Your new best friend = Your advisor!
Your advisor based on your concentration and are the best resource for course information:
FMB: Prof. Podini, podini@gwu.edu
CSI: Prof. Robinson, erobinso@gwu.edu
CHEM: Dr. Rowe, wfrowe@gwu.edu
TOX: Dr. Lappas, ntl@gwu.edu
If this is your first semester in the program, make sure you see your advisor this semester to create your Plan of Studies. Keep a copy for your records before submitting it to the ForSci office. Blank POS sheets are available at the ForSci office.
Research Requirement Update 4/19/05
The research requirement of 1 - 3 credits for students entering in the fall of 2004 is waived. Circumstances beyond the department's control caused this requirement and other curriculum changes to not be published in the 2004-2005 Graduate Programs University Bulletin, as University rules require. However, the research will be a requirement for all students entering Fall 2005, as it will be effective in the 2005-2006 Bulletin. So, to reitirate, research credits will remain an elective and are encouraged for all students.
If you have any questions regarding your program/plan of study, please remember to address your advisor with such inquiries.
Course Information
If you wish to register for Medicolegal Death Investigation, FORS 257, or for Forensic Molecular Biology, FORS 271, you must get a registration transaction form filled out (and for 271, Professor Podini must sign it). Once the form is completed, have Professor Robinson sign it and then bring it to the Dean’s Office (PHIL107) for processing.
Registration transaction forms are available here:
http://www.gwu.edu/~regweb/
Summer 2007 Schedule of Classes Available here:
http://www.gwu.edu/~schedule/
The GWU Registrar's Office is here:
http://www.gwu.edu/~regweb/
Please be aware that changes are still being made, so the schedule is NOT FINAL!
Directions to Forensic Pathology class
The AFIP Annex is located 25 miles Northwest of the Washington metropolitan area in Rockville, Maryland.
Driving North on Interstate 270, exit at EXIT 6B.
Continue westbound on West Montgomery Avenue / Maryland Route 28 over I-270 to the 2nd traffic light.
Please email April if you plan to drive to class and wouldn't mind carpooling with your fellow students. It'll be less stress on you and your car, plus it's a chance to spend some quality time with your classmates!
Summer/Fall Registration: Check your account on the GWU Banner system. April cannot do anything about holds on your account, so check the system and talk to the registrar's office! Also, if a course requires department or instructor permission, you need to get a Registration Transaction (add/drop) form, fill it out, have it signed, and give it to April. (Make sure you sign it too!) It will go to CCAS and they will add your class.
Semester Specialties
The following courses are offered in the specified semester:
Fall: Terrorism, Instrumental Analysis, FORS Chem I, FORS Tox I
Spring: Interdisciplinary Aspects*, Child Abuse, Trace Analysis, FORS Chem I, FORS Tox I, Medicinal Chem
All other courses are generally offered both in the fall and the summer.
*Interdisciplinary Aspects will soon be renamed.
