Penn Criminology - Resources for Students

General Penn Resources

General Criminology Resources

Penn Portal: http://medley.isc-seo.upenn.edu/penn_portal/view.php

National Institute of Justice

Campus Maps: http://www.facilities.upenn.edu/

U.S. Sentencing Commission

Blackboard: https://courseweb.library.upenn.edu/

Federal Bureau of Prisons

Administrative Office of the Courts

Course Requirements

Course schedules: http://www.upenn.edu/registrar/timetable/index.html

Criminology course descriptions: http://www.crim.upenn.edu/programs/courses.html

Masters Degree

First semester:
o CRIM 600 - Proseminar in Criminology
o CRIM 601 - Proseminar in Crime Prevention and Justice
o CRIM 604 - Criminology in Practice
o CRIM 535 - Quantitative Methods I
o CRIM 602 - Evidence-Based Sentencing
                        or
o CRIM 615 - Fatal Violence

Second semester:
o CRIM 634 - Evidence-Based Crime Prevention
o CRIM 603 - Research Methods/Crime Analysis Project
o CRIM 604 - Criminology in Practice
o LAW 503 - Criminal Law or LAW 696 - Constitutional Criminal Procedure
                        or
o CRIM 670 - Biosocial Criminology
                        or
o SWRK 775 - Intimate Violence

Additional requirements:
M.S. students are required to attend the Criminology Colloquim Series.
There is no language requirement for the M.S. degree

Ph.D. Degree

Ph.D. students are required to take seven "core" courses, six in the first two years. The course requirements are defined by subject matter. A given requirement may sometimes be fulfilled by any one of several offered courses. Students are encouraged to finish the core courses rapidly so that they can proceed quickly to their more specialized training and research.

First or Second Year:
    1. Criminology Theory --- a survey course covering relevant theory up to the present (two semesters)
     2. Criminology and Public Policy --- applications of criminology to policy matters (two semesters)
    3. Applied Statistics --- a mix of statistical theory and applications in which data analysis skills are acquired (two semesters)

Second or Third Year:
    1. Dissertation Seminar --- students are asked to consider and present initial work on their dissertations (one semester).