcp@ssc.wisc.edu)
– This course is 3 credits and offered every semester. Students are enrolled in legal studies 694 at the same time they are interning.
– In order to get permission to enroll in legal studies 694, students must participate in a pre-internship process that typically begins the semester before a student wants to enroll in legal studies 694 and intern.
Below are opportunities in other departments that will fulfill the Group 6 requirement. Please refer to each program’s requirements for admission:
Legal Studies 473 (application required: link to website)
Political Science 315: Legislative Internship
Psych 621: Mentored Research and Seminar
Public Affairs 327: Administrative Internship
**For students who declared Fall 2023 and later, one course of the above should focus on race/justice studies. This is marked by **
Fall 2024 Courses
Major and Certificate overviews
Group 1: Criminal Justice System
Legal Studies/Sociology 131: Criminal Justice in America
Group 2: Theories of Crime and Deviant Behavior
Legal Studies 400: Punishment and Society (dars exception needed)
Psychology 526/586: The Criminal Mind: Forensic & Psychobio Perspect
Sociology 441: Criminology
Group 3: Crime and Justice/Operations of the Justice System
Legal Studies 135: Disability and the Criminal Justice System
Legal Studies/GWS/Soc 425: Crime, Gender, Justice
Legal Studies 426: History of Punishment
**Legal Studies 400: Criminal Injustice in America
Political Science 401: Politics and Crime (dars exception needed)
**Legal Studies/ChicLa/Sociology 440: Ethnicity, Race and Justice (ethnic st)
Psychology 401: Psychology, Law, & Social Policies
Psychology 601: Prisoner Re-Entry (dars exception needed)
Group 4: Broader Psycho/Socio/Economic Processes Related to Criminal Justice
**AfAm 671: Origins of Black Movements (Ethnic St)
**AfAm 671: Criminalizing Blackness (Ethnic St)
Legal Studies/English 160: Truth and Crime
**History 143: History of Race and Inequality in Urban America (Ethnic St)
**Human Development & Family St 474: Racial Ethnic Families in U.S. (Ethnic St)
Legal Studies 444: Law in Action
Legal Studies 641: Sociology of Law
Political Science 349: Global Access to Justice (dars exception needed)
Psychology 405: Adult Psychopathology
Social Work 420: Poverty and Social Welfare
Social Work 453 Substance Use Disorders
Social Work 523: Family Violence
Social Work 623: Interpersonal Violence
Social Work 646: Child Abuse and Neglect
**Sociology 633: Social Stratification
Group 5: Ethnography-Internship Prep
Counseling Psych 225: Intersectionalities, Self -Awareness, And Social Actions For Social Change – (restricted to students with first or second year standing)
Counseling Psych 237: Mental Health, Self-Awareness, and Social Justice: Working in Diverse Communities
Counseling Psychology 620: Interviewing
Counseling Psychology 655: Clinical Communication Skills
Inter-HE 202: Careers and Leadership Dev (SOHE Majors only)
Inter-LS 210: L&S Career Development
Inter-LS 215: Communicating about Careers (Comm B)
Political Science 316: Careers in Political Science
Sociology 205: Intercultural Dialogues
Social Work 441: Generalist Practice; Individuals, Families & Groups (SW Majors only)
Group 6: Fieldwork/Internship Seminar- All Internships must be Criminal/Juvenile Justice/Law/Policy Related
Legal St 694: Field Observation in Criminal Justice & Legal Studies
- This course is 3 credits and offered every semester. Students are enrolled in legal studies 694 at the same time they are interning.
- In order to get permission to enroll in legal studies 694, students must participate in a pre-internship process that typically begins the semester before a student wants to enroll in legal studies 694 and intern.
Below are opportunities in other departments that will fulfill the Group 6 requirement. Please refer to each program’s requirements for admission. Internships must be criminal/juvenile justice/legal/policy related.
Sociology 320: Community-Engaged Research for Solving Urban Problems
Gender & Women’s St 660: Internship in Gender & Women’s Studies
Human Development & Family Studies 601: Internship
Political Science 315: Legislative Internship
Psychology 412: Field Experience in Psychology. More information can be found here.
Rehab Psychology & Special Ed 630: Internship in Rehabilitation or Special Ed
Social Work 401: Field Practice and Integrative Seminar I