Degrees and Programs in Criminology

  • Bachelor of Science Degree in Criminology with options of Law Enforcement, Corrections, Victimology, and Forensic Behavioral Science
  • Off-Campus Degree Programs (Bachelors of Science and Masters of Science)
  • Undergraduate Distance Learning Degree Program
  • Honors Program
  • Mock Trial Program
  • Internship Program
  • Directed Policing Program
  • Foreign Study Program
  • Joint Center on Violence and Victim Studies

Certifications

  • Certificate in Victim Services
  • Certificate in Alcohol/Drug Studies
  • Certificate in Legal Studies
  • Certificate in Peacebuilding and Mediation
  • Criminal Justice Counseling Specialist Certificate of Advanced Study

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CRIMINOLOGY

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The Department of Criminology provides undergraduate and graduate education in criminology for students planning professional careers in the criminal justice field. The program is diversified and integrated, reflecting the wide range of job opportunities in the field, including direct service and administration in law enforcement, corrections, forensic behavioral sciences, and victimology/victim services.

What You Can Earn

  • Police Patrol Officer:  $51,651 (our region)
  • Fraud Investigation Officer:  $56,777 (our region)
  • Correctional Officer: $40,838 (our region)

Source: HR Reported data on salary.com as of December 2012

What You Can Do

Pursue Careers In:

  • •Welfare fraud
  • Industrial security
  • Victim services
  • State Police
  • Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation
  • Alcohol Beverage Control
  • California Youth Authority
  • Office of Criminal Justice Planning
  • Department of Motor Vehicles
  • Fish and Game Department
  • Border Patrol
  • FBI
  • Secret Service
  • Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms
  • Park Service
  • Customs and Immigration
  • Federal prisons
  • Children and Family Services
  • Coroner's Office
  • Juvenile Detention Facilities
  • District Attorney Investigations
  • Public Defender Investigations
  • Probation
  • Parole
  • Highway Patrol
  • Criminalistics
  • Social Services
  • Drug Enforcement Administration
  • Marshals Service
  • Internal Revenue Service
  • Local Police

Interesting Classes You Might Take

  • Crime and Violence in America
  • Forensic Science
  • Community-Based and Institutional Corrections
  • Victim Services
  • Administration of Justice
  • Criminal Law
  • Professionalism in Criminal Justice
  • Juvenile Delinquency
  • Criminal Justice Counseling
  • Family Violence
  • Alcohol, Drugs and Criminality
  • Psychology of Crime
  • Trauma and Crisis Intervention
  • Internships in Law Enforcement, Corrections, and Victimology
  • Homeland Security

What You Can Learn

  • The composition, manufacture, use, and misuse of drugs and their relationship to criminality
  • The psychological bases of criminal behavior
  • Typology and history of family abuse
  • Crimes' causal factors, agencies of justice, treatment processes, and programs for control and prevention of juvenile delinquency

About the College

The College of Social Sciences studies the human experience, including the depth of the past and the breadth of the entire planet.

We place emphasis on learning practical skills to aid you in your career. Our students do internships, participate in archaeological digs, or do service-learning projects with a non-profit agency. Students can assist on research projects or organize a social change project.

Whatever a student's major, they enjoy our witty and talented faculty and our caring staff as they discover our social world.

College Contact Information

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Phone: (559) 278-3013
FAX: (559) 278-7664

Address:
5340 N. Campus Drive MS/SS91
Fresno CA 93740-8019

Department Contact Info

Department website

Science II, Area C - Room 159
2576 E San Ramon, MS/ST104
Fresno CA 93740-8029

Phone: 559.278.2305
Fax: 559.278.7265

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