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for California State University, Fresno.
B.S. in Criminology
Options:
Corrections
Law Enforcement
Victimology
M.S. in Criminology
Victim Services
Certificate
Criminal Justice Counseling Specialist
Certificate of Advanced
Study
Certificate in Alcohol/Drug Studies
Certificate in Peacebuilding and
Mediation
Steven D. Walker, Chair
Keith Clement
R. Thomas Dull
John P.J. Dussich
Peter English
Eric W. Hickey
Jerome E. Jackson
Jason Kissner
Ruth E. Masters
Bernadette T. Muscat
Barbara Owen
Robert F. Perez
Kenneth James Ryan
H. Otto Schweizer
Candice Skrapec
Harvey Wallace
Arthur V. N. Wint
The criminology department consists of 16 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 GPA 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 victimology option is
designed for students interested in careers in domestic violence programs,
rape counseling programs, victim/witness programs, or other victim-related
programs at the local, state, or federal level; these programs can either
be criminal justice based or community based. 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 its B.S. via compressed video at the university
satellite campuses located at College of the Sequoias in Visalia, California
and West Hills College in Lemoore, California. This degree is also offered
at law enforcement facilities in the city of Fresno.
The department also administers two centers that provide education, training,
assistance, and consultation to criminal justice agencies throughout the
Valley and the country. The centers offer 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 16 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 prelease 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, Office of Criminal Justice Planning, 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,
federal prisons, and Office for Victims of Crime.
Criminology
Courses