Criminology Major

A major in Criminology consists of 45 hours, including introductory courses (12 hours), criminology core courses (21 hours), major electives (9 hours), and
a capstone course (3 hours):


Introductory Courses (12 hours)		credits
PS 233	Law & Society	3
EC 102	Microeconomics	3
PSY 101	General Psychology	3
SOC 101	Introduction to Sociology	3

Criminology Core Courses (21 hours)

EC 320	Economics of Crime	3
PS 232	Criminal Law	3
PSY 242	Personality	3
PSY?352 or PSY 355	Psychopathology or Forensic Psychology	3
SOC 222	Criminology	3
PS 261 or SOC 371	Concepts and Methods in Political Science or Methods of Social Research	3
PS 265 or SOC 373	Quantitative Reasoning in the Social Sciences	3

Major Electives (9 hours)

PS 332	Civil Rights and Liberty	3
PSY 352 or PSY 355	Psychopathology or Forensic Psychology	3
SOC 215	Family Violence	3
SOC 223	Drugs and Alcohol in American Society	3
SOC 225	Juvenile Delinquency	3
SOC 226	Corrections, Probation, and Parole	3
SOC 228	Deviance and Social Control	3
SOC 235	Corrections Counseling	3

Capstone (3 hours)

SOC 390

Senior Capstone in Sociology

Up one level:

Division of Behavioral & Social Sciences