This track is designed to allow students the flexibility to prepare for multiple careers in forensics through selection of restricted elective courses. To insure that you are receiving accurate information, please choose your appropriate catalog year, then look up your degree requirements. Degree requirements may change from year to year. Students will develop communication and leadership skills through the University’s general education requirements, service, and extracurricular opportunities.For an overview of Undergraduate Degree Requirements see the Undergraduate Catalog.Students will learn the importance of ethics and quality assurance in the application of scientific examinations of physical evidence.Students will learn critical aspects of the criminal justice system, criminal investigation, common law principles, and rules of evidence through criminal justice administration course work and participation in mock court proceedings.Students will gain practical crime scene processing and evidence handling experience using appropriate equipment and technology in mock crime scene scenarios in a dedicated crime scene house.Students will develop an understanding of the importance of the scientific method and its application in crime scene processing and reconstruction.Students will gain practical instrumental experience using professional laboratory equipment such as the comparison microscope, gas chromatograph/mass spectrometer, scanning electron microscope, infrared spectrometer, microspectrophotometer, polarized light microscope, stereo microscope, and other analytical tools typically found in the forensic laboratory.Students will develop an understanding of the principles and techniques utilized by forensic science practitioners in the laboratory and at the crime scene.

Students will learn critical thinking skills and understand forensic science professional practice through theory and hands-on experiences in the lab and field.

Students will develop a sound natural science foundation and obtain minors in both biology and chemistry.

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