Criminalistics

Catalog description

Criminalistics is a 3 credit course designed to introduce the technology of the recent crime laboratory in a comprehensible way. Upon close observation of the evidence, a criminalist must be able to piece together the events that may have transpired at a crime scence. There are many specializations in criminalistics including computer forensics, arson, blood and tissue spatter, DNA, toxicology, serology,firearms, and tool-marks, among others.Criminalists may also be called in a course of law to testify.