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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

  1. Students must complete a minimum of 15 credit hours from the approved courses below.

  2. Students must complete a minimum of six upper-division (3000-level and above) credit hours chosen from the approved courses below.
  3. 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.

  4. 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

  1. The certificate will be awarded at the end of the semester in which the student completes all required courses for the certificate.

Complete the following required courses: 111
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 Hours17
1

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.

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