Forensic Services (Graduate Certificate)
This 16-credit graduate certificate program is designed for criminal justice and mental health professionals. Our program provides a strong grounding in basic social science, mental health counseling and social theory, while at the same time offering practical skills and competencies in mental health and criminal justice. This enables students to serve as effective professionals in a variety of social service environments where the problems of crime and mental illness intersect.
The program's emphasis on analysis and its interdisciplinary approach are strengthened by collaborations between four academic units: the Department of Psychology, Department of Sociology, and the Graduate Program in Counseling at UMass Boston, as well as the Department of Psychiatry at the UMass School of Medicine.
Requirements: Five 3-credit courses and a 1-credit field experience project. (Students matriculated in Applied Sociology can substitute Sociol 698 for Sociol 598):
All three of the following:
COUNSL 614: Counseling Theory and Practice I
PSYCH 614: Forensic Psychology
SOCIOL 598: Field Experience Project (1 credit)
Two of the following:
SOCIOL 623: Alcohol, Drugs and Crime
SOCIOL 667: Sociology of Law
SOCIOL 690: Classic and Contemporary Views of the Nature of Crime
SOCIOL 691: Contemporary Issues in Responding to Crime
One of the following:
SOCIOL 618: Psychiatric Epidemiology
SOCIOL 621: Social Psychiatry
SOCIOL 682: Sociology of Health and Illness
Click here to download the Fact Sheet for the Forensic Services Certificate.
For complete information, including admission requirements, please refer to the University College Forensic Services Certificate webpage.
Contact information for the Forensic Services Program Director is available here.
Read the Report on Forensic Services Program Alumni, 2004. This research was conducted by Kathleen Clark as her Master's Research Paper, Spring 2004, under the direction of Professor Stephanie Hartwell and Professor Russell Schutt.
