Course Description
This course is the WORST I have taken among the six in two years, and possibly one of the worse ones among other courses.It will require students to investigate a real case using some 20-30 police reports and develop an exhaustive case file with legal proceedings. The lecturer, an experienced professional in forensic pathology, will kindly mention many interesting facts surrounding forensics but besides that, I think it is unfair to expect inexperienced students to solve a full case from scratch, which is hard even for professional investigators.
The course aims to introduce the science of experimentation: applying evidence to hypotheses and making deductions. Unfortunately there is little learning which reinforces that. Students will instead, right at the beginning, be required to pour over a complex set of statistical noise, logical contradictions and generally overwhelming information. Unlike another forensic science course which explores the laboratory setting and features interactive experiments, this course is rarely about forensic science at all, not what many think to be "cool" crime scene investigation. This course all boils down to hard paper work and abstract thinking.
Because of the title of this course, many students have enrolled in it out of curiosity, but as people always say, curiosity kills the cat.
HKU
CCST9010 The Science of Crime Investigation