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Classes will be held remotely for the remainder of the spring semester, and all official university events and student activities are suspended until further notice. While the Dayton and Lake campuses remain open, access to campus is restricted to personnel who have been identified as essential. Read more.

Forensic Studies

You can explore different facets of forensics through a variety of courses in this minor program you can add to your existing major. Study criminal investigation and criminal justice, science courses, and elective offerings that range from cyber crime to DNA profiling to forensic psychology.

Department: 
Sociology and Anthropology

What we offer

Forensic Studies Minor

Success Stories

Alumni Profile

Riveting affair

2003 Wright State alum Casey Simmons played key role in restoring the historic Memphis Belle Flying Fortress
Casey Simmons, who graduated from Wright State with a degree in anthropology, restores historic airplanes at the National Museum of the United States Air Force.
Alumni Profile

Flying Fishes

Wright State super alums establish legacy scholarship in the name of their sister
The four Fish sisters were highly involved in campus life as Wright State students in the 1970s.
Faculty Profile

Country conscious

Azadeh Jahanbegloo, senior lecturer at Wright State, says her native Iran has become an unfamiliar land
Azadeh Jahanbegloo, a senior lecturer of sociology, is now a U.S. citizen who calls America home, but never got to say goodbye to her past.