Sociology Department - SUNY College at Old Westbury

Requirements for the Criminology Major

In addition to satisfying all College requirements for graduation, students wishing to receive a Bachelor's degree in Criminology must complete 10 courses. Up to three of these (either Intro Criminology or Intro Sociology and two electives) may be satisfied with transfer credit if the courses have been passed with a grade of C or better. The course requirements fall into three categories:

(coming soon)
Typical Sequences

for Freshmen

for Transfers

Introductory courses (one may be transferred-in with a C or better)	CR 2500 Introduction to Criminology SY 2500 Introductory Sociology	required of all majors

Foundation Courses (must be taken at Old Westbury*)	SY 4500 Cross Cultural Analysis SY 4520 Methods of Sociological Research SY 4530 Classical Sociological Theory CR 4550 Theories of Crime CR 5980 Senior Seminar in Criminology	required of all majors (please note that SY 4530 is a prerequisite for CR 4550)

Elective Courses (up to two electives may be transferred-in with a C or better)	CR 3090 Juvenile Delinquency CR 4091 Punishment and Corrections CR 4092 Victimology CR 4093 Criminal Justice Administration CR 4094 Drugs and Society CR 4999 Issues in Criminology SY 2570 Statistics for Social Science SY 3600 Social Deviance SY 4810 Law and Justice	Issues in Criminology may not be taken more than twice.

"I have noticed that, when we work on a case together, you are always urging me on to physical action, Hastings. You with me to measure footprints, to analyze cigarette ash, to prostrate myself on my stomach for the examination of detail. You never realize that by lying back in an armchair, with the eyes closed, one can come nearer to the solution of any problem. One sees then with the eyes of the mind."
− Hercule Poirot in 13 at Dinner, by Agatha Christie (NY: Dell Publishing, 1969), p. 11.

*under special circumstances, individual students may petition the Faculty to consider accepting a foundation course completed at another institution.