BS in Fraud and Financial Crime Investigation Curriculum

The Fraud and Financial Crime program has two concentrations: Financial Investigation and Fraud Prevention and Detection.

The curriculum for each concentration allows students to dig deeper into specific areas of fraud and financial crime investigation with more in-depth coursework in subjects such as accounting, corporate finance, payment systems, privacy, and new technologies that detect and prevent fraud.

Check out the course descriptions here.

Students who have already earned an A.A. degree or equivalent are eligible to enroll in Utica College's Online Fraud and Financial Crime Investigation Bachelor's program.

See the Internships and Job Placements page for more information about the internship process for CRJ 470, and see examples of companies at which our students have interned.

Major Course Requirements (25-28 credit hours)		Credit Hours
CRJ 101	Seminar in Justice Studies	1
CRJ 103	Intro to Criminal Justice	3
CRJ 232	Economic Crime Theory	3
CRJ 334	Economic Crime Investigation	3
CRJ 335	Cybercrime Law and Investigations	3
CRJ 336	Information Privacy	3
CRJ 343	Law of Economic Crime	3
CRJ 461	Proseminar in Justice Studies	3
CRJ 470	Internship OR	6
CRJ 475	Senior Project	3

Major Related Requirements (18 credit hours)		Credit Hours
ACC 201	Financial Accounting	3
ECN 131	Principles of Microeconomics	3
SOC 274	Criminology	3
MAT 112	Basic Statistics, OR	3
PSY/SOC 211	Statistics in the Behavioral Sciences, OR	3
ECN 241	Statistics	3
SOC 376	Criminological Research Methods	3
GOV 341	Jurisprudence of the Criminal Law	3

Financial Investigation Concentration Courses (18 credit hours)		Credit Hours
ACC 202	Managerial Accounting	3
ACC 301	Intermediate Accounting I	3
ACC 302	Intermediate Accounting II	3
ACC 303	Cost Management, OR	3
ACC 401	Auditing	3
ACC 406	Forensic Accounting & Fraud Auditing	3
FIN 333	Corporate Finance	3

Fraud Prevention and Detection Concentration Courses (18 credit hours)		Credit Hours
CRJ 347	Fraud Prevention and Detection Technologies	3
CRJ 353	Fraud Prevention Techniques	3
CRJ 354	Payment Systems and Fraud	3
CRJ 365	Advanced Issues in Economic Crime	3
CRJ 444	Fraud and Compliance Operations	3
Select one of the following:
CRJ 313	Corruption and Organized Crime, OR	3
CRJ 314	Modern Techniques in Crime Investigation, OR	3
ECN 343	Money and Banking, OR	3
RMI 273	Introduction to Risk Management, OR	3
PHI 108	Professional Ethics	3

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BS in Fraud and Financial Crime Investigation Curriculum