Forensic Chemistry and Documentation
Keywords |
Classification |
Keyword |
OFICIAL |
Forensic Sciences |
Instance: 2021/2022 - SP (of 13-09-2021 to 15-07-2022)
Cycles of Study/Courses
Acronym |
No. of Students |
Study Plan |
Curricular Years |
Credits UCN |
Credits ECTS |
Contact hours |
Total Time |
MCF |
5 |
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
- Forensic Chemistry
- Principles of Chemometrics
- Principles of separation
- Technical chromatographic separation and detection
- Spectrophotometric techniques identification of quantification
- Documentation
- 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.