FORENSIC SCIENCE

Forensic Science is a semester-long laboratory elective that discusses the relationship between science and a court of law. Topics will include evidence collection, hair and fiber analysis, fingerprinting, DNA evidence, tool markings and impressions, blood evidence, crime scene processing, and other forms of physical evidence. At the completion of the course, students will have knowledge of the proper collection and comparison of evidence, how evidence can be used to convict or exonerate a suspect, and the laboratory skills involved in processing evidence.