Criminology Undergraduate Certificate
General Requirements
Students must satisfy all requirements as outlined below and by the department offering the certificate.
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Certificate Requirements
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Students must complete a minimum of 15 credit hours from the approved courses below.
- Students must complete a minimum of six upper-division (3000-level and above) credit hours chosen from the approved courses below.
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Students must earn a minimum grade of C- (1.7) in all courses that apply to the certificate and must achieve a minimum cumulative certificate GPA of 2.0. Courses taken using P+/P/F or S/U grading cannot apply to certificate requirements.
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Students must complete all credits applied to the certificate at CU Denver. If students have completed a course required for the certificate elsewhere, they may add the needed credits in the form of additional elective credits drawn from the approved elective courses.
Certificate Restrictions, Allowances and Recommendations
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The certificate will be awarded at the end of the semester in which the student completes all required courses for the certificate.
Code | Title | Hours |
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Complete the following required courses: 1 | 11 | |
Quantitative Methods & Analysis and Qualitative Methods | ||
Criminology | ||
Complete two of the following elective courses: | 6 | |
Psychedelic Anthropology | ||
Communication, Prisons, and Social Justice | ||
Mass Media Law And Policy | ||
White-Collar Crime | ||
Community Corrections | ||
Violence in Society | ||
Drugs, Alcohol, and Crime | ||
Crime and Delinquency Prevention | ||
Race, Class, and Justice | ||
Poverty, Crime, and Justice | ||
Interpersonal Violence | ||
Victimology | ||
Gender and Crime | ||
Gangs and Criminal Organizations | ||
Environmental Crime and Justice | ||
Economics of Crime and Punishment | ||
Economics of Sex and Drugs | ||
Culture, Racism and Alienation | ||
Family Policy & Law | ||
Famous U.S. Trials | ||
Crime, Policing, and Justice in American History | ||
War and Morality | ||
Why Obey the Law? Introduction to Philosophy of Law | ||
Punishment and Social Justice | ||
Race, Gender, Law and Public Policy | ||
Corruption in the U.S. and Abroad | ||
Law, Politics and Justice | ||
Political Violence | ||
Drugs, Brain and Behavior | ||
Domestic Abuse | ||
Deviance and Social Control | ||
Drugs, Alcohol & Society | ||
Juvenile Delinquency | ||
Hate Groups and Group Violence | ||
Crime, Justice, and the City | ||
Sociology of Law | ||
Violence in Relationships | ||
Total Hours | 17 |
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Students may substitute two approved methods courses in their major discipline, one on quantitative methods and one on qualitative methods. Questions about eligible methods course substitutions should be directed to the criminology certificate advisor. Alternative courses may reduce the required course credit hours from 11 to 9.
- SOCY 3115 Quantitative Methods & Analysis substitutions may include ECON 3801 Introduction to Mathematical Economics, ECON 3811 Statistics with Computer Applications, GEOG 2080 Introduction to Mapping and Map Analysis, GEOG 4080 Introduction to GIS, MATH 2830 Introductory Statistics, PHIL 2441 Logic, Language and Scientific Reasoning, PHIL 3440 Introduction to Symbolic Logic, PSCI 3011 Research Methods, PSYC 2090 Statistics and Research Methods, PSYC 3090 Research Methods in Psychology.
- SOCY 3119 Qualitative Methods substitutions may include COMM 4221 Research Methods: Qualitative, PBHL 4031 Ethnographic Research In Public Health.
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