CJUS 2020 — - The Science of Solving Crimes
Students will actively identify, compare, and process evidence from crime scene to crime lab. This course allows students to gather and preserve physical evidence, as well as apply scientific techniques used in connection with the detection and determination of crime. Topics include ballistics, chromatography, blood spatter analysis, fingerprinting, trace evidence, and DNA extraction. Lecture: 3 hours, Lab: 2 hours Course completes the following requirements: Critical Thinking Scientific Reasoning Lab Science Requirement Mathematics and Science URI/RIC Transfer General Education Transfer Opportunity: Yes