AN 365 - Forensic Anthropology

Offered Fall: Odd Years Offered Winter: No Offered Summer: No Offered Other: No

4 Credits
Hours (Lecture - Discussion - Lab): 2-0-4
Prerequisites: AN 110 or AN 200 or BI 104 or BI 213 or CJ 110.

This course introduces students interested in Forensic Anthropology to the history of the discipline as well as topics like death investigation, skeletal anatomy, forensic taphonomy, and the methods used by forensic anthropologists to analyze the human skeleton. The course has both lecture and lab components. Most of the laboratory exercises will take place indoors, but there may be outdoor aspects (weather permitting).