Oct 15, 2024  
2024-2025 University Bulletin 
    
2024-2025 University Bulletin

Criminology - B.A.


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The major in criminology offers a career-enhancing liberal arts curriculum based upon the sociological study of law and concepts of justice and social control. This provides an understanding of the structural roots of social inequality, norms and rules, harmful behaviors, deviance, systems of coercive control, criminalization, criminal legal systems, victimization, and strategies for building justice. Students majoring in criminology undergo a comprehensive program of study and are prepared for professional employment in a number of occupations related to community work, social service, and law; for graduate study in criminology, the sociology of law, or justice studies; or for law school. Students are also encouraged to acquire practical experience through internships and civic engagement opportunities. For additional information regarding the criminology major, students should consult an advisor in the Department of Sociology and Criminology.

Major Requirements:

Forty semester hours chosen according to advising guidance.

A minimum of six courses, or eighteen credit hours in the major field must be completed at Dominican.

Required Courses:


Nine additional semester hours chosen from:


Additional Information


Course substitutions are permitted when deemed necessary in consultation with an advisor and subject to the approval of the department chair. STA (study abroad) courses are permitted as course substitutions in consultation with an advisor and subject to the approval of the department chair.

Students are also encouraged to acquire practical experience through internships, community-based learning opportunities, and study abroad or domestic study courses. For additional information regarding the sociology program and its concentrations, students should consult an advisor in the Department of Sociology and Criminology.

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