Advanced Science - Forensic Science

ADVANCED SCIENCE – FORENSIC SCIENCE: This course will familiarize students with the basic principles and uses of forensic sciences in crime scene investigations.  Students will be introduced to crime scene analysis and techniques.  The course will focus on the basic applications of the physical, chemical, medical and behavioral sciences to questions of evidence and law.  It will include topics such as hair and fiber evidence, glass and soil analysis, drugs, ballistics, arson, serology, DNA, prints, entomology and basic anthropology. Students will study crime scene analysis and techniques as well as many cases in both recent times and also in history.

Full year

Prerequisite: Completion of ICP and Biology with a C+ or better        

Grade Level 10-11-12

A Core 40 or AHD science course