Prepare for a career promoting a safe, healthy, and just society. The Bachelor of Arts in Criminology and Criminal Justice at UAA provides a clear pathway to graduate study, law school, criminal justice jobs, and lifelong engaged citizenship.
CRIMINOLOGY AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE
Our graduates are ready to pursue a variety of careers providing direct services, service support, and organizational leadership to public, private, and governmental organizations. Potential career pathways include:
WHY CHOOSE criminology and criminal justice AT UAA?
Engage in real-world research as an undergraduate student. In the UAA Justice Center, you can study diverse topics in crime, law, and justice, particularly related to urban and rural Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ.
On top of UAA’s Anchorage and community campuses, you also can take online courses on a flexible schedule without commuting to campus. The same faculty who teach in person also teach online!
Justice faculty have earned their doctoral degrees from top-ranked universities across the country. They are recognized as experts in their specialized areas of teaching and research.
Get involved with groups and activities that match your professional and personal interests, such as the Society of Law & Justice or Alpha Phi Sigma.
NEWS & Stories
With the recent opening of the John E. Havelock Trial Simulation Courtroom, students now have access to a premier, experiential learning environment to master their craft. The courtroom will also serve as a community resource where Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ’s legal professionals can hold practice trials and conduct continuing education and training.
With the recent opening of the John E. Havelock Trial Simulation Courtroom, students now have access to a premier, experiential learning environment to master their craft. The courtroom will also serve as a community resource where Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ’s legal professionals can hold practice trials and conduct continuing education and training.
The newly opened Havelock Trial Simulation Courtroom provides UAA students and others with hands-on, experiential learning in a setting identical to courts in which they will eventually practice law. The classroom is named after John E. Havelock, founding director of the UAA Justice Center.
The newly opened Havelock Trial Simulation Courtroom provides UAA students and others with hands-on, experiential learning in a setting identical to courts in which they will eventually practice law. The classroom is named after John E. Havelock, founding director of the UAA Justice Center.
The John E. Havelock Trial Simulation Courtroom officially opened on the UAA campus, expanding hands-on training opportunities for students pursuing legal careers in Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ. University faculty, staff, and students gathered on Feb. 20 to celebrate the classroom's formal dedication an opening.
Message from the program CHAIR
If you are interested in why people commit crime, why some behaviors are criminalized and others are not, how society responds to crime, how to reduce crime, or how to help victims, you will love the Bachelor of Arts in Criminology and Criminal Justice program. We offer online and face-to-face courses on a wide variety of topics, such as juvenile justice, policing, courts, jails and prisons, offender re-entry, criminological theory, victimization, criminal investigation, forensic science, crime prevention, ethics in the criminal justice system, criminal law, and criminal justice research.
Our faculty are engaged in research and community service on issues that directly affect Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æns, such as intimate partner violence, sexual assault, homelessness, correctional populations, policing and behavioral health, and police use of deadly force. These experiences are brought into the classroom so that students are connected to what is really happening with criminal justice in Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ.
Graduates of our program serve all over the state to keep Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æns safe. Some work in police agencies, like the Anchorage Police Department or Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ State Troopers, or in corrections at the Department of Corrections, Division of Juvenile Justice, or Division of Probation and Parole. There are vibrant nonprofit and commercial sectors that work in areas directly and indirectly related to criminal justice, and our graduates are successful finding meaningful careers there. Many of our graduates continue their studies, earning masters or doctoral degrees, or going to law school and becoming attorneys.
Contact us today to talk about how you can be part of leading Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ toward a safer, healthier, and more just society.
— Sharon Chamard, Ph.D
PROGRAM INFORMATION
Contact Us:
Phone: (907) 786-1810
Email: uaa_justicecenter@alaska.edu
UAA Justice Center
UAA Professional Studies Building
2533 Providence Dr., Suite 234
Anchorage, Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ 99508
Mailing Address:
UAA Justice Center
3211 Providence Dr., PSB 234
Anchorage, Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ 99508
