Beyond the basic required courses, you can pursue advanced courses in many areas including the historical, international, social science, and legal facets of criminal justice studies, including juvenile and criminal justice processes of our local, state and federal government.

Criminal Justice studies emphasizes the key components of police, courts, corrections and juvenile justice in the criminal justice processes of our local, state and federal government.

The Criminal Justice program from the University of South Dakota maintains close working relations with other related disciplines, and our faculty have considerable experience as prosecutors, probation or corrections officers and police officers at every level of government.

You'll find our grads at work anywhere issues of justice and law enforcement arise such as law firms, federal agencies, child welfare, private investigation and national defense. Our grads also work for local and regional law enforcement agencies such as police, state patrol, border patrol and others.