Cyber Criminology

• Foster intellectual curiosity. 

• Achieve breadth of knowledge across socio-anthropological substantive areas and depth within one area 

• Write and speak clearly and fluently while also incorporating the socio-anthropological knowledge (i.e. terms, concepts, and theories) that they have gained in their socio-anthropological coursework. 

• Practice the skill of connecting social observations with theory so that the theories alluded to in #3 can be used by graduates throughout their lives to develop sophisticated assessments about the causes and effects of human actions. 

• Develop a foundation of socio-anthropological theory about the way humans interact with the social and physical world such that they can use them to understand and assess a variety of human actions around the world. 

• Develop the skills and knowledge to conduct basic socio-anthropological investigations. This would include being familiar with the process by which an individual can: develop sociological hypotheses; collect pertinent sociological data; analyze data qualitatively and quantitatively; develop conclusions about the issue(s) in question. 

• Find, understand, and critically assess scholarly and analytic socio-anthropological literature. 

• Break free from the leash of cultural conformity by learning to think critically and creatively about issues for themselves without relying on others (authorities) to make the assessments for them. 

Full Course Catalogue  Course Descriptions

Core Requirements

• SOC 101 Introduction to Sociology (fulfills General Studies Foundations Social Science requirement)
• SOC 202 The Criminal Justice System
• SOC 210 Research Methods
• SOC 211 Statistics (fulfills General Studies Foundations Quantitative Reasoning requirement)
• SOC 213 Social Theory
• SOC 490 Senior Seminar  

Specialized Criminology Requirements

• SOC 202 The Criminal Justice System
• SOC 251 Crime and Deviance  
• Any one of the following:
  • SOC 253 Criminal Investigation and SOC 254 Advanced Criminal Investigation (must take both courses)
  • ANT 310 Crime, Culture and Conflict Resolution
  • SOC 302 Juvenile Delinquency
  • SOC 305 Terrorism
  • SOC 307 Organized Crime
  • SOC 311 Domestic Violence
  • SOC 360 Crime & the Media
  • SOC 383 Race and the School to Prison Pipeline
  • SOC 385 Violence & Victims
• Any one of the following:
  • SOC 440 Ethnographies in Crime
  • SOC 450 White Collar Crime
  • SOC 460 Serial Murder  

CSC Requirements

• CSC 141 Foundations of Computer Science I
• CSC 142 Foundations of Computer Science II
• CSC 210 Algorithm Design and Analysis
• CSC 220 Discrete Structures and Computing Paradigms
• CSC 310 Computer Architecture and Organization
• CSC 490 Senior Seminar  
• One additional 300 or 400 level CSC course  

Internships and Career Support

Students can connect with the Career Development Center to find internships with law enforcement agencies, government offices, nonprofit organizations, or private firms focused on cybercrime, digital forensics, fraud prevention, and online security, applying criminological theory and technical skills to real-world investigations and policy challenges.

ACRE Undergraduate Research

Students in any major can engage in interdisciplinary undergraduate research through the Albright Creative Research Experience (ACRE), partnering with faculty mentors to pursue independent research or creative projects and present their work beyond the classroom.