Doctor of Philosophy
in Criminology
http://epps.utdallas.edu/crim/
Faculty
Professors: Bruce
Jacobs, James
Marquart, Alex Piquero, Nicole Leeper Piquero, John L. Worrall
Associate Professors: Denise
Boots, Tomislav Kovandzic, Lynne Vieraitis
Assistant
Professors: J.C. Barnes, Nadine Connell, 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 application. 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 1300 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 75
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 "B-" 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 "B-" 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 EPPS 7313
EPPS 6316 or EPPS 7316 (Regression
and Multivariate Analysis)
CRIM 7300 Advances in Criminology Theory
CRIM 7301 Seminar in Criminology Research
CRIM 6V98 (Analytical Writing) (6 hours)
or CRIM 6V96
(Thesis Writing Research) (6 hours)
CRIM 8V99 Dissertation (18 hours)
Criminology
Electives
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 6323
Violence and Gun Control
CRIM 6324 Correlates of Crime and Justice
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
Sample of Additional Methods/Stats Classes
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