Requirements for a Sociology Minor
Minimum of 20 quarter hours of course work (five 4-credit classes). Sociology minors must take Understanding Social Life (SOCI 1810).
Internship option: Students with a 3.0 GPA (or higher) may use a supervised, pre-approved, internship experience in an appropriate community agency (as determined by the Sociology/Criminology Internship Director) as a substitute for up to 4 (maximum) elective credits toward the minor. (Prerequisites apply.)
Pre-law and pre-social work students will find a minor in sociology especially helpful to their long-term career goals.
Program note: Students may not double-major, double-minor, or major-minor in both sociology and criminology.
Requirements for a Criminology Minor
Minimum of 20 quarter hours of criminology-related courses (five 4-credit classes). Criminology minors must take Understanding Social Life (SOCI 1810), Criminology (SOCI 2250), and a minimum of three (3) elective courses from the following list:
- Juvenile Delinquency (SOCI 2255)
- Deviance and Society (SOCI 2260)
- Crime and Inequality (SOCI 2710)
- Sociology of Law (SOCI 2750)
- Legal Actors and Institutions (SOCI 2755)
- Discipline and Punishment (SOCI 2760)
- The Female Offender (SOCI 2765)
- Kids and Courts (SOCI 2770)
- Wrongful Conviction (SOCI 2775)
- Women and the Law (SOCI 2780)
- Family and the Law (SOCI 2785)
- Policing Society (SOCI 2790)
- Capital Punishment (SOCI 2795)
- Drugs and Society (SOCI 2820)
- White-Collar Crime (SOCI 2830),
- Crime and the Media (SOCI 2855), and
- selected topics approved by the Chair
Internship option: Students with a 3.0 GPA (or higher) may use a supervised, pre-approved, internship experience in an appropriate community agency (as determined by the Sociology/Criminology Internship Director) as a substitute for up to 4 (maximum) elective credits toward the minor. (Prerequisites apply.)
Students interested in law or law-enforcement will find a minor in criminology especially helpful to their long-term career goals.
Program note: Students may not double-major, double-minor, or major-minor in both sociology and criminology.
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IMPORTANT NOTICE:
As part of the reauthorization of the Higher Education Act in 2010, several new federal regulations (Program Integrity Rules) were established regarding the definition of "credit hours." The University must comply with these regulations. Therefore, effective fall quarter, 2012, all Sociology classes that had previously been listed as five (5) credit hours will become four (4) credit hour courses. This change affects our major and minor requirements. The current requirement for both Sociology and Criminology minors is "a minimum of 20 quarter hours of coursework" (which includes SOCI 2250, Criminology, for the Crim minor). The new requirement for both minors is "a minimum of 20 quarter hours of coursework, including required courses." Students are expected to meet with a Sociology/Criminology Department faculty advisor to verify their minor requirements.
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