The Crime and Deviance specialization allows students in Sociology the opportunity to develop a concentration of courses in the areas of criminology, deviance, and social control that will be noted on their degree transcript.
Open to any student doing either a Four-Year General or an Honours Sociology degree.
Note: Students who elect to obtain a Legal Studies and Criminology Option are not eligible for this Specialization.
Requirements
- Successful completion of four academic course units (eight courses), including:
- at least six courses from:
SOC 201 Victims and Society
SOC 222 Juvenile Delinquency
SOC 223 Deviance
SOC 226 Juvenile Justice
SOC 227 Criminology
SOC 228 Sociology of Corrections
SOC 229 Selected Topics in Criminology
SOC 325 Sexuality and the Law
SOC 327 Policing
SOC 370 Sociology of Law
SOC 428 Sentencing as a Social Process - and the remaining courses from:
SOC 204 Sociology of Adolescence
SOC 249 Sociology of Mental Disorder
SOC 258 Millennialism & Violence
SOC 262 Cults and New Religious Movements
SOC 368 Custodial and Rehabilitative Institutions
SOC 372 Good and Evil in Social Relations
SOC 421 Quantitative Methods
SOC 498 Directed Studies (in an area of crime or deviance)