University of Quebec Trois Rivieres: The University of Quebec Trois Rivieres (UQTR), located in Trois-Rivieres, Canada, is a multidisciplinary institution known for its quality education and research. UQTR offers a wide range of programs in arts, sciences, business, health, and engineering. The university emphasizes practical training, research collaborations, and community engagement to enhance the learning experience and contribute to regional development.

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The bachelor's degree in forensic science, unique in Quebec, allows the student to master the tools and methods implemented during the detection, analysis and interpretation of chemical, physical, biological and digital traces for the purposes of investigation and scientific expertise. Forensic science intervenes in support of the activities of the police, justice, and the security of persons and property for the purpose of associating perpetrators with a criminal or litigious act by means of the traces, vestiges or residues of their presence or activity by quantifying the weight of evidence. It also participates in the development of criminal and security intelligence in support of police operations (links between cases, identification of new threats and new criminal operating methods). She is involved in expertise both within government organizations responsible for applying laws and regulations and in the security industry. Finally, its field of action is diversifying to allow other areas, such as health, food or the environment, to benefit from the information provided by material traces. Program Objectives Through the acquisition of knowledge, skills and know-how relevant to all the traces of interest to the forensic scientist, the program aims to learn the concepts and modes of reasoning that prevail in forensic science, as well as the entire process that characterizes its approach, namely the search, detection, collection, analysis, comparison and interpretation of traces of all types (biological, chemical, physical and digital). The student is also expected to become familiar with the issues of justice and security and the broader environment in which forensic science is deployed, ie. criminology, police and judicial organizations, law, the security industry. The program trains the student in the fundamental areas and scientific procedures that are implemented by forensic science. The bachelor's degree in forensic science allows him more particularly to develop disciplinary and transversal skills of primary importance in his scientific and professional practice: sense of observation and attention to detail; capacity for rigorous scientific analysis of material evidence, interpretation of data taking into account contentious contexts; ability to assess the strength of evidence using statistical tools and probabilistic inference; ability to synthesize information, gauge assumptions, judge objectively and impartially; ability to exercise a keen sense of ethics and intellectual rigor; be concerned with ensuring the quality and safety of analysis operations; ability to popularize complex knowledge and to answer questions in the context of a legal debate. Show less

Compulsory courses (51 credits)

The student must take the following courses (51 credits):

CAN1001 Introduction to Analytical Chemistry
CAN1004 Introduction to experimental analytical chemistry
COR1001 Basic organic chemistry
COR1002 Reactions and Mechanisms in Organic Chemistry
SFC1001 Forensic sciences and criminalistics
SFC1005 Probability applied to forensics
SFC1015 Law and Evidence I
SFC1018 Methodology and forensic intelligence
SFC1020 Investigation on the spot and exploitation of traces
SFC1024 Forensic biology
SFC1025 human traces
SFC1026 Microscopy
SFC1028 Scientific photography
SFC1029 Identifying objects
SFC1030 Digital traces
SFC1031 Document analysis
SFC1032 Criminology

Optional courses (42 credits)

The student chooses three credits among the following (3 credits):

SFC1014 Final project and seminar
SFC1042 Forensic Science Internship

The student must take the following courses (39 credits):

ABI1001 Bioinformatics, proteomics and genomics
ANI1030 Forensic anatomy
BCM1001 Biochemistry I
BCM1002 Biochemistry II
BIM1002 Molecular biology
CPH1016 State of matter: gas, liquid and solid
MCB1017 General microbiology
PSL1004 Human Physiology I
SFC1023 Forensic genetics
SFC1033 Genetic
SFC1035 Forensic anthropology
SFC1036 Forensic fauna and flora
STT1040 Chemical data processing

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You will need to book the accommodation after you have been accepted.

You can choose to live on campus or off campus in private accommodation.

How to book:

• Make a booking online after you have been accepted (in this case please let us know your choice when you apply).
• Register when you arrive - its not possible to reserve a room before arriving. You can arrive a few days before and book it

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