Forensics Minor

The Forensics interdisciplinary minor is a 16-credit minor designed for students who are interested in how physical and psychological evidence resolve issues involving criminal behavior, crime scenes and criminal investigations. This highly popular field spans across many disciplines, drawing from psychology, sociology, criminology, political science, chemistry, biology, and philosophy.
Students are required to take the Forensic Psychology course and an introductory Science course with a forensics component (4 credits). Students can then select the remaining 9 credits from a broad array of elective courses in multiple disciplines.
In order to fulfill the minor, students are required to take no more than 3 credits of their Elective courses in any single discipline.
Required Courses (7 credits)
- PSYC 3317 Psychology and the Law
- BIOL 1202 Molecules, Cells, and Genes (includes DNA analysis information and forensic science laboratory exercise)
OR
BIOL 1005 Current Topics in Biology (includes forensics component)
Elective Courses (9 credits)
Select 3 courses from the following courses, with no more than 3 credits within a single discipline
- PSYC 3005 Abnormal Psychology
- PSYC 3032 Physiological Psychology
- PSYC 3302 Human Development
- PSYC 3310 Social Psychology
- PSYC 3334 Psychopharmacology
- PSYC 4291 Schools of Psychology
- CMLGY 1306 Introduction to Crime and Criminology
- CMLGY 2300 Wrongful Convictions
- CMLGY 2307 Social Deviance
- CMLGY 2333 Criminal Law
- CMLGY 2360 Victimology
- CMLGY 2701 Penology
- CMLGY 3301 Women and Crime
- CMLGY 3308 Law and Society
- CMLGY 3309 Policy Analysis
- CMLGY 3310 Juvenile Delinquency
- SOCI 2318 Law and the Family
- SOCI 3327 Crime and the Media
- SOCI 3347 Sociology of Violence
- POLS 3304 Criminal Justice
- PHIL 1101 Introduction to Logic
- CHEM 1201 General Chemistry I
- CHEM 2221 Analytical Chemistry
- CHEM 3281 Biochemistry I
- BIOL 1205 Anatomy and Physiology I
- BIOL 1206 Anatomy and Physiology II
- BIOL 2003 Cell Biology
- BIOL 3009 Microbiology
- BIOL 3256 Genetics
- BIOL 3332 Immunology