Przedmiot specjalizacyjny - Introduction to the Forensic Science

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The aim of the course is to make students familiar with the fundamental issues concerning forensic science including techniques and tactics – definitions, scope of interest, principles as well as legal and technical aspects. It is representing the continental approach to this science.

Since Faculty of Law has its own forensic lab it is possible to utilizes its equipment during lectures which gives the opportunity to learn some practical skills e.g. fingerprinting people, finding and securing fingerprints.

Profile of studies - general academic

Form of studies - extramural

Course type - specialization

Field and discipline of science - social sciences and legal sciences

Year of study / sem. - year V / sem. I.

Prerequisites - none

The number of teaching hours divided into forms of conducting classes - 12 hours of the seminar.

Didactic methods - seminar, consultations.

ECTS points - 4

Student workload balance - participation in classes 12 hours, preparation for classes and exam 50 hours, participation in consultations related to classes 36 hours, exam 2 hours. Total: 100 hours, corresponding to 4 ECTS credits

Quantitative indicators - student workload related to activities requiring the teacher's direct participation 50 hours, which corresponds to 2.0 ECTS points, and student workload that does not require direct teacher participation 50 hours, which corresponds to 2.0 ECTS points.

1. Kasprzak J., Młodziejowski B., Kasprzak W., Kryminalistyka, Zarys systemu, Difin, Warszawa 2015.

2. B. Hołyst, Kryminalistyka, LexisNexis, Warszawa 2010.

3. D. Wilk (red.), Kryminalistyka: przewodnik, TNOiK Dom Organizatora, Toruń 2013.

4. J. Konieczny (red.), Kryminalistyka, C.H.Beck, Warszawa 2012.

5. S. Kozdrowski, Krymianlistyka, wybrane zagadnienia, NWSP, Białystok 2012

6. W. J. Curran, E. D. Shapiro, Law, medicine, and forensic science, Little, Brown and Company, Boston-Toronto 1970.

7. A. Williams, Forensic Criminology, Routledge 2015

8. B. Madea (ed.), Handbook of Forensic Medicine, Wiley Blackwell 2014

Knowledge, graduate:

1. has in-depth knowledge of the principles and institutions of criminal, civil, administrative, constitutional law as well as judicial and administrative procedures - K_W03

2. knows and understands the terminology appropriate to specific disciplines of law - K_W08

Skills, graduate:

3. is able to correctly interpret and explain the meaning of specific legal norms and the mutual relations between these norms within specific areas of law - K_U01

4. is fluent in the Polish law system, uses the norms of individual areas of law to solve specific problems by themselves; depending on own interests (selected specialization subjects) has extended skills to solve complicated practical problems in specific fields of law - K_U05

Competences, graduate:

5. is able to independently and critically supplement knowledge and skills, extended by the interdisciplinary dimension - K_K06

Seminar: written essay / oral presentation