Criminology

All Criminology majors must take Criminology and Penology (SOC 3200). It is the gateway course to the Criminology major. In addition to this course, Criminology majors are required to take a minimum of nine courses from among the Department’s Criminology offerings. Thus students must 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 3200        Criminology and Penology
• SOC 4600        Research Methodology (Fall course)
• SOC 4740        Statistical Analysis (Spring course)
• SOC 3120        Sociology of Law (Theory)
• SOC 4861 or 4866    Criminology Internship  

The Department strongly recommends that students majoring in Criminology take SOC 4600 and SOC 4740 during 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 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 2050        Social Work
• SOC 4300        Social Class in America (Spring course)
• 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
• POL 3150        Criminal Law
• POL 3151        American Constitutional Law
• PSY 3340        Developmental Psychopathology
• PSY 3410        Adult Psychopathology