You are in the official 2001-2002 General Catalog
for California State University, Fresno.
Harvey Wallace, Chair
John H. Burge
R. Thomas Dull
Max D. Futrell
Eric W. Hickey
Jerome E. Jackson
Ruth E. Masters
Barbara Owen
Robert F. Perez
Lester P. Pincu
H. Otto Schweizer
Candice Skrapec
Marsha Tarver
Steven Walker
Eidell Wasserman
Arthur V.N. Wint
The criminology department consists of 15 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.
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. The department will not accept a student with a G.P.A. less than 2.0 as an undergraduate major.
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.
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.
The department offers the corrections and law enforcement options
of its B.S. degree via satellite to distance learning sites throughout
California. The program is structured so that all required upper-division
major, general education, and writing skills courses can be completed
over a three-year cycle. Additionally, the department offers its
undergraduate degree via compressed video at the university satellite
campus located at College of the Sequoias in Visalia, California.
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
The criminology department consists of 15 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.
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.
Criminology
Courses