Criminology

All Criminology majors must take Criminology and Penology ( SOC 3200). It is the gateway course to the Criminology major. Beyond this course, students who major in Criminology are required to take a minimum of nine four-credit courses from among the Department’s Criminology offerings. Thus students must take 10 courses:  five required courses (including Criminology and Penology) and five other criminology/sociology or cognate courses as electives.

The following five courses are required of all criminology majors:

• SOC 3200    Criminology and Penology
• SOC 4600    Research Methodology
• SOC 4740    Statistical Analysis
• SOC 3120    Sociology of Law (Theory)
• SOC 4861 or 4866    Criminology Internship  

Beyond the five courses required of all majors, students select five other criminology or sociology courses as electives.

Criminology Elective Courses:

• SOC 3040    Juvenile Delinquency
• SOC 3050    Female Deviance, Crime and Social Control
• SOC 3060    White Collar Crime
• SOC 3330    Racial and Ethnic Minorities
• SOC 3350    Alternative Approaches to Criminal Justice
• SOC 3370    Urban Sociology
• SOC 3430    Criminal Justice and Mental Health
• SOC 3500    Domestic Violence

Only two of the five elective courses can include the following:

• SOC 2002    Social Problems
• SOC 2050    Social Work
• SOC 4300    Social Class in America
• SOC 4810/4815    Directed Study

One elective can be chosen from the following list of cognate courses. Cognates are courses that are related to the field of Criminology, but offered outside of the Department of Sociology.

• PHL 2500    Theories of Justice
• PHL 3020    Philosophy of Law
• POL 3150    Criminal Law
• POL 3151    American Constitutional Law
• PSY 3340    Developmental Psychopathology
• PSY 3410    Adult Psychopathology