Forensic Science: Crime Scenes

Catalog description

This course is for both science and non-science majors. The course will delve into the history of the development of crime scene investigation, with a focus on the hands-on applications of these techniques. Students will analyze real crime case studies to understand how different areas of criminalistics have been used historically. Students will also learn to perform the scientific techniques used to solve crime. The skills learned in the course may include crime scene re-construction, statistics, hair analysis, glass analysis, fingerprint analysis, and other key aspects of chemistry, physics, biology, biochemistry, and toxicology used in this field. The course will consist of 3 credits of lecture and 1 credit of laboratory.