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Criminology (Undergraduate)

The undergraduate plan in Criminology leads to the bachelor of science (BS) degree.

The academic goal of the plan is to provide students with an understanding of crime: why it occurs, how it is measured and how it might be controlled.  An additional goal is to help students develop the skills needed to obtain successful careers within the criminal justice system or advance in their current careers.

General Education Requirements

The following nine hours must be completed with grades of “C” or better. Grades of “C-“ or below are not acceptable.
Three semesters in *WRIT 3037 Advanced Writing
Six semester hours selected from Basic Texts in the Western Tradition I and II and Basic Texts III: Non-Western Tradition:
HUMN 3031, HUMN 3033 and HUMN 3035 or
Three semester hours in Basic Texts (HUMN 3031, HUMN 3033 or
HUMN 3035) and one of the following courses:

• ARTS 3831 — West Art: Prehist thru Middle Ages
• ARTS 3832 — West Art: Ren to Contemp Art
• LITR 3334 — Mythology
• PHIL 3331 — Ethics
• PHIL 3433 — Phil and Knowledge
• PHIL 4134 — The Great Philosophers I
• PHIL 4135 — The Great Philosophers II

Six semester hours in statistics and research methodology are required.  This requirement is ordinarily met by taking the two-semester sequence

PSYC 4631/PSYC 4632 Research Design and Statistical Measurement I and II or SOCI 4631/SOCI 4632 Research Design and Statistical Measurement I and II or equivalent.  These courses should be taken in the first year. 

Three semester hours in a course on minorities selected from the  following:

• CRIM  4xxx — Race and Crime
• SOCI  4137 — Race and the Law
• SOCI 4535 — Minorities in America

Six hours of the overview courses in criminology:

• CRIM 3132 — Criminology
• CRIM 3335 — Deviance

Three hours of the overview courses in sociology selected from the following:

• *SOCI 3135 — Sociological Thinking
• SOCI 4132 — Social Structure
• SOCI 4232 — Theories of Society

Three hours of the overview courses in anthropology selected from the following:

• ANTH 3131 — Contemporary Cultural Anthropology
• ANTH 4532 — World Prehistory and Archaeology

Three hours in psychology selected from the following:

• PSYC 3331 Theories of Personality
• PSYC 4131 — Social Psychology

A minimum of 12 hours from the following courses in criminology or other electives with the approval of the student’s academic advisor:

• CRIM 4133 — Juvenile Delinquency
• CRIM 4135 — The Death Penalty
• CRIM 4331 — Prison and Society
• CRIM 4332 — Sociology of Law
• CRIM 4334 — Criminology Law

*Pending Coordinating Board approval    

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