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.
• Locate and consult works in the area to produce a research paper that is coherent, cogent, and attentive to conventions of the field.