Doctor
of Philosophy in Criminology
http://www.utdallas.edu/epps/criminology/degrees.html
Faculty
Professors: James W. Marquart (Director), Bruce Jacobs,
John Worrall
Associate Professors: Thomislav Kovandzic, Lynne Vieraitis
Assistant
Professors: Denise Paquette-Boots (Graduate Director), Robert Morris
Clinical
Professor: Elmer Polk
Clinical Assistant Professors: Timothy Bray, Sarah Maxwell
The
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 Doctor of Philosophy degree in
Criminology is an interdisciplinary, research-oriented program that provides
students with a coherent and intellectually challenging degree that prepares
them for an academic, analytical or administrative appointment as a university
professor competent in the oversight of research and development within
criminal justice organizations, policy institutions or in the private sector.
Facilities
Students
have access to the computing facilities in the
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 1200 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: 90 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 will 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: 9 hours
Non-Criminology
Electives (in EPPS or any another school): 9 hours
Total
Tier II Hours: 36
Tier III
Dissertation/Three-Paper Option
Research (minimum of 18 hours)
Total
Tier III Hours: 18
Total
Program Hours: 90 total credit hours minimum beyond BA/BS
27 Hours Core Criminology Courses
6 Hours Analytical
Writing
6 Hours Additional EPPS Methods/Stats Classes
18 Hours Criminology
Electives
15 Hours Electives
outside CRIM (EPPS or any other School)
18 Hours Dissertation
90 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 7313 Descriptive and Inferential Statistics
EPPS 7316 Regression and Multivariate Analysis
CRIM 7300 Advances in Criminology Theory
CRIM 7301 Seminar in Criminology Research
CRIM 6V98 Analytical Writing (6 hours)
CRIM 8V99 Dissertation
hours (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 6311 Crime and Justice Policy
CRIM 6313 Corrections
CRIM 6314 Policing
CRIM 6315 Violent Crime
CRIM 6317 Courts
CRIM 6322 Crime Prevention
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
CRIM 8V92 Independent Advanced Research
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