MPA/MSCJS Dual Degree

Master

In massachusetts (USA)

Price on request

Description

  • Type

    Master

  • Location

    Massachusetts (USA)

  • Duration

    Flexible

  • Start date

    Different dates available

The Suffolk MPA/MS in Crime & Justice Studies will give you a dual degree in fields that directly impact public policy and safety. Armed with a solid background in leadership, public policy, and the American judicial system, you’ll be ready to tackle major challenges within the crime and justice arena.
The expedited dual program will help you complete both degrees in less time thanks to shared electives and balanced coursework. You’ll graduate ready to make a difference in any community and shape policy in the given field in which you want to operate.

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Subjects

  • IT Law
  • Public
  • Leadership
  • MPA
  • Nonprofit
  • Quantitative Analysis
  • Financial Training
  • Financial
  • Law
  • Administration
  • Financial resources
  • Human Resource management

Course programme

MPA Requirements: 10 courses, 30 creditsMPA Core (6 courses, 18 credits)
  • P.AD-711 Foundations of Public Service and Administration
  • P.AD-713 Managing Financial Resources
  • P.AD-716 Public Service Human Resource Management
  • P.AD-717 Organizational Change
  • P.AD-718 Leadership Strategies for an Interconnected World
  • P.AD-890 Strategic Management
MPA Electives (4 courses, 12 credits)

Choose any four PAD courses at the 800- or 900-level elective courses.

Students must complete 30 credit hours in the Institute for Public Service; PAD and CJS electives are not interchangeable.

Students with no professional public management experience must take:

  • P.AD-859 Public Service Internship

PAD-859 will count as an elective.

Students who take CJ-786 or CJ-787 do not need to take PAD-859 and can take an additional MPA elective.

MSCJS Requirements: 8 courses, 24 creditsCrime & Justice Studies Core (4 courses, 12 credits)
  • CJ-681 Crime and Communities
  • CJ-701 Seminar in Crime & Justice
  • CJ-702 Research Methods
  • CJ-709 Quantitative Analysis
Dual degree students may take either CJ-709 Quantitative Analysis or the equivalent PAD-715 Quantitative Analysis; students who opt to take PAD-715 must take another Crime & Justice Studies elective in order to fulfill MSCJS credit hours.Crime & Justice Studies Electives (4 courses, 12 credits)

Choose four of the following:
  • CJ-685 Seminar in Corrections
  • CJ-686 Seminar in Juvenile Justice
  • CJ-687 Justice & the Community Courts
  • CJ-688 Restorative Justice
  • CJ-691 Intimate Violence & Sexual Assault
  • CJ-692 Criminal Justice Policy
  • CJ-694 Critical Victimology
  • CJ-695 Special Topics
  • CJ-698 Community-Based Responses to Violence Against Women
  • CJ-704 Legal Issues in Criminal Justice System
  • CJ-705 Class, Race, Gender & Justice
  • CJ-730 Bad Girls?
  • CJ-731 Youth Programming
  • CJ-734 Youth Gangs
  • CJ-783 Practicum in Crime & Justice Studies I
  • CJ-784 Practicum in Crime & Justice Studies II
  • CJ-786 Internship in Crime & Justice Studies I
  • CJ-787 Internship in Crime & Justice Studies II
  • CJ-910 Independent Study
  • GVT-741 Drug Policy: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Public Administration Graduate Courses
  • P.AD-711 Foundations of Public Service and Administration
  • P.AD-712 Information Based Management
  • P.AD-713 Managing Financial Resources
  • P.AD-715 Quantitative Analysis
  • P.AD-716 Public Service Human Resource Management
  • P.AD-717 Organizational Change
  • P.AD-718 Leadership Strategies for an Interconnected World
  • P.AD-810 Public Sector Admin Law
  • P.AD-811 Politics of Federal Bureaucracy
  • P.AD-814 Collaborative Public Management
  • P.AD-815 Nonprofit Management
  • P.AD-816 Seminar in Public Policy
  • P.AD-817 Administrative Strategies of State and Local Government
  • P.AD-819 Grant Writing and Management
  • P.AD-822 Public Management Information Systems
  • P.AD-823 The U.S. Health System
  • P.AD-827 Financing State & Local Government
  • P.AD-828 Public Service Communication
  • P.AD-831 Civic Innovation and Citizen Engagement
  • P.AD-832 Health Policy
  • P.AD-838 Ethics in Public Service
  • P.AD-839 Leadership and Decision Making in Action
  • P.AD-842 Workplace and Labor Law
  • P.AD-847 Nonprofit Financial Management
  • P.AD-848 Nonprofit Law and Ethics
  • P.AD-849 Revenue Strategies for Nonprofits
  • P.AD-859 Public Service Internship
  • P.AD-861 Data to Policy
  • P.AD-862 Leading Change: State Policy
  • P.AD-890 Strategic Management
  • P.AD-900 Special Topics
  • P.AD-910 Individual Study in Public Service
Crime & Justice Studies Courses
  • CJ-681 Crime and Communities
  • CJ-685 Seminar in Corrections
  • CJ-686 Seminar in Juvenile Justice
  • CJ-687 Justice & the Community Courts
  • CJ-688 Restorative Justice
  • CJ-691 Intimate Violence & Sexual Assault
  • CJ-692 Criminal Justice Policy
  • CJ-694 Critical Victimology
  • CJ-695 Special Topics
  • CJ-698 Community-Based Responses to Violence Against Women
  • CJ-701 Seminar in Crime & Justice
  • CJ-702 Research Methods
  • CJ-704 Legal Issues in Criminal Justice System
  • CJ-705 Class, Race, Gender & Justice
  • CJ-709 Quantitative Analysis
  • CJ-730 Bad Girls?
  • CJ-731 Youth Programming
  • CJ-732 Adolescent Risks and Resilience
  • CJ-734 Youth Gangs
  • CJ-783 Practicum in Crime & Justice Studies I
  • CJ-784 Practicum in Crime & Justice Studies II
  • CJ-786 Internship in Crime & Justice Studies I
  • CJ-787 Internship in Crime & Justice Studies II
  • CJ-910 Independent Study

Additional information

Cost Per Credit (2019-2020) - $1,217

MPA/MSCJS Dual Degree

Price on request