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FCM 210 Criminalistics

Fall/Spring

This is the first course in the Forensic Science curriculum.  It is designed as a scientific overview of several areas of forensic science.  Some of the areas of study are history of criminalistics, legal aspects of evidence analysis, expert witnesses, ethics, fingerprinting, impression evidence, handwriting analysis, trace analysis, firearms, forensic serology and DNA analysis, fire debris analysis, explosives, drug analysis and toxicology.  This course is cross-listed as CCJ 236 . 2 lecture hours.   Corequisite: FCM 211 

4 credit hours