3 courses with the subject FSC, each shown exactly as we captured it from the college's catalog, with every element we hold. Where the wording looks broken, that is our reading of the catalog, not the college's text.
FSC 211Fundamentals of Forensic Science3
Survey of theories, methods, techniques and applications of various forensic science disciplines. Topics include but are not limited to: crime scene and death investigation; body identification; forensic biology and chemistry; pattern, trace, and imprint evidence analysis; and forensic behavioral science.
Introduction to laboratory methods and analysis in the forensic sciences. Topics include: processing evidence and crime scenes, fingerprinting, DNA, blood spatter, fiber and hair analysis, impression evidence, fractography and glass, autopsy, time since death estimation, body identification, questioned documents, arson, toxicology, and firearm analysis.
Skeletal elements are a common form of evidentiary material having medicolegal significance within the forensic sciences. This course provides detailed instruction on the major bones and features of the human skeleton, including dentition. It covers methods and techniques of analysis to identify bones and bone fragments. Applied learning exercises foster discernment skills in recognizing human skeletal material apart from intact and fragmentary nonhuman bones and teeth.
