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laugh-to-live
April 9th, 2010, 09:46 PM
I am interested in doing foresnics science but i don't know like how to get into it or like if there are places to go watch people doing it or if that is even possible. if anyone knows anything please help me.
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INFERNO
April 10th, 2010, 03:21 AM
At my university there's a pretty big forensic science program. There are many fields of it, I've done some forensic psychology but there's forensic computers, forensic biology, forensic anthropology, forensic chemistry (i.e. toxicology) and some others. As I said, the one I know the most of is forensic psychology and when I did it in third-year university, it was involved with the FBI and RCMP, as well as the professor himself. That sort of area, along with the others would be most likely either at police, research labs or forensic science labs and hospitals.

You'd need to wait until college or university to actually get into studying it. The forensic psychology you may not get into hands-on even when studying it because some of the FBI and RCMP people dealt with groups of people such as sex offenders and obviously undergrad. students cannot mingle with them.

Kaius
April 10th, 2010, 03:31 AM
It depends where you live, in the uk when you get into college it would be a good idea to take a psychology course. Then just look up the different universities that do the chosen course and see what grade they want for entry to that course. Forensics are a good way to go, a friend of mine and my girlfriend are interested in going into that area of work.

YesterdaysNews
April 10th, 2010, 09:09 AM
I'm planning on going into forensic sciences and psychology myself, and the university I hope to go to has a great program as well. Like inferno said, you really have to wait until university to take specific courses. But in high school you'll want to take biology, chemistry, other sciences like that and if your school has a psychology course, that'd be a good course to take. But it really depends on what your high school offers