Bachelor's in Forensic Science (Biological Traces Concentration)

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.

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.