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2024-2025 NOVA Catalog
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ADJ 171 - Forensic Science I (4 CR.)


Introduces student to crime scene technology, procedures for sketching, diagramming and using casting materials. Surveys the concepts of forensic chemistry, fingerprint classification/identification and latent techniques, drug identification, hair and fiber evidence, death investigation techniques, thin-layer chromatographic methods, and arson materials examination. Part I of II.

  Lecture 3 hours. Laboratory 3 hours. Total 6 hours per week.

Credit for Prior Learning (CPL) available for this course. More information at https://www.nvcc.edu/admissions/cpl.html.



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