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3.00 Credits
Prereq: 101, jr. Explores various types of trace evidence including blood spatter interpretation, fiber, hair, paint, glass, and gunshot residue. Includes techniques for identifying, collecting, preserving, and analyzing trace evidence. F., Sp.
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3.00 Credits
Prereq: 101, jr. Explores basic and advanced kinesics interview and interrogation techniques including multiphase behavioral analysis system and stress determination by verbal and nonverbal behavior. F., Sp.
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1.00 Credits
Prereq: 101, jr. Covers practical application of expert testimony and professional courtroom demeanor. Includes rules of evidence, criminal procedure, trial preparation, and development of skills in the presentation of testimony. F.
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3.00 Credits
Prereq: jr or perm of director. Explores various types of fire evidence including origin and cause determination, fire behavior, critical observation, structure and vehicle fires, role of science, documentation, and legal considerations. Also includes fundamental investigation of explosion and bombing crime scenes, and techniques for identifying, collecting, preserving, and analyzing fire and explosion evidence. F.
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3.00 Credits
Prereq: jr or perm of director. Explores the role of fire investigators and inspectors and the investigative process. Topics include philosophy and history of fire protection, building construction in relation to fires, fire detection and alarm systems, heat and smoke control systems, fire loss analysis, and an overview of the fire protection profession. Sp.
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3.00 Credits
Prereq: jr or perm of director. Explores the role of molecular biology and genetics in a legal and scientific setting including DNA evidence, analysis of bodily fluids and tissues, and identification techniques. Includes techniques for identifying, collecting, preserving, and analyzing biological evidence F.
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3.00 Credits
Prereq: jr or perm of director. Explores the process of the medicolegal death investigation. Topics include the history of death investigation; legal considerations; forensic identification; modes and manners of death; methods of investigation; and deaths involving disease, trauma, asphyxiation and drowning, and fire-related causes. Focuses on the role of the death scene investigator. F.
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3.00 Credits
Prereq: jr or perm of director. Explores the role of sexual assault investigation. Topics include history of society's response to sex crimes, major case investigation techniques, forensic applications, offender typologies and victim studies, legal procedures and judicial decisions, and expert testimony. Sp.
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3.00 Credits
Prereq: jr or perm of director. Provides a comprehensive study of general principles and fundamentals of forensic toxicology, poisons, action, toxicity, postmortem characteristics, and samples required for toxicological analysis. Includes methods of collection, preservation and analysis. Specifically explores the chemical, toxicological and pathological characteristics of commonly abused drugs and details the methods employed for analysis such as color test, micro diffusion, chromatography (GC, GLC, HPLC) , mass spectrometry (MS) , GC-MS, and radioimmunoassay (RIA) . Also address the toxicologist as an expert witness. F, Sp.
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3.00 Credits
Prereq: jr or perm of director. Examines in detail the use of insects in forensic investigations, especially homicide. Includes study of the succession of insects on a human corpse and its use in determining the postmortem interval, with emphasis on the collection of insect evidence. Also covers presentation of entomological findings in court. Sp.
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