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Please contact Mrs. Suzanna Taylor for additional information.

Total Required Credit Hours: 20

Some of the skills a student will learn in the CSI Minor Program include:

• Using Dual Contrast Fingerprint powder to lift latent prints
• Collect 10-print elimination fingerprint cards
• Crime scene photography using DSLR cameras: Low Light Photography, Painting with Light Techniques, Bullet Laser Trajectory Photography, Fill Flash, and Blood Enhancement Using Blue Star Photography
• Crime scene sketching, mapping, logging, and processing methodology
• Impression casting using Dental stone and Mikrosil
• Presumptive Blood Tests, such as Phenolphthalein, and Road Mapping
• Experience Using the Scientific Working Group on Bloodstain Pattern Analysis (SWGSTAIN) report framework for narrative crime scene reports
• Writing search warrant affidavits and search warrants
• Documenting and Analyzing bullet impact entrance angles to the horizontal plan on bullet holes using various tools such as the Kaleidoscope kit, zero-edged protractor, digital angle finders, trajectory angle finders, and Excel calculations.
• HemoSpat Bloodstain Pattern Analysis software: Area of Origin for Bloodstain Pattern Analysis
• Self-Proficiency Testing: Bloodstain Pattern Analysis, Area of Origin Using the HemoSpat software, Tangent Method, and Stringing Method.
• Experience in Collecting, Packaging, and Sealing Evidence Items
• Collecting Bloodstains Using a Road Map Technique
• Chain of Custody Requirements
• Property Room Management:

• • Experience in Writing Evidence Packaging Manuals
  • Evidence Storage Oversight
  • Evidence Audits/Inventories
  • Purging Laws
  • Risk Management Solutions

• Mock Courtroom Testimony: Mock Testimony Practicums, Daubert Standards

Below is an interview with Gracie Howle, 海角社区 2023 Criminal Justice major and Crime Scene Investigation minor. Gracie currently works as a Crime Scene Technician in the Forsyth County Sheriff's Office in Cumming, Georgia.

What were the biggest takeaways for you from the CSI coursework?

• I think the biggest thing is the way that you taught the class and how it's pertaining to our real life and real-world experiences what we did in the lab and what I did in your classroom and things like that. I'm doing that every single day now. So, I think just the overall experience and the leadership of 海角社区 and the criminal Justice Department.

What one skill would you say that you use the most on a day for day basis?

• We collect blood samples the same way I taught it in class. We do photography same way. Check your ISO things like that. We do it how we turn off the lights in your lab and things like that. So, literally your minor is what I do every single day of my life.