CHEM 102 – Forensic Science w/ Lab – Fall 2015
Instructor: Dr. Audra Goach Sostarecz
356 Center for Science and Business
309-457-2252 - office
309-221-9432 – cell
asostarecz@monmouthcollege.edu
Office Hours: 11:00am - 12:00pm M,W
2:00pm – 3:00pm T
1:00pm-2:00pm F
others by appointment
Lecture: TR 12:30pm-1:45pm CSB 378
Laboratory: R 2:00-3:50pm CSB 312
Required Textbook: Richard Saferstein, Criminalistics: An Introduction to Forensic Science, 9th edition, Prentice-Hall, New
Jersey, 2004.
Lab Handouts: Taken with permission from: L. J. Kaplan, "A Laboratory Manual for an Introduction to the Crime Lab,"
Williamstown, Massachusetts, 2006.
Required Readings and Handouts: TBA on webpage http://personal.monm.edu/asostarecz/default.htm
Mon
Tues
Wed
Thursday
24
25
26
27
Thursday
LAB
Lab #1
Class Introduction
31
What is Forensic Science?
Chapter 1
Sep 1
What is Forensic Science?
Chapter 1
2
Pick groups for Case Study
3
Introduction to the Lab
and Lab Safety
Lab #2
Fingerprinting
Chapter 14
7
8
Fingerprinting
Chapter 14
9
The Art of Taking and
Lifting Fingerprints
10
Lab #3
14
The Microscope
Chapter 7
The Microscope
Chapter 7
15
Hairs, Fibers, and Paint
Chapter 8
17
16
Microscopes
Lab #4
Hairs, Fibers, and Paint
Chapter 8
21
Physical Evidence
Chapter 3
22
Hairs, Fibers, and Paint
Chapter 8
23
Qualitative
Identification of Fibers
24
Lab #6
Glass Fragments
Chapter 4
Glass Fragments
Chapter 4
Density of Glass
Physical Properties
Chapter 4
28
29
EXAM I
30
Oct 1
Processing the Crime Scene
Chapter 2
Lab #7
Measurements/ Photos /
Sketches
Mon
day
5
Tues
Wed
Thursday
6
Organic Analysis
Chapter 5
Elements and Compounds
7
8
Organic Analysis
Chapter 5
Elements and Compounds
Exercise in Naming Elements and
Compounds
OCT
12
13
Thursday
LAB
Case Study Mini
Presentations
Exercise in Protons, Neutrons,
and Electrons
14
15
Lab #8
Organic Analysis
Chapter 5
Analytical Techniques
Spectrophotometry
Organic Analysis
Chapter 5
Analytical Techniques
Spectrophotometry
Exercise in calculating wavelength,
frequency, and energy
Exercise in calculating
wavelength, frequency, and
energy
19
Fall
Brea
k
20
Fall Break
26
27
21
Energy and Light
22
Lab #9
Organic Analysis
Chapter 5
Analytical Techniques
Chromatography
28
Analysis of ink
29
Lab #10
Organic Analysis
Chapter 5
Analytical Techniques
Chromatography
Drugs
Chapter 9
Inorganic Analysis
Chapter 6
X-ray, ICP, AA
Exercise in Solution Chemistry
Nov
2
3
Analysis of drugs
4
5
Lab #11
Collecting and Submitting
Evidence
EXAM II
Chapter 2
Collecting and
Submitting Evidence
Legal Considerations
9
10
11
12
Lab #12
Forensic Toxicology
Chapter 10
Forensic Toxicology
Chapter 10
TBA
16
17
Forensic Toxicology
Chapter 10
18
24
25
19
Arson and Explosions
Chapter 11
Lab #13
TBA
23
26
Thanksgiving
Arson and Explosions
Chapter 11
30
Dec 1
Case Study Presentations
Thanksgiving
2
3
NO LAB
Lab #14
Case Study Presentations
TBA
7
8
Wrap-Up
Last Day
9
10
Reading
Day
Friday Dec 11
FINAL
3pm