Forensic Chemistry Laboratory. 1 credit

Catalog description

This course will correlate laboratory exercises to the theoretical and investigative principles of forensic chemistry. The laboratory experiments and activities have been designed to expand on and support the material taught in the lecture section of the Forensic Chemistry course ( FRSC 304 ). Students will have hands-on experience with basic forensic chemistry procedures and commonly used laboratory instrumentation. This laboratory course will enable students to explore the use of presumptive testing, controlled substance analysis, blood alcohol measurements, explosive residue analysis, ignitable liquid residue analysis, and chemical enhancement techniques used at crime scenes and in investigative procedures. The students will have hands-on experience using TLC, GC, GC/MS, and FTIR instrumentation and they will learn the fundamentals of how they operate and how to interpret the data generated by these systems.Offered by Forensic Sciences. Limited to three attempts.