ADB753 - SPECIAL SUBJECTS IN FORENSIC CHEMISTRY
| Course Name | Code | Semester | Theory (hours/week) |
Application (hours/week) |
Credit | ECTS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SPECIAL SUBJECTS IN FORENSIC CHEMISTRY | ADB753 | Any Semester/Year | 3 | 2 | 3 | 9 |
| Prequisites | ||||||
| Course language | Turkish | |||||
| Course type | Elective | |||||
| Mode of Delivery | Face-to-Face | |||||
| Learning and teaching strategies | Lecture Discussion Question and Answer Preparing and/or Presenting Reports | |||||
| Instructor (s) | Prof. Dr. Nuray Öğün Şatıroğlu | |||||
| Course objective | Forensic chemistry is essentially a specialty area of analytical chemistry. Analytical methods and instrumentation chosen depend on the type of sample to be examined. This course includes, recent developments in chemical and instrumental analysis and various sample pretreatment. Also, applications of some analytical and instrumental techniques will be given in this course. | |||||
| Learning outcomes |
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| Course Content | The Scope of Forensic Chemistry. General information about the presumptive tests, screening tests and confirmatory tests. Classification of forensic evidence and sample preparation for analysis. Application of some presumptive tests, screening tests and confirmatory tests. Examining case studies and recent developments in Forensic Chemical Analysis | |||||
| References | 1- Forensic Chemistry, Suzanne Bell, Pearson Prentice Hall, New Jersey, 2006. 2- Forensic Chemistry, David E. Newton, Facts On File, Inc., New York, 2007. 3- Forensic Science, A.R.W. Jackson, J. M. Jackson, Pearson Prentice Hall, Edinburgh, 2004. 4- Principles of Instrumental Analysis, D.A. Skoog, F.J. Holler, T.A. Nieman, Saunders College Publishing, 1998. | |||||
Course outline weekly
| Weeks | Topics |
|---|---|
| Week 1 | The Scope of Forensic Chemistry |
| Week 2 | Chemical Tests; Importance of the presumptive tests and screening tests |
| Week 3 | Instrumental techniques; Confirmatory tests |
| Week 4 | Sample collection and storage |
| Week 5 | Classification of forensic evidence (Drugs, pesticides, volatile substances, arsenic, cyanide and trace elements) |
| Week 6 | Sample preparation for analysis (Drugs, Blood, urine, gunshot residue and unknown substances) |
| Week 7 | Application of some presumptive and screening tests for blood, drugs, poisons, arsenic and unknown substances |
| Week 8 | Mid-Term |
| Week 9 | Application of some confirmatory tests for drugs, poisons, alcohos (IR, Uv-Vis, GC) |
| Week 10 | Examining case studies |
| Week 11 | Recent developments in Forensic Chemical Analysis |
| Week 12 | Semester performance evaluation |
| Week 13 | Semester performance evaluation |
| Week 14 | Semester performance evaluation |
| Week 15 | Preportion for final exam |
| Week 16 | Final exam |
Assesment methods
| Course activities | Number | Percentage |
|---|---|---|
| Attendance | 0 | 0 |
| Laboratory | 0 | 0 |
| Application | 0 | 0 |
| Field activities | 0 | 0 |
| Specific practical training | 0 | 0 |
| Assignments | 0 | 0 |
| Presentation | 1 | 20 |
| Project | 0 | 0 |
| Seminar | 0 | 0 |
| Midterms | 1 | 30 |
| Final exam | 1 | 50 |
| Total | 100 | |
| Percentage of semester activities contributing grade succes | 0 | 50 |
| Percentage of final exam contributing grade succes | 0 | 50 |
| Total | 100 | |
WORKLOAD AND ECTS CALCULATION
| Activities | Number | Duration (hour) | Total Work Load |
|---|---|---|---|
| Course Duration (x14) | 14 | 3 | 42 |
| Laboratory | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Application | 14 | 2 | 28 |
| Specific practical training | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Field activities | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Study Hours Out of Class (Preliminary work, reinforcement, ect) | 14 | 10 | 140 |
| Presentation / Seminar Preparation | 1 | 14 | 14 |
| Project | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Homework assignment | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Midterms (Study duration) | 1 | 20 | 20 |
| Final Exam (Study duration) | 1 | 20 | 20 |
| Total Workload | 45 | 69 | 264 |
Matrix Of The Course Learning Outcomes Versus Program Outcomes
| D.9. Key Learning Outcomes | Contrubition level* | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | |
| 1. Based on the graduate level proficiency improves and deepens the actual and advanced knowledge with original thought and/or research in the level of specialty. | X | ||||
| 2. Comprehends interdisciplinary interaction related with his/her field; performs analysis and synthesis of the new and complex ideas and reaches the original results by using expert knowledge in assessment. | X | ||||
| 3. Evaluates and uses knowledge with systematic approach in his/her field; makes critical analysis, synthesis, and assessment of knowledge and transfer it. | X | ||||
| 4. Develops a new idea, method, design and/or application for innovation in his/her field or performs a known idea, method, design and/or application to a different field. Researches an original subject; comprehends, designs, adapts and implements them | X | ||||
| 5. Possesses the high level skills in using research methods in his/her field | X | ||||
| 6. Publishes at least one article related with his/her field in national or international academic journals. | X | ||||
| 7. Works in situation, which requires to solving original and interdisciplinary problems | X | ||||
| 8. Develops new ideas and methods related to his/her field using upper level intellectual processes such as innovative and critical thinking, solving problems and enacting. | X | ||||
| 9. Makes a scientific research at national or international academic groups | X | ||||
| 10. Contributes the solution of the social, scientific, cultural and ethical problems in his/her field and supports the improvement of these values | X | ||||
| 11. Presents the scientific and technologic progresses in his/her field, contributes the processes of being an information society where he/she lives and continuation of this. | X | ||||
*1 Lowest, 2 Low, 3 Average, 4 High, 5 Highest