Taken Spring 2010
Instructor: Mitch Rector
Advanced Conventional Criminalistics focuses on firearm examination, bullet analysis, and toolmark examination using a variety of methods. You will learn about the difference in calibers of bullets (as well as the guns that fired them), how to examine a bullet microscopically, how to determine the distance a bullet was fired before hitting its target, and how to compare toolmarks. There are many others, but these are the labs/lectures that I remember most. The labs take a fair amount of time, but definitely help learning the lecture material.
As you may know from JS 671, Mitch Rector is very detailed and extremely knowledgeable of his field, yet a "laid-back" instructor. I enjoy his classes. However, my one complaint about the class is that it is very hard to learn about guns when you are unable to have hands-on education. As someone who has never fired a gun, I had a hard time describing how they worked on tests (as you would see with the big, red "NO" written across my answers). Obviously, Mitch could not bring in guns to show us in class or take us to the firing range, but he did show videos and pictures of firearms.
Overall, I would recommend this class to other students, especially if you are thinking about toolmarks and firearms as a career path.
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