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Criminology
Criminology
School of Social Sciences
Department of Criminology
MAX D. FUTRELL, Chair
McKee Fisk Building, Room 244
(559) 278-2305
Department of Criminology
MAX D. FUTRELL, Chair
McKee Fisk Building, Room 244
(559) 278-2305
Options:
Corrections
Law Enforcement
Victimology
M.S. in Criminology
Minor in Criminology
Victim Services Certificate
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, victimology/victim services, and juvenile justice. The department offers the Bachelor of Science degree, Master of Science degree, and a minor.
Undergraduate Program
Criminology courses at the undergraduate level include integration of theoretical and applied materials of an interdisciplinary nature. The undergraduate curriculum is designed to prepare students for beginning professional work in criminal justice and to provide preparation for graduate work.The corrections program is designed for students interested in careers in probation, parole, correctional institutions, and other affiliated forms of work. The law enforcement program is designed for students interested in careers with federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies, or law enforcement careers within the private sector. The purpose of the victimology option is to provide students and the victim services field with a balanced theoretical and applied understanding of the principles of victimology. An internship course is required in corrections, law enforcement, and victimology options.
Graduate Program
The Master of Science degree in Criminology is a 30-unit, flexible program
which provides a solid core in the field of criminology while permitting
students to pursue specialized areas of interest. The master's program is
designed to prepare students for service and responsible administrative
and professional positions in agencies in the criminal justice system. The
master's program also prepares students for a wide variety of occupations
including in-service education; administrative education and management;
community college teaching; predoctoral studies; and research.
Justice Center
The department also administers a Justice Center that provides education,
training, assistance, and consultation to criminal justice agencies throughout
the Valley. The Justice Center offers intensive seminars in areas of interest
to working professionals. Some of these areas may include: victim services,
drug abuse, alternative sentencing, juvenile justice, exclusionary rule,
crime prevention, and industrial security.
Faculty and Facilities
The criminology department consists of 11 full-time faculty members whose
expertise includes numerous specialties in the criminal justice system,
including corrections, counseling, victimology, juvenile delinquency, theory,
legal studies, supervision and management, and criminal justice administration.
Various part-time faculty members from major criminal justice agencies also
instruct in the department.
Career Opportunities
Many diversified local, state, federal, and private agencies employ our
graduates in criminal justice. On the local level, career opportunities
exist at municipal police departments, county sheriffs' offices, probation
departments, halfway and prerelease houses, group homes, crisis centers,
juvenile halls, welfare fraud units, retail, industrial security agencies,
and victim services organizations. At the state level, career opportunities
include the State Police, Department of Corrections, Alcohol and Beverage
Control, California Youth Authority, Department of Motor Vehicles, Departments
of Justice, Fish and Game, and Forestry. Federal opportunities include the
Border Patrol, FBI, Secret Service, Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, Internal
Revenue Service, Park Service, Customs, Immigration, and federal prisons.
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