Anthropology -Graduate (ANG)

This course provides an intensive and comprehensive understanding of the human skeleton, emphasizing the identification of complete and fragmentary skeletal remains from forensic and archaeological contexts.

This course teaches students about how forensic anthropologists help to resolve modern and historic crimes both in the laboratory and in the field. Students learn techniques that forensic anthropologists use to recover and identify individuals who died because of war, suicide, homicide, accident, or mass disaster. Specifically, class lectures, assigned readings, writing assignments, films, fieldwork, and group projects enhance these students� understanding of forensic anthropology.

Student will participate in an independent directed course of study in a specialized area of interest, as determined with the approval of the faculty member. Variable credits, from 1 to a maximum of 6 may be available. Requires faculty approval prior to registration.