Criminology Department

News

March 2009

Effective Fall, 2009, CRM 215J ("Criminology") will be replaced with CRM 100J ("Introduction to Criminology"), with no change of course content from CRM 215J. Prerequisites for CRM 215J (SOC 100J and Core Curriculum areas C, D, and E) will no longer apply. CRM 100J will have no prerequisites of any kind. Students may enroll in it in their very first semester. However, this course will still be the prerequisite for upper-level Criminology courses, with a required minimum grade of "C" or better.

Elimination of SOC 100J as a Criminology major and minor requirement reduces the number of credits in the major from 39 to 36. The number of credits in the Criminology minor is reduced from 21 to 18.

Though it will no longer be required, The Department of Criminology strongly recommends that, if possible, students majoring or minoring in Criminology take SOC 100J as a foundation course.

Also effective Fall, 2009, upper-level courses in Sociology, Women's Studies, and Philosophy will be eliminated from the list of courses accepted as Criminology major electives. The list of electives will comprise only Criminology courses. If students have already taken courses from the current list of admissible electives, they will still "count" as electives for the major.