Program Related Skills
Academic courses in this program provide opportunities to develop the following types of skills. Check out our My Career Centre webpage to learn how to articulate skills you’ve developed in your program to employers and/or academic admissions committees in our Skills from your Academics module (under our ‘Assess Yourself’ section). Make a career counselling or an employment strategy appointment to discuss how you can demonstrate these skills to employers.
- Attention to Detail: Work with precision during examination of crime scenes and lab results, which can also be useful during quality control, software testing, hypothesis testing and auditing.
- Collaboration / Teamwork: Work with others in interdisciplinary teams on projects and assignments to achieve mutual goal
- Communication: Write technical reports and/or verbally present examination or experimental findings in a clear, concise manner for different audiences.
- Critical Thinking / Problem Solving: Ability to systematically approach problems during experimentation and evidence analysis.
- Ethical Awareness: Understand the ethical implications of evidence handling and reporting, as well as the importance of professionalism within the field.