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| Semester: | Fall 2024 |
| Number: | 0103-441-001 |
| Instructor: | Kristen Hartnett-Mccann |
| Days: | Tuesday Thursday 12:15 pm - 1:30 pm |
| Note: | Traditional In-Person Class |
| Location: | Garden City - Post Hall 107 |
| Credits: | 4 |
| Notes: |
37.5 Hours Of Lab Work Required |
| Course Materials: | View Text Books |
| Description: |
Students will learn the processes of recovering, documenting and evaluating biocultural evidentiary data from anthropological remains. Hands-on labs offer forensic training in human osteology, aging and biological sex assessments, inherited variability, occupational stress, palaeopathology and trauma impact. Archaeological/crime scene contexts/cultural materials are analyzed. Thirty-seven-and-a-half hours of laboratory/fieldwork are required. (Distribution Reqs:Natural Sciences) |
| Learning Goals: |
After successful completion of this course, students will have a thorough understanding of the following key issues in biology, physical anthropology, and criminalistics: 1. A thorough knowledge of the ontogeny, development, anatomy and variability of the human skeleton with a focus on Homo sapiens sapiens, although the ontogenic morphology of recently extinct hominds (such a Neanderthals) will also be considered. 2. Thorough understanding of hominid (with great emphasis on Homo sapiens) cranio-dental anatomy, morphologic variability and functional modification changes. 3. Thorough understanding of in situ recovery protocols and documentation processes, packaging and preservation of dry-cremated-mummified and soft tissued anthropologic materials, as well as the recovery and study of cultural materials/artifacts in relative contextual association analyses. 4. Thorough understanding of laboratory analyses of recovered and consolidated anthropological remains for the retrieval of forensic evidentiary data (includes domains of method/theory and applied techniques for inspectional macro/microscopic analyses, mensurational studies, archaeometric inorganic residual/elemental and organic materials’ analyses. 5. The ability to carry out all basic anthropological assessments of age and biological subgroupings. 6. The ability to evaluate forensic reports and to integrate research papers and relative reports from contributing subfields of forensic studies. *The learning goals displayed here are those for one section of this course as offered in a recent semester, and are provided for the purpose of information only. The exact learning goals for each course section in a specific semester will be stated on the syllabus distributed at the start of the semester, and may differ in wording and emphasis from those shown here. |
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