Bachelor of Arts, Criminology, Honours Program:

Honours Program
This is a selective program. Applicants for admission must:

• have completed at least 60 credit hours;
• have a cumulative GPA of at least 3.00;
• have a cumulative GPA in Criminology courses of 3.30;
• have a faculty member’s written agreement to serve as a supervisor for the honours thesis, CRIM 4500.

In exceptional circumstances, the Department may consider applicants who do not have a 3.30 CGPA in Criminology courses (but who have a 3.00 overall).

The deadline for application is 1 April of the year before students wish to begin the honours program and register in the Honours Seminar course, CRIM 4500.

For honours in Criminology, students must complete seventy-two (72) credit hours as follows:

a. Criminology Core

• CRIM 2300 Classical Criminological Theory
• CRIM 2301 Contemporary Criminological Theory
• CRIM 2302 Criminal Statistics
• CRIM 2303 Crime and Society
• CRIM 2304 Canadian Criminal Justice System
• CRIM 2364/SOCI 2364 Research Methods

b. Twelve (12) credit hours in CRIM at the 3000 level

c. Twenty-four (24) credit hours in CRIM at the 4000 level or PSYC 3320; PSYC 3335; PHIL 2332 and PHIL 2333,with a maximum of six (6) credit hours of Directed Reading courses.

d. CRIM 4500/SOCI 4530 Honours Seminar CRIM 4501 Advanced Criminological Theory CRIM 4502 Advanced Research Methodology in Criminology or SOCI 4493 Advanced Research Methods;

e. six (6) credit hours at the 3000 or 4000 level not listed as above in one of the following social sciences: Anthropology, Economics, Geography, Political Science, Psychology and Sociology.

To graduate, students must maintain a cumulative GPA of 3.30 in Criminology courses.