COLEGIO de KIDAPAWAN

Quezon Boulevard, Kidapawan City

CRIMINOLOGY DEPARTMENT

INSTITUTION MISSION:
1. Instill Love of God and People.
2. Produce Competent Graduates on Baccalaureate and Technical Programs.
3. Exercise leadership in the pursuit of peace and integral development for social transformation.
4. Understand and respect diversity of culture while promoting national patriotism.
5. Develop awareness and concern for Mother Earth.
PROGRAM MISSION:
To produce professionally competent and morally upright Graduates who can deliver effective service in Crime Prevention, Crime detection, Investigation
Law Enforcement, Custody and Rehabilitation of Law Offender.
PROGRAM OUTCOMES:
CRIMINAL JUSTICE EDUCATION
COURSE/ DEGREE OUTCOMES:
Bachelor of Science in Criminology
TITLE OF SUBJECT:
FORENSIC BALLISTICS
SUBJECT OUTCOMES:
This course involves a scientific study of firearm identification with the use of laboratory examination. The subject gives emphasis on the study of
ammunitions, projectiles, gunpowder, primer and explosives, including the use of the bullet comparison microscope. It also deals with the principles in the
microscopic and macroscopic examination of firearm evidences and the preparation of reports for legal proceedings in the solution of cases involving fire arms.

COURSE DESIGN:
Desired Learning
Outcomes (DLO)
Students must be
able to:
Identify
Understand
Demonstrate
Describe
Illustrate
Familiarize
Determine

Learning Content/ Subject

Matter

Books and Other

References

I. Introduction
Definition of terms
Origin of Ballistics
Branches of Ballistics
-Interior/Internal Ballistic
- Exterior/External Ballistic
- Terminal Ballistic
- Forensic Ballistic

Forensic Ballistics - Third

Edition(Del Rosario) p. 1-2

II. Firearms
Origin
Definition
- Legal Definition
- Technical Definition
Classification
- According to gun barrel
- According to loading
mechanism
- According to ammunition
- According to use
- Miscellaneous Firearms

Forensic Ballistics - Third

Edition(Del Rosario) p.6-27

Forensic Ballistics - Second

Edition (Grimares) p. 1-4

Forensic Ballistics - Second

Edition (Grimares) p. 5-22

Teaching
Delivery
1. Lecture/
Discussion
2. Research
Work
3. Illustration

Assessment
(achieve Learning)
1. Quiz
2. Recitation
3. Periodical
Examination
4. Group report

Resource
Materials

Time
Table

Number
of
Hours

4 weeks

12 hours
Lecture
8 hours
Lab

1. Actual
Demonstration
2. Media
Presentation
3. Movie
Clippings
4.White Board
Marker
5.Hand outs

Identify
Understand
Demonstrate
Describe
Illustrate
Familiarize
Determine

Identify
Understand
Demonstrate
Describe
Illustrate
Familiarize
Determine

III. Ammunition and Different

types of Bullets
- Definition
- Origin and History
- Parts of Ammunitions
- Classification of Cartridges

Forensic Ballistics - Third

Edition(Del Rosario) p.30 - 34

IV. Cartridge Case

- Definition and Origin
- Functions of cartridge case
- Parts of a cartridge case
- Classification of Cartridge
cases

Forensic Ballistics - Third

Edition(Del Rosario)p. 47-50

V. Primers
- Definition and Origin
- Parts of primer
- Different types of Primer

VI. Gunpowder
- Definition
- Classification of gun powders
- Composition of gun powders

Forensic Ballistics - Second

Edition (Grimares) p. 25 - 32

1. Lecture/
Discussion
2. Research
Work
3. Illustration

1. Quiz
2. Recitation
3. Periodical
Examination
4. Assignments

1. Actual
Demonstration
2. Media
Presentation
3. Movie
Clippings
4.White Board
Marker
5.Hand outs

2 weeks

6 hours
Lecture
4 hours
Lab

2 weeks

6 hours
Lecture
4 Hours
Lab

Forensic Ballistics - Second

Edition (Grimares) p. 25 - 32

Forensic Ballistics - Third

Edition(Del Rosario) p. 53-54
Forensic Ballistics - Second
Edition (Grimares) p. 35

Forensic Ballistics - Third

Edition(Del Rosario) p. 57
Forensic Ballistics - Second
Edition (Grimares) p. 36

1. Lecture/
Discussion
2. Research
Work
3. Illustration

1. Quiz
2. Recitation
3. Periodical
Examination
4. Assignments

1. Actual
Demonstration
2. Media
Presentation
3. Movie
Clippings
4.White Board
Marker
5.Hand outs

Classify
Define
Recognize
Understand
Familiarize
Explain
Demonstrate

VII. Arms Manufacturing Related

to Firearms Identification
- How the barrel is made
- Forensic firearm identification
- Marks found on fired bullets
- Marks found on fired shells
- Tool marks Identification
- Class characteristics
Individual Characteristics

Forensic Ballistics - Third

Edition(Del Rosario) p. 61-78
Forensic Ballistics - Second
Edition (Grimares) p. 42-46
p.88-89

1. Lecture/
Discussion
2. Research
Work
3. Illustration

1. Quiz
2. Recitation
3. Periodical
Examination
4. Assignments

1. Actual
Demonstration
2. Media
Presentation
3. Movie
Clippings
4.White Board
Marker
5.Hand outs
4 weeks

VIII. Crime Scene Search for

Ballistic Exhibit
- General Search
- Methods of Searching
- Procedure at the Scene of the
Shooting

Forensic Ballistics - Third

Edition(Del Rosario) p. 85-86
Forensic Ballistics - Second
Edition (Grimares) p.70

12 hours
Lecture
8 hours
Lab

Identify
Understand
Demonstrate
Describe
Illustrate
Familiarize
Determine

IX. Recognition, Collection,

Marking and Preservation of
Physical Evidence
Introduction of Evidence
Recognition of Physical
evidence
Collection of Physical
evidence
Marking of Physical evidence
Preservation of Physical
evidence
Transmittal of Physical
evidence

Forensic Ballistics - Second

Edition (Grimares) p. 74

X. Scientific Equipment Used in

Firearms Identification and
Investigation

Forensic Ballistics - Third

Edition(Del Rosario) p. 107

Identify
Understand
Demonstrate
Describe
Illustrate
Familiarize
Determine

Forensic Ballistics - Third

Edition(Del Rosario) p. 90105

- Bullet Comparison Microscope

- Stereoscopic Microscope
- Shadowgraph
- CP-6 Comparison Projector
- Bullet Recovery box

1. Lecture/
Discussion
2. Research
Work
3. Illustration

1. Quiz
2. Recitation
3. Periodical
Examination
4. Assignments

1. Actual
Demonstration
2. Media
Presentation
3. Movie
Clippings
4.White Board
Marker
5.Hand outs
2 weeks

Forensic Ballistics - Second

Edition (Grimares) p. 83-85

1. Lecture/
Discussion
2. Research
Work
3. Illustration

1. Quiz
2. Recitation
3. Periodical
Examination
4. Assignments

1. Actual
Demonstration
2. Media
Presentation
3. Movie
Clippings
4.White Board
Marker
5.Hand outs

2 weeks

6 hours
Lecture
4 hours
Lab

6 hours
Lecture
4 hours
Lab

Identify
Understand
Demonstrate
Describe
Illustrate
Familiarize
Determine

XI. Ballistic Report Writing

-

Preparation of Report

Mechanics of a Good Report

Forensic Ballistics - Third

Edition(Del Rosario) p. 116119
Forensic Ballistics - Second
Edition (Grimares) p. 90

1. Lecture/
Discussion
2. Research
Work
3. Illustration

1. Quiz
2. Recitation
3. Periodical
Examination
4. Assignments

1. Actual
Demonstration
2. Media
Presentation
3. Movie
Clippings
4.White Board
Marker
5.Hand outs
2 weeks

Prepared by:
Jan Dominic Nava RCrim., CSP
Criminology Instructor

6 hours
Lecture
4 hours
Lab