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Curriculum
Required Credit Hours/Tuition and Fees
- Thesis Option: 42
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Program of Study
Core Courses (33 credit hours)
- FORS 501: Foundations of Criminalistics Seminar (3 credit hours)
- FORS 503: Thesis Proposal Formulation (1 credit hour)
- FORS 521: Forensic Investigation of Latent Prints and Ballistics (1 credit hour)
- FORS 525: Forensic Court Procedure and Moot Court (1 credit hour)
- FORS 541: Forensic Data Analysis Seminar (2 credit hours)
- FORS 591: Forensic Science Seminar (4 credit hours total - 2 credit hours taken twice)
- FORS 595: Forensic Science Research (6 credit hours total - 2 credit hours taken three times)
- FORS 599: Thesis in Forensic Science (1 credit hour)
- CHEM 432: Forensic Chemistry (3 credit hours)
- CHEM 537: Forensic Chemistry laboratory (1 credit hour)
- BIOL 424: Forensic Toxicology or ENSC 431 Environmental Toxicology (3 credit hours)
- BIOL 423: Forensic Biology (3 credit hours)
- BIOL 417: Quantitative Methods in the Biological Sciences (4 credit hours)
Elective Hours (9 credit hours)
- 9 credit hours in graduate-level coursework in Anthropology, Biology, or Chemistry (at least 1 credit hour must be at 500-level)
Students will select a thesis advisor and graduate thesis committee during the first semester in the program. The thesis advisor will provide mentoring on the selection of appropriate elective course work in the program.
