FSCC - Bachelor of Science in Forensic Chemistry Track

Forensic Sciences is the application of scientific principles to matters defined by civil and criminal law. It is a compilation of all the hard-core sciences, including the fields of chemistry, biology, physics, geology, and mathematics in the solving of crimes by the evidence left behind at a crime scene. All three of the major tracks and the minor are designed to prepare students with a strong scientific background directed to the recognition, identification, individualization, and evaluation of physical evidence. The major tracks are directed to preparing the student to work either as a crime scene investigator or in a laboratory environment, or to continue their education at the graduate school level. As such, the majors, minor and concentration focuses on the main elements of criminalistics, including analysis of blood, fibers, glass, paint, soils, hair, and the fields of toxicology, DNA analysis, serology, forensic anthropology, human pathology, and numerous other areas germane to the scientific study of evidence. The concentration in the area focuses on assisting those students who want to primarily go into law enforcement as a police officer to be able to use science in the process of solving crimes but do not want to become immersed in the required sciences.

For the Forensic Sciences program, there are three possible tracks: Forensic Sciences for students wanting to be crime scene investigators, to law school or to graduate school, or work outside of a laboratory field mandating extensive chemistry or biology backgrounds (such as Forensic Anthropology or Fingerprint Analysis); Forensic Chemistry for working in laboratory environments dealing with chemistry problems; Forensic Biology for working in laboratory environments specializing in biology problems, particularly DNA analysis.