Doctor of Philosophy
in Criminology
http://www.utdallas.edu/epps/crim/
Faculty
Professors: John
L. Worrall (Program Head),
Bruce Jacobs, James Marquart
Associate Professors: Denise Boots, Thomislav Kovandzic, Lynne Vieraitis
(Graduate Director)
Assistant Professors: J.C.
Barnes, Robert Morris
Clinical Professor: Elmer Polk
Clinical Assistant Professors: Timothy Bray, Sarah Maxwell
Mission
The Mission of the Doctor of Philosophy in
Criminology at the University of Texas at Dallas is threefold in nature, in
order to:
1.
Deliver high-quality education to a diverse body of graduate students regarding
the etiology, control, and variation of law-breaking across space and time.
2.
Serve local, regional, and national communities through professional
development programs, public policy analyses, evaluation research, program and
policy design, and a forum for new approaches to the study of crime.
3.
Advance the understanding of criminology through a multidisciplinary mix of
theoretical and applied research.
Objectives
The
doctoral program in Criminology is an interdisciplinary, research-oriented
degree offered in conjunction with other graduate programs in the School of
Economic, Political, and Policy Sciences at UT Dallas. The objective of
the Ph.D. program is to provide students a coherent, yet intellectually
challenging degree that adequately prepares them to conduct research among the
many aspects of criminology and criminal justice, varying with individual
interests and areas of specialty. Graduates of the Ph.D. program will be
qualified to teach at the University level as professors. Graduates will
also be competent to enter into analytic and administrative posts within the
vast array of research and policy institutions, criminal justice organizations,
and in the private sector.
Facilities
Students have access to the computing
facilities in the School of Economic, Political and Policy Sciences (EPPS) in
two computing laboratories which equipped with major social science software
packages, including E-Views, R, Rats, PASW, STATA, Lexis/Nexis
database, and Westlaw for student use. The University’s Computing Center
provides personal computers and UNIX Workstations. Data and reference materials
are also available online via the library and UTD’s memberships in numerous
organizations.
Graduate Assistantships
Criminology Program Funding is limited
primarily to doctoral students, with limited opportunities others. Students
should note their desire to be considered for graduate student funding as a
teaching or research assistant in their letter of intent to the program at the
time of. For more specific information, please see our Criminology Graduate
Program Handbook located on our website at http://epps.utdallas.edu/crim/ .
Application and Admission
Requirements
The PhD Program in Criminology seeks
applicants from a baccalaureate or Masters in Criminology, Sociology, or a
relevant discipline. A 3.2 GPA and a GRE score of 1,000 are desirable,
but students may be admitted at the program’s discretion. All transcripts
must be submitted, along with three letters of recommendation (preferably
academic) and a one-page essay describing their background, education, and
professional objectives. For more information please see our Graduate
Handbook on our website.
Degree Requirements
On admission to the Ph.D. in Criminology
Program, a student must complete a 90 semester credit hours across three tiers
of graduate coursework. Additionally, students must fulfill other requirements
including comprehensive exams, and two writing requirements as follows:
• Coursework: 75 credit
hours of graduate study (minus transferred or masters hours)
• Analytical Paper Writing
Requirement
• Comprehensive Examination
•
Doctoral Dissertation
A grade of "C+" or worse in any
graduate class requires that the class be retaken with only one retake allowed per
course. If the retake results in a final grade of "C+" or worse, the
student will be dropped from the program. In addition, all students must meet
the University’s minimum required GPA of 3.0 or higher. See our Criminology
Graduate Program Handbook located on our website for more specific
requirements.
Semester Credit Hour Requirements
Coursework
Tiers and Credit Hours
Tier
I
Required
Criminology Core Classes: 15 hours
Electives:
15 hours (9 hours in Criminology/6 graduate hours taken in any other subject)
Writing
Requirement for Analytical Paper: 6 hours
Total
Tier I Hours: 36
Tier
II
Required
Criminology Core Classes: 12 hours
Required
Additional EPPS Methods/Stats Classes: 6 hours
Criminology
Electives: 6 hours
Open
Electives (in Criminology or any other program/college): 6 hours
Total
Tier II Hours: 30
Tier
III
Dissertation/Three-Paper Option Research
(minimum of 9 hours)
Total
Tier III Hours: 9
Total Program Hours: 75 total credit hours
minimum beyond BA/BS
27
Hours Core Criminology Courses
6
Hours Analytical Writing
6
Hours Additional EPPS Methods/Stats Classes
15
Hours Criminology Electives
12
Hours Open Electives (any program/college)
9
Hours Dissertation
75
Hours TOTAL
Core Courses
EPPS 6310 Research Design I
CRIM 6300 Proseminar in Criminology
CRIM 6303 Etiology of Crime and Criminality
CRIM 6307 Extent of Crime and Measurement in Criminology
CRIM 6311 Crime and Justice Policy
EPPS 6313 (Intro to Quantitative Methods) or 7316 (Regression and Multivariate
Analysis)
CRIM 7300 Advances in Criminology Theory
CRIM 7301 Seminar in Criminology Research
CRIM 6V98 (Analytical Writing) or CRIM 6V96 (Thesis Writing Research) (6 hours)
CRIM 8V99 Dissertation (18 hours)
Criminology Electives
CRIM
6305 Law and Social Control
CRIM 6308 Victimology
CRIM 6309 Communities and Crime
CRIM 6310 Delinquency and Juvenile Justice
CRIM 6313 Corrections
CRIM 6314 Policing
CRIM 6315 Violent Crime
CRIM 6317 Courts
CRIM 6322 Crime Prevention
CRIM 6323 Violence and Gun Control
CRIM 6324 Correlates of Crime and Justice
CRIM 6332 GIS Applications in Criminology
CRIM 6348 Drugs & Crime
CRIM 7342 Qualitative Criminology
CRIM 7351 Advanced Criminological Theory
CRIM 7381 Special Topics in Criminology
CRIM 8V01 Independent Study in Criminology
EPPS 6342 Research Design II
EPPS 6346 Qualitative Research Methods
EPPS 6352 Evaluation Research Methods
EPPS 7318 Structural Equation and Multilevel (Hierarchical) Modeling
EPPS 7344 Categorical and Limited Dependent Variables
EPPS 7368 Spatial Epidemiology
EPPS 7370 Time Series Analysis
EPPS 7370 Applied Multivariate Analysis
EPPS 7386 Survey Research