FORS at George Washington University

Intro sequences

The shortest canonical route from each entry point to a gateway course.

• 1. FORS 6010Bloodstain Pattern Analysis and Crime Scene Reconstruction
• 1. FORS 6207Photography in the Forensic Sciences
• 1. FORS 6210Advanced Instrumental Analysis
• 1. FORS 6215Latent Print Comparisons I.

Gateway courses

Each of these unlocks the largest share of downstream work on this map. Courses from other departments can appear here when they genuinely gate FORS coursework.

• FORS 6010Bloodstain Pattern Analysis and Crime Scene Reconstructionopens 1 course (1 directly)
• FORS 6207Photography in the Forensic Sciencesopens 1 course (1 directly)
• FORS 6210Advanced Instrumental Analysisopens 1 course (1 directly)
• FORS 6215Latent Print Comparisons I.opens 1 course (1 directly)
• FORS 6238Forensic Chemistry I.opens 1 course (1 directly)
• FORS 6241Forensic Molecular Biology I.opens 1 course (1 directly)

The map

Intro tiers at the top, advanced work below; arrows point from a prerequisite to the course it unlocks. Courses from other departments appear where they gate FORS work. Click any course to see what it requires and unlocks without leaving this page; hovering lights up its neighbors. The lists on this page carry the same courses in text form.

Showing the 16 FORS and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 24 more FORS courses have no recorded prerequisites. They are listed under Tracks below, not drawn as loose dots here.

Tracks

Upper-level clusters, grouped by the gateway that opens them.

The longest ladders

The deepest prerequisite chains in FORS. These are the routes that take the most semesters to climb.

• 2 courses deep, ending at FORS 6011

  1. FORS 6010Bloodstain Pattern Analysis and Crime Scene Reconstruction
  2. FORS 6011Bloodstain Pattern Analysis II.

• 2 courses deep, ending at FORS 6217

  1. FORS 6215Latent Print Comparisons I.
  2. FORS 6217Latent Print Comparisons II.

• 2 courses deep, ending at FORS 6219

  1. FORS 6207Photography in the Forensic Sciences
  2. FORS 6219Digital Image Processing

• 2 courses deep, ending at FORS 6236

  1. FORS 6210Advanced Instrumental Analysis
  2. FORS 6236Forensic Toxicology

Grade medians

Professors

No section schedule with instructor names for FORS yet.

Clubs & organizations

No clubs or organizations on record under FORS yet.

Clubs students here join

Department events

FORS does not run a page here yet. When it does, its events show up here and on the GWU campus feed.