Criminology Minor

The Department of Sociology offers formal minors to undergraduate students majoring in other fields of study.

  • In order to graduate with a minor in sociology, students are required to complete SOCL 2001 and at least 12 additional hours in sociology, six semester hours of which must be in courses at the 3000 level or above.
  • In order to graduate with a minor in sociology, students are required to complete SOCL 2001, SOCL2301, SOCL3371, SOCL 4461 and 6 hours of electives from the course list below:

Possible Elective Courses (6 hours)

SOCL 2371 Aspects of Federal, State and Local Law Enforcement (3) 

SOCL 3501 Sociology of Deviance (3) 

SOCL 3510 Criminal Violence (3) 

SOCL 4462 Sociology of Youth & Crime (3) 

SOCL 4463 Gender and Crime (3)  

SOCL 4464 Rural Crime (3) 

SOCL 4465 Drugs and Society (3) 

SOCL 4466 Crime Mapping (3) 

SOCL 4468 Sociology of Gangs (3) 

SOCL 4469 Policing and Race in the US (3) 

SOCL 4471 Sociology of Law (3) 

POLI 4020 American Constitutional Law (3) 

POLI 4021 The American Constitution and Civil Liberties (3) 

POLI 4023 Judicial Politics (3) 

SW 3007 Juvenile Justice (3)