This is a one credit year long course. This course focuses on problem solving, critical thinking skills and the practices and analysis of physical evidences found at crime scenes. Students are taught the basic processes and principles of scientific thinking and techniques as applied to solving crimes. These include fingerprinting, DNA analysis, blood typing and spattering, comparative anatomy, chemical analysis of drugs, poisons, and trace evidence, and the dynamics of the Physical Sciences. Opportunities for making connections to STEM are interspersed throughout the course. Career connections are deeply embedded in each topic of study.
