GRADUATE PROGRAMS

PhD Program

Along with the College of Criminal Justice Faculty and Staff, Dean Greene is pleased to announce that the new Criminology and Justice Policy Ph.D. program will launch in the fall of 2004. Recently approved by the NU Board of Trustees, this announcement follows nearly three years of efforts on the part of the faculty and administration to both research the national landscape of criminal justice- oriented doctoral programs and design a ground breaking, innovative program that meets the needs of a rapidly changing criminal justice environment. The program will focus on applied research with a strong urban focus to prepare highly-skilled criminal justice faculty and scholars, applied researchers and senior agency administrators.

The proposed program will consist of 64 semester hours of course work (32 beyond the semester-based master's degree requirements). Students will be required to take a series of eight theory and methods core courses, including Criminology, Criminal Justice Process, a law course, Advanced Criminological Theory, Research Methods with lab, Evaluation Methods, Statistics with lab, and Multivariate Statistics, in addition to two third year practica and twelve elective courses.