'CSI' goes academic at Catholic high school in Pennsylvania

Published: 2005-10-20

FAIRLESS HILLS, Pa. (CNS) -- Instead of watching hours of criminal investigation programs at home, students enrolled in a new forensic science course at a coed Catholic high school in the Philadelphia Archdiocese will be immersed in solving simulated crimes at school. For the 2005-06 academic year, Conwell-Egan Catholic High School in Fairless Hills is offering an introduction to the world of criminal investigation made popular by television shows such as CBS' "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation." The course is based in problem solving. "When 'CSI' and all of that type of forensics TV shows came on, I got as excited as anybody," said Rita Tomlinson, who chairs Conwell-Egan's science department and teaches the new forensic science/bioethics course for juniors and seniors. "But, sometimes I would see that it wasn't (as) simple as the show makes it look," she told The Catholic Standard & Times, Philadelphia's archdiocesan newspaper.

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