This course will broadly survey the disciplines and technology within the field of Forensic Sciences. These disciplines include crime scene investigation techniques, medicolegal death investigation, and patterned evidence examination, and traditional forensic laboratory (criminalistics) disciplines-specifically forensic drug chemistry, forensic toxicology, trace evidence, fire debris, explosives, and forensic molecular biology. A laboratory component provides hands-on exercise with current instrumentation used in Forensic Sciences. This course can be enrolled in by persons not admitted to the professional program, with approval of the Instructor of Record.

This course will broadly survey the disciplines and technology within the field of Forensic Sciences. These disciplines include crime scene investigation techniques, medicolegal death investigation, and patterned evidence examination, and traditional forensic laboratory (criminalistics) disciplines-specifically forensic drug chemistry, forensic toxicology, trace evidence, fire debris, explosives, and forensic molecular biology. A laboratory component provides hands-on exercise with current instrumentation used in Forensic Sciences. This course can be enrolled in by persons not admitted to the professional program, with approval of the Instructor of Record.