General Schedule, Required Readings and Activities

05-06

 

Schedule and required reading

  • Introduction, course expectations etc
    • HW: Read Section 1.1.2 pages 2-3 & Chapter 2 excluding Box 2.1 pages 14-15

 

  • Simulated crime scene lab – have students use templates, rulers and measuring tapes to draw and work up the crime scene.
    • HW: finish crime scene and answer question 2 pg. 42

 

  • Chapter 3 – Hairs and Fibers
    • Read Chapter 3, pages 45-64 excluding Box 3.3 page 52 and Box 3.5 page 257-59
    • Chapter 3 Case Study: Wayne Williams
    • Labs 1& 2 – Fibers and Hairs
      • Optional reading: pp.60-74 (glass, soils and paints)
      • HW: Find and print one article on the forensic use of hair and fiber analysis. Add the article to your 3-ring binder
  • Chapter 4 – Fingerprints and other marks and impressions
    • Read Chapter 4 on fingerprints pp. 79-87
    • Lab 3 – Fingerprinting
    • Case Study – Will West & Thomas Jennings
      • HW: Find and print one article on the forensic use of fingerprinting and fingerprints. Add the article to your 3-ring binder.
     
  • Bite Marks (also Chapter 4)
    • Read pages 97-98
    • Lab 4- Bite Mark Analysis
    • Case Study – Ted Bundy
      • HW: Find and print one article on the forensic use of bitemarks. Add the article to your 3-ring binder.
      • Tool marks – demo: restoring serial numbers
      • Optional reading: pp. 98-99, 103-104 (tool marks and fabrics)

 

  • Chapter 6 – DNA Analysis
    • Read Chapter 6: pp. 129-153
    • Lab 7 – DNA Analysis
    • Case study: Colin Pitchfork and Dr. Schneeberger
      • HW: Find and print one article on the forensic use of DNA profiling. Add the article to your 3-ring binder.
      • Optional Reading: pp. 154-164 (analysis and other sources of DNA)
       
  • Chapter 7: Forensic Toxicology
      • Forensic Toxicology PowerPoint
      • Lab 8 – Forensic Toxicology
      • Read Chapter 7: pp. 172-188, 190-193
      • Case Study – Stella Nickell
        • HW: Find and print one article on the forensic use of toxicology. Add the article to your 3-ring binder.
         
  • Chapter 9: Ballistics & Firearms
    • Lab 9 – Ballistics
    • Firearms PowerPoint
    • Lab 10 - Serial Number Restoration
    • Read Box 9.1 (pp. 240-242), Box 9.2 (p. 252) and pp. 262-266
      • HW: Find and print one article on the forensic use of hair and fiber analysis. Add the article to your 3-ring binder
       
  •  Chapter 12: Establishing PMI and Forensic Anthropology
    • Forensic Anthropology PowerPoint
    • Read pp. 324-329 (Establishing post mortem interval)
    • Lab 11: Forensic Anthropology (note that the background material for this lab is found minaly in the lab handout itself - there is very little in the textbook on forensic anthropology)
      • HW: Find and print one article on the forensic use of forensic entomology. Add the article to your 3-ring binder.
  • Forensic Entomology PowerPoint