Program Overview

University Program Information

The university offers a range of programs and courses for students.

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• Accounting Sciences
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• College of Graduate Studies

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Program Details

Forensic Methods and Techniques - FOR1501

This module provides an overview of the field of forensic investigation, highlighting the interrelated principles and procedures of criminal investigation.

• Purpose: To provide an overview of forensic investigative terminology, basic principles, methods, techniques, and concepts.
• Module details:
  • Under Graduate Degree
  • Semester module
  • NQF level: 5
  • Credits: 12
  • Module presented in English
  • Module presented online
• Outcomes:
  • Demonstrate an understanding of the basic principles and procedures relating to the investigation of crimes, incidents, and transgressions.
  • Identify and analyse a situation as constituting a crime, incident, or transgression in order to determine the resources that must be activated and the procedures that must be followed.
• Principles:
  • Ubuntu
  • Social responsibility
  • Graduateness
  • Human rights
  • Humanizing the law
  • Africanisation