Investigation and Evidentiary Procedures
| Course Code | PFPR-228 |
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| Course Availability | Open |
| Description | This course is a continuation of the Police Powers/Criminal Code, Interviewing, and Crime Scene Management courses and is designed as a capstone course, which incorporates learning outcomes from various courses. Students will be challenged to apply facts and evidence through moot court exercises. Students during moot course exercises will be expected to adopt various roles involved in criminal trials such as defence attorneys, prosecutors, witnesses, police officers, court reporters and court clerks. Moot Court case selections will involve various criminal offences utilizing all aspects of the course learnings. Students will be listening to the twelve episodes of the Serial Podcast on their own time and completing three reflection reports on each week’s episode. Using podcasts like “Serial” addresses education requirements of improving students’ listening skills which is one of the essential components of education, and using audio as a learning tool can be an effective way to promote listening. Learning through listening has surprising educational advantages as well. Students can listen to content two-to-three grade levels higher than they can read. An unfamiliar word that might stop students’ on the page doesn’t compel them to tune out from a story told aloud. Also, students for whom English is a second language benefit from hearing spoken English and following along. |