Blog 22: Independent Component 2

LITERAL
(a) I Samantha Villanueva affirm that I completed my independent component which represents 34 hours of work.
(b) The source of my independent component was the National Institute of Justice, as well as a book called DNA Fingerprinting An Introduction by Lone T. Kirby that helped me understand all the heavy science stuff better. The authors of the course I took were Greg Mason, and John Mauro.
(c) LINK
(d) I completed a course  through The National Institute of Justice. The course comprises of four parts or modules including types of evidence, advanced crime scene methods, evidence collection, and CODIS. Each little module has about a million little different sub categories. For example the advanced crime scene module covers topics such as Conveyance Crime Scenes, Locating Evidence, Documentation, and some parts on DNA analysis.
(e)  I found this component to be significant, one because it was self paced, and it taught me a lot of self responsibility. It went more in depth than any article or any book I could have read, and the neat thing about this course through the National Institute of Justice is that it didn't just talk about Crime Scene Investigation or stuff I can just look up. It explained explicit protocols, and certain procedures, that I would not have known about otherwise. The course tracks where you are in the course and then once it register that you have actually gone through each lesson it produces a certificate of completion for you. Which I will show as my proof as well as some screenshots of the content i was learning. 

(f)This course goes over all of my answers for my EQ (Fingerprinting, Technology, and Photography) which helped me decide what my best answer would be. It talked about something that I have been having trouble finding research on , which is technologies impact on forensics and crime scene investigation. Before the interconnection between the two didn't seem like much and I worried that I would have to find a new answer. But this course helped me realize that these two are deeply woven, and practically essential to processes especially involving DNA analysis.