ANTH 4355 - Forensic Anthropology

Three credit hours.

Forensic anthropology applied knowledge of human variation to legal matters. The primary emphasis in this course will be human skeletal variation. The theoretical basis of sex determination, age estimation, and ethnic origin classification based on skeletal characteristics will be examined. Other issues such as fire death scene investigation, interval since death, and forensic archaeology also will be addressed. Dual listed in the Graduate Catalog as ANTH 5355. This course will be offered once a year.

Prerequisites: ANTH 1415 or consent of instructor.