Forensic Science Program Mission
Our mission as a forensic science program is to develop professional, ethical graduates whose competence in problem-solving, legal analysis and application, quantitative reasoning, investigation and scientific laboratory procedures can be applied to immediate employment or advanced study.
Forensic Science Program Goals:
Produce professional graduates with
- Critical thinking and analysis abilities
- Laboratory skills to exacting standards of precision and care
- Problem-solving skills
- Ability to apply diverse information to solve a real problem
- Conceptual understanding of criminal justice system
- Excellent oral and written communication skills
- Professional demeanor
- Obtain and maintain program accreditation
- Sustain an average of 5 graduates per year.
- Prepare students for post baccalaureate study or employment.
Forensic Science Educational Objectives:
- Develop critical thinking and analysis in a stepwise fashion that builds through the sequence of courses.
- Develop problem-solving skills in a stepwise fashion that builds through the sequence of courses.
- Culminate in a capstone course experience that requires synthesis of diverse skills and abilities in the solution of a real problem.
- Laboratory skills to exacting standards of precision and care, including spectroscopic and wet chemical methods of analysis, microscopy, molecular biotechnologic methods, comparative, and preparation of solution/standards.
- Approach analysis of evidence without bias.
- Develop a conceptual understanding of criminal justice system, rules of evidence, legal system.
- Graduates are competitive for application to professional schools, graduate programs.
- Graduates are competitive for employment in a field that uses their degree.
- Develop oral and written communication skills through the sequence of courses, with particular attention to development of the ability to present technical information without bias, at a variety of levels.
- Develop the ability to use diplomacy and professionalism in group interactions throughout the sequence of courses.
- Produce graduates who demonstrate ethical backgrounds and who can articulate the ethical and professional standards of the discipline.
- Graduates perform at a satisfactory level on standardized exams chosen to measure their performance.