Program Requirements

Required Courses for the Criminology Major

Required courses (21)
CRIM 112 Criminology
CRIM 115 CC Crime and Punishment
CRIM 230 CC Prison Nation
SOCI 101D P3 Introduction to Sociology
SOCI 223 Sociology of the Family
SOCI 280C Social Research Methods
CRIM 415 Capstone
Advanced Criminology (9)
Choose three: CRIM 308 Women and Crime
CRIM 312 Punishment Perspectives
CRIM 322 Socio-Legal Foundations of U.S. Criminal Justice
CRIM 330 Special Topics in Criminology
CRIM 342 Convict Criminology
CRIM 343 Juvenile Justice
CRIM 362 Police and the Law
Electives (12)
Choose four: ANTH 106D P5 Cross-Cultural Interaction
ANTH 226 P2 Anthropology of Law
SOCI 111C P3 Sociology of Crime
SOCI 232C P3 Juvenile Delinquency
SOCI 238 Deviant Behavior
SOCI 307C Sociology of Law
SOCI 314 U.S. Race Relations
SOCI 315 Our Gendered World
SOCI 381 Thinking Sociologically
SOCI 385 Regulating the Addicted and Impaired
STAT 160 P4 Data Analysis and Social Research
CRIM 335 Crime and the Media
CRIM 490 Internship
CRIM 496 Independent Study
Total (42)

A student may double-major in Criminology and Sociology but only the two courses specifically required in each major—SOCI 101D and SOCI280C—may be counted in both majors as dictated by the current College policy.

There is no minor in Criminology.

Students who major in Criminology and minor in Sociology may only apply SOCI 101D to both; all other courses in the Sociology minor must be different from those courses applied to the Criminology major.

For students majoring in Criminology, all courses that may apply to the major requirements are included in the determination of the grade point average in the major.