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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
An overview of many of the major disciplines in forensic science. Topics include and Introduction to law relevant to forensic science, crime scene investigation, fingerprints, firearms, trace evidence, drug evidence, forensic toxicology, forensic serology, forensic DNA, ignitable liquids, and explosives. Lecture only.
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3.00 Credits
An introduction to the principles of and forensic evidence relevant to arson, explosives, and firearms. The first half of the course focuses on the science of fire and explosives as well as methods for analysis of relevant evidence. The second half of the course provides the principles of firearms and methods used for characterization of firearms evidence.
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4.00 Credits
An examination of scientific techniques used to develop forensic evidence discovered at a crime scene offered in a practical laboratory setting.
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3.00 Credits
This course is designed to provide hands-on experience in firearms evidence examination, with a focus on microscopic methods. The course will explore common types of firearms evidence such as cartridge casings, bullets, bullet fragments, shot pellets, and gunshot residues. Students will compare fired bullets and cartridges with unknown samples, primarily using comparison microscopy.
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4.00 Credits
This course is designed to help students transition the knowledge and skills gained in their laboratory and coursework into employment in working forensic laboratories. The following topics, in the context of forensic science, are covered: quality assurance, courtroom testimony, ethics, data integrity, and employment practices.
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3.00 Credits
Provides experience in reviewing the scientific literature, scientific writing, and presentation. The products of the course are a manuscript and presentation reviewing the scientific literature in a topic of forensic science. The course culminates in students presenting their work for the faculty and/or forensic practitioners.
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4.00 Credits
This course provides an overview of the landforms, climate, ecology, populations, economy, politics, and cultures of the regions of the world. Through attention to particular regions and their inter-relations, we will examine global issues such as development, migration, inequality, urbanization, nationalism, conflict, trade, and climate change.
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4.00 Credits
This course examines theories, conflicts, and crises in global natural resource utilization. We will explore the causes of looming social and ecological threats and opportunities in areas such as global warming, food security, water wars, pollution, biodiversity, inequality, and development. We will evaluate debates over population and scarcity, commodities and institutions, environmental ethics, political economy, and socio-ecological change, and use them to inform our understandings of the promises and pitfalls of proposed personal, cultural, economic, and political solutions to resource dilemmas.
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4.00 Credits
Why are some areas wealthy and some areas poor? Why do particular kinds of economic activities cluster in regions like Silicon Valley, Wall Street, and China's Pearl River Delta? How do landscape, politics, and culture shape economic fortunes? There are spatial-geographic dimensions to all global economic activities: resource extraction, production, work, logistics, consumption, finance, debt, technological innovation, migration, and social reproduction. Considering geographic scales from the household division of labor up through global commodity chains, we'll explore the historical development, current dilemmas, and future directions of the world economy- with an eye towards crucial questions of growth, sustainability, and justice.
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4.00 Credits
This course presents the fundamentals of Geographic Information Systems (GIS). Students will learn how to design and create digital maps, and will master the basic techniques of spatial analysis. We will use maps and other GIS tools to uncover the hidden geo-spatial relationships that shape the world around us. Through lectures, discussion, and hands-on exercises and projects, the course will explore the many applications of GIS in the social sciences and environmental sciences as well as in the humanities, public policy and urban affairs.
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