#forenics

Quarantine study challenge - Week 1 (27/03/20)

Fri - what’s your favourite topic to study at the moment?

As I do a forensic psychology degree, I get to do a mixture of modules - my favourite atm is cognitive neuropsychology and report writing (as well as forensic psych too)✨

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One of my students wrote most of her Forensic Science midterm answers in rap form, and I’m thinking I want to surprise her with a list of contacts in the Communication, Arts & Technology faculty who are willing to video her UP for free, for their term keystone project. I mean: she formulated her responses and then converted them into rap on the fly, in the same space of time in which some people barely banged out point form answers.

Another one disclosed his rather serious medical status after getting a lower mark than he hoped due to a flareup on exam day - not as an excuse, but because he didn’t want me to think it was because I hadn’t taught him well. He promised to take the extra hour he’s entitled to for the final exam, anyway.

Another one politely but assertively challenged every one of the few deductions she received, arguing not only the meanings of her word choices but the need for more specificity and no ambiguity of language in questions used in short-answer exams. I said I’d happily work with her on alternative wording suggestions, and introduce her to the prof. (She’s heading for Law School.)

Another one, who never says a single word in class, absolutely smashed the midterm and has one of the tightest and most elegant argumentative essays in the works, on a wrongful conviction case. English is her third language, or maybe fourth. She simply doesn’t have time for idioms or lazy language habits, but gets right to the core idea.

The forensic science’s work area is divided into three parts of chemistry, biology and drugs and toxicology. If a person works in chemistry section, he deals with crimes against property like burglary and arson. If a person works in biology section, he deals with crimes against people like hijack and murder. In this case, he looks for DNA sample, blood, hair, fingerprints and clothing fibres. If a person works in drugs and toxicology section, he examines analysis of blood and urine samples for alcohol, drugs and poison. An average annual salary is about $20000 to $45000 depending on the experience level. Most of the time you work according to your office hours. But you have to prepare yourself to work at any time they call you.

Soil microbes that feast on dead things and can be used as a forensic death clock – what’s not to love.

Especially quotes like this: