FSCI 630 Crime Scene Investigation

4 credits

Teaches the student how to process a crime scene properly. Students learn how to photograph, sketch, and document a crime scene for presentation of those findings in a court of law. Students will be given the opportunity to perform hands on activities, such as development of latent prints, lifting and preserving prints, making plaster casts of impressions, packaging and preserving biological types of evidence, and performing elementary screen tests for some evidence categories. Laboratory course.

Prerequisite(s): FSCI 500 and FSCI 610