Forensic Chemistry and Documentation

Code:

MCF13_16

Acronym:

MCF13_16

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Forensic Sciences

Instance: 2017/2018 - SP (of 11-09-2017 to 31-07-2018)

Active?	Yes
Responsible unit:	Public Health and Forensic Sciences, and Medical Education Department
Course/CS Responsible:	Forensic Sciences

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
MCF	13	Current Studies Plan	1	-	6	40	162

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

Upon completion of the unit students will know how: to identify treatment procedures for analytical results leading to the identification and quantification of the uncertainty and confidence; combine several techniques of chromatographic separation with the chemical characteristics of the analytes; identify procedures for spectrophotometric analysis.

Students will also be able to verify the accuracy or authorship of writing and detect changes or deletions in a document, among others.

Learning outcomes and competences

The unit’s contents, while not comprehensively addressing all of the complexity and magnitude of the problems inherent to forensic chemistry, address the main key points in order to create a broad understanding of the topic, while allowing students to develop capabilities to deepen their knowledge according to their intervening area. The contents were developed to raise the students’ sensitivity and critical judgment, thus promoting their problem solving ability.

Working method

Presencial

Program

1. Forensic Chemistry


2. Principles of Chemometrics


3. Principles of separation


4. Technical chromatographic separation and detection


5. Spectrophotometric techniques identification of quantification


6. Documentation


7. Analysis of documents

2. Analysis of writing

Mandatory literature

Algarra, M. et al.; Application of Nanochemistry to Forensic Science-Making Latent Figerprints Visible,Alumni Book of the Canon Foundation,Ed. M.R. Garcia,et al,Making Research Visible to the World

Teaching methods and learning activities

This unit aims to communicate specific knowledge about the issues at hand and apply this knowledge in a practical way, so that the theoretical and practical approach, sustained on real case work, seems more appropriate.

Evaluation Type

Evaluation with final exam

Assessment Components

Designation	Weight (%)
Exame	100,00
Total:	100,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

Designation	Time (hours)
Estudo autónomo	122,00
Frequência das aulas	40,00
Total:	162,00

Eligibility for exams

Obtaining a minimum grade of 9.5 values ​​and presence of at least 75% of the contact hours.

Calculation formula of final grade

100% = test score/written assignment.