BS in Forensic Science

at Anna Maria College

Forensic science combines natural science and criminal justice.  Successful practitioners must have substantial technical expertise and knowledge, critical analytic and thinking abilities, superior communications skills, and an awareness of the scientist’s ethical responsibilities in the legal process. Anna Maria offers a Forensic Science Criminalistics track. The Forensic Science, Criminalistics track provides students with the basic and advanced sciences necessary to investigate, gather data, evidence, and begin processing a crime scene both at a beginner and advanced level.  

Graduates will have the basic skills required to serve as Crime Scene Technicians and Crime Scene Investigators.  They work alongside their crime lab colleagues providing the foundation and starting point for investigations.  They follow protocols for gathering evidence, taking pictures, recording measurements, and securing further investigative areas, including hair, blood, other bodily fluids; tool and tire marks; bullet flight path trajectory; and textile fibers from clothing and other materials.