Criminology

All Criminology majors must take Criminology and Penology (SOC 3200). It is the gateway course to the Criminology major. Criminology majors are required to take 10 courses: five required courses (including Criminology and Penology) and five elective courses.

The following five courses are required of all Criminology majors:

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

The Department strongly recommends that Criminology majors take SOC 4600 and SOC 4740 by the end of their junior year.

Criminology majors’ five elective courses may be chosen from the following list of regularly offered courses:

SOC 3040        Juvenile Delinquency
SOC 3050W     Female Deviance, Crime and Social Control
SOC 3060        White Collar Crime
SOC 3350        Alternative Approaches to Criminal Justice
SOC 3370        Urban Sociology
SOC 3380W     Race, Class and Crime
SOC 3430        Criminal Justice and Mental Health
SOC 3500        Domestic Violence
SOC 3700        Hate Crimes
SOC 3900        Sociology of Incarceration

 

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

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:

PHL 2500        Theories of Justice
PHL 3020        Philosophy of Law
PHL 3030        Global Justice 
POL 3150        Criminal Law
POL 3151        American Constitutional Law
PSY 3340        Developmental Psychopathology
PSY 3410        Adult Psychopathology