Students will learn and use equipment and techniques germane to the field of forensics to process and evaluate evidence from mock crime scenes as well as Virtual Crime Cases using actual crimes with actual crime scene photos. Students will employ various diagnostic tests and methods from the sciences of serology, pathology, ballistics, physics, and biochemistry to solve simulated criminal cases. The laboratory experience will invite students to utilize an array of scientific techniques and to confront and deliberate the ethical and legal implications surrounding the application of forensic science in a court of law. Each lab will have an hour of powerpoint lecture of cases followed by 2 hours of laboratory experience analyzing fingerprints, fibers, footprints, hair, blood, tool marks, bullets, glass, etc. Students will take photographs and sketch the various crime scenes.

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