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Resources for Undergraduate Students

General Penn Resources
General Criminology Resources
  Penn Portal: http://medley.isc-seo.upenn.edu/penn_portal/view.php
  Campus Maps: http://www.facilities.upenn.edu/
  Blackboard: https://courseweb.library.upenn.edu/
  Center for Undergraduate Research (CURF): http://www.upenn.edu/curf/

Choosing Your Faculty Advisor  
Course Requirements
14 Credit Units: 8 Criminology Courses, 6 Cross-departmental Courses
  Course schedules: http://www.upenn.edu/registrar/timetable/index.html
  Course register (course descriptions): http://www.upenn.edu/registrar/register/index.html
  Criminology Course descriptions: http://www.penn.crim.edu/programs/courses.html

Criminology Courses (All required, or substitutes indicated)
Fall 2008 Criminology Course Timetable
2008-2009 Criminology Course Register (Course descriptions)

CRIM 100 - Criminology
CRIM 200 - Criminal Justice
CRIM 350 - Quantitative Analysis
CRIM 360 - Crime and Human Development (or PSYC 180 - Developmental Psychology)
CRIM 370 - Bio-Social Criminology
CRIM 380 - Ecological Criminology (or SOCI 140 - Sociology of Conflict)
CRIM 410, CRIM 411 or CRIM 412 - Research Seminar in Criminology
CRIM 450 - Senior Research Thesis

Socio-Political Context of Crime

SOCI 03 - Deviance and Social Control (Required)

    and any two of the following:

CLST 130 - Ancient and Modern Prison Narratives
ENGL 16 - Discipline and Punish: Crime and Criminality in Early America
HIST 168 - History of American Law to 1877
HIST 169 - History of American Law since 1877
HIST 352 - Legal History: English Fundamentals
PHIL 077 - Philosophy of Law
PHIL 277 - Justice, Law and Morality
PHIL 278 - Comparative Law
PSCI 130 - Introduction to American Politics
PSCI 171 - American Constitutional Law
SOCI 125 - Classical Sociological Theory
SOCI 135 - Law and Society
SOCI 140 - Sociology of Conflict

Bio-Psychological Analysis

Any three of the following:

BIBB 109 - Intro to Brain and Behavior
PSYC 001 - Intro to Psychology
PSYC 162 - Abnormal Psychology
PSYC 160 - Personality
PSYC 125 - Drugs, Brain and Mind
PSYC 149 - Cognitive Neuroscience
PSYC 170 - Social Psychology
PSYC 180 - Developmental Psychology

Criminology Electives

Crim 415/Crim 615 - Fatal Violence in the United States

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