Penn Criminology - Resources for Graduate 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

Download the Graduate Student Handbook

Course Requirements

{ M.S. / M.A. / Ph.D. }

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

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

Master of Science 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 SOCI 535 - Quantitative Methods I
o CRIM 634 - Evidence-Based Crime Prevention

Second semester:
o CRIM 602 - Evidence-Based Sentencing
o CRIM 603 - Research Methods/Crime Analysis Project
o CRIM 604 - Criminology in Practice
o LAW 503 - Criminal Law or LAW 696/748 - Constitutional Criminal Procedure

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

Master of Arts Degree

Required courses:

o CRIM-600: Proseminar in Criminology (usually Fall Semester)
o CRIM-601: Proseminar in Criminal Justice (semester alternates)
o CRIM-634: Evidence-Based Crime Prevention (semester alternates)
o CRIM-800: Thesis Research Project (must complete by end of Spring semester to graduate)
o SOCI-535: Quantitative Methods I (Formerly CRIM-535) or an equivilant course (e.g. STAT-431: Statistical Inference) (usually Fall Semester)
o SOCI-536: Quantitative Methods II or an equivilant course (e.e. STAT-500, BSTA-500, or PSYC-611) (usually Spring Semester)

Electives: Students must select two electives in consultation with their research advisor and/or the graduate group. Examples of courses include, but are not limited to:

o CRIM-602: Evidence-Based Sentencing (Fall Semester)
o CRIM-615: Fatal Violence (Fall/Spring Semester)
o CRIM-671: Violence: A Clinical Neuroscience Approach (Fall/Spring Semester)
o SWRK-799: Violence in Relationships throughout the Lifespan (Spring Semester)
o PSYC-601: Systems Neuroscience Proseinar
o SOCI-601: Contemporary Social Theory
o SOCI/DEMG-609: Basic Methods in Demography
o SWRK-811: Social Theory
o LAW-503- Criminal Law
o LAW-696: Constitutional Criminal Procedure
o LAW-748: Criminal Procedure: Prosecution and Adjudication

~M.A. students are also encouraged to sit in on CRIM-604: Criminology in Practice, but they do not register for this course and it is not a formal requirement.

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).