Upon completion of the Criminology major, a student will be expected to:

• Recognize the causes and consequences of crime at the micro and macro levels, and match these with prominent criminological perspectives;
• Describe the interrelated institutions and processes of the criminal justice system;
• Apply theories of crime and criminal justice to explain actual and hypothetical scenarios, behaviors, and trends;
• Explain the various social science methods of inquiry and use these to test specific criminological research questions;
• Recognize and explain macro-social inequities in crime and criminal justice processes by race, social class, gender, region and age; and
• Locate and consult works in the area to produce a research paper that is coherent, cogent, and attentive to conventions of the field.