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School of Criminal Justice
IT Concentration
The
Information Technology Concentrations in the
M.A. and Ph.D. Programs
The
information technology graduate curriculum
provided by the School of Criminal Justice
builds on the School's outstanding reputation
as a center of high level quantitative
research in criminal justice. The curriculum
is designed to extend and expand the statistical
and methodological expertise learned in
the traditional sequence of the School's
methods and statistical courses. Ph.D.
and M.A. students take a selection of
courses in Information Technology to earn
a degree with a concentration in information
technology in criminal justice. For the
MA, these courses are ordinarily taken
in lieu of an equivalent number of electives.
The
9-credit M.A. Concentration requires:
1.
IST 523 (Fundamentals of IT) or INF 523
(Fundamentals of IT)
2.
Data Utilization I
3.
CRJ 693 (GIS) or CRJ 695 (Responsible
Use of CJ Information)
4.
A non-credit module encompassing data
utilization software (focusing, for
example, on SPSS)
The
15-credit Ph.D. Concentration requires:
1.
IST 523 (Fundamentals of IT) or INF 523
(Fundamentals of IT)
2.
CRJ 692 (Advanced Data Utilization)
3.
CRJ 693 (GIS)
4.
CRJ 695 (Responsible Use of CJ Information)
5.
CRJ 694 (Spatial Data Analysis) or
CRJ 690 (Statistical
Techniques in CJ Research III)
School of Criminal Justice, University at Albany, SUNY
135 Western Avenue
Albany, NY 12222 USA
Phone: (518) 442 - 5214 • Fax: (518) 442 - 5212
