Distance Learning Course Description
COURSE
NAME:
Forensic
Science
SCHOOL DISTRICT: HFM BOCES
INSTRUCTOR: Erika
Bucenec
Full Year
COURSE PREREQUISITES: Would
prefer if student completed high school level Biology.
BRIEF COURSE DESCRIPTION / OUTLINE:
This course will introduce you to basic scientific principles and
techniques used by law enforcement agencies
when they investigate a crime scene. The importance of proper collection
and identification of relevant
physical evidence using systematic procedures of search, collection,
documentation, and analysis of
evidence will be the main focus of this course.
We will study how the properties of physical evidence can be used
to reconstruct the events surrounding
the commission of a crime and how it can connect the victim to the
perpetrator of a crime.
We will also use broadcast television programs, newspaper
articles, and the internet to gain insight into the
methods to which scientific investigating can help solve crimes. Laboratory
exercises will also be incorporated
during the scheduled class.
12/31/08
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