Requirements for a Sociology Minor
Minimum of 20 quarter hours of sociology. Sociology minors may enroll in the Internship Program provided they have junior or senior standing, have a cumulative GPA of 3.0, and have taken at least three sociology courses beyond Understanding Social Life (SOCI 1810). If you choose to do an Internship and count it toward your Sociology minor, you will need to complete 15 of the 20 elective hours listed above, PLUS 5 hours for the Internship. Pre-law and pre-social work students will find a minor in sociology especially helpful to their long-term career goals.
A 19-hour minor may be approved at the discretion of the department chair.
Requirements for a Criminology Minor
Minimum of 20 quarter hours of criminology-related courses. Criminology minors must take Criminology (SOCI 2250) and a minimum of three (3) elective courses from the following list:
- Juvenile Delinquency (SOCI 2255)
- Deviance and Society (SOCI 2260)
- Seminar in Current Issues in Sociology (SOCI 2700; must be criminology-related)
- 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 (by approval)
Criminology minors may enroll in the Internship Program provided they have junior or senior standing, have a cumulative GPA of 3.0, and have taken at least three sociology and/or criminology-related courses beyond Understanding Social Life (SOCI 1810). If you choose to do an Internship and count it toward your Criminology minor, you will need to complete the criminology course, 10 of the 20 elective hours listed above, PLUS 5 hours for the Internship.
A 19-hour minor may be approved at the discretion of the department chair.
Students interested in law or law-enforcement will find a minor in criminology especially helpful to their long-term career goals.
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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 (and therefore the Sociology/Criminology Department) must comply with these regulations. Therefore, effective fall quarter, 2012, all undergraduate classes currently listed as five (5) credit hours will revert to four (4) credit hours. This will affect our major and minor requirements. The current requirement for both Sociology and Criminology minors is "a minimum of 20 credit hours of coursework" (which includes SOCI 2250, Criminology, for the Crim minor). The new requirement for both minors is "a minimum of 20 credit hours of coursework, including required courses." [Note that we haven't listed the required courses here; revised checklists are linked below this paragraph.]
New Sociology Minor Requirements Worksheet (as of fall 2012)
New Criminology Minor Requirements Worksheet (as of fall 2012)
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