Courses

• GMS CI 792: Clinical Investigation Practicum
  The goal of the practicum experience is to provide the student hands-on exposure to clinical research. The student will work with a research mentor and will be actively involved in the development, execution, and evaluation of a clinical research project or project(s). During the practicum, it is expected that the student will be exposed to: clinical research planning, protocol preparation, interaction with Institutional Review Boards, regulatory requirements, selection of subjects/consent process, data collection, study monitoring, and data analysis. These various activities will most likely require involvement in more than one research project. 2 cr, Spring sem.
• GMS CI 793: Professionalism & Thesis Development
  The objective of this elective course is to (1) provide CI students with knowledge of and experience in professional standards, and (2) guidance in developing a thesis proposal and writing a masters level thesis. Topics will include professionalism & professional standards including professional communication, formal and scientific writing skills, guidance in developing a research topic, and writing a thesis proposal and thesis. The primary aim of this course is to help students adjust from an informal writing style to that required for scientific communication, presentations and theses. 2 cr, Summer I
• GMS CI 801: Thesis Research
  2 cr, Fall.
• GMS CI 802: Thesis Research
  2 cr, Spring.
• GMS FA 700: Professional Skills and Thesis Research Development for Forensic Anthropology
  This course is designed to provide students with knowledge and experience in professional skills, including writing skills, professional communication, requesting letter of recommendation, applying to PhD programs, interview skills, and reading and interpreting journal articles. In addition, considerable class time will be spent on developing a research topic and hypothesis, preparing a thesis proposal and in introduction to data collection, statistical analysis and the use of several instruments and tools commonly used by forensic anthropologists. 3 cr, Fall sem.
• GMS FA 701: Int Foren Anthr
  
• GMS FA 703: Zooarchaeology and Comparative Vertebrate Osteology
  This course will provide students with an advanced basis for vertebrate zooarchaeological analysis including terminology, data gathering, data analysis, and practical identification skills for both whole and fragmentary vertebrate remains. These skills will be of direct use in archaeology, paleontology, and forensic anthropology. 4 cr, Fall & Spring sem.
• GMS FA 704: Bioarchaeology
  This course examines how bioarchaeologists utilize skeletal data to reconstruct patterns of human behavior from diverse geographical and temporal contexts. This course will survey topics such as age and sex estimation, paleodemography, pathology, and trauma, levels of physical activity and evidence for habitual behavior, paleodietary analyses, identity, and ethics. The goal of this seminar is to ask what bioarchaeology is, understand how t has developed historically, and recognize how it contributes to our understanding of the past. 2 cr, Spring sem.
• GMS FA 705: Forensic Anthropology Techniques
  This course will provide students with a detailed history of forensic anthropology, including pioneers in the field, bone growth and development, and an extensive knowledge of protocols, methods, and procedures used by forensic anthropologists, to include distinguishing osseous from non-osseous material, distinguishing human from non-human remains, and estimating the biological profile. Students will be provided hands on experience in casework and will prepare several forensic anthropology case. 3 cr, Fall sem.
• GMS FA 706: Forensic Anthropological Procedures
  Prereq: Forensic Anthropology and Osteology. This course provides in-depth knowledge of the protocols, methods, and procedures used by forensic anthropologists and entomologists in the recovery of human skeletal material, identification of human skeletal remains and to identify and analysis of types of bone and soft tissue trauma and the stages and processes of human decomposition. In addition, students will have gained experience in the identification and classification, timing and nature of trauma to bones and the estimation of time since death. Prince Zinni. 3 cr, Fall sem.
• GMS FA 708: Homicide Invest
  
• GMS FA 709: Medicolegal Death Investigation
  This lecture based course will provide the student with an overview of the basic practices and principles of medioclegal death investigations. Specific lectures will cover the procedures and skills necessary to conduct a thorough medicolegal investigation of death, knowledge of various types of traumatic injuries, the knowledge necessary to understand the characteristics that differentiate the manners of death and the skills to conduct an appropriately directed investigation. The curriculum will prepare the students to take the national certification examinations offered by the American Board of Medicolegal Death Investigators. A general knowledge of anatomy is recommended prior to enrollment. Laposata. 2 cr
• GMS FA 710: Topics in Forensic Anthropology
  Prereq: consent of instructor. Students registered in this course will participate in weekly discussion sections based on peer-reviewed journal articles. At the completion of this course, students will have had the opportunity to gain knowledge and experience in analytical skills and critical evaluation of published research findings and projects. Students will also gain knowledge of current and past research in forensic anthropology. Pokines. 2 cr, Fall sem.
• GMS FA 711: Forensic Pathology
  This lecture based course will provide the student with an overview of the role of the medical examiner as it relates to death investigations. Specific lectures will cover autopsy procedures in the investigation of gunshot wounds, sharp and blunt trauma, drowning, asphyxia, child deaths, motor vehicle accidents and time since death determination. A general knowledge of anatomy is strongly suggested. 3 cr
• GMS FA 712: Human Anatomy and Osteology
  This course is designed to provide the student with an overview of basic human osteology with an emphasis on structure and function of various bones typically used by forensic anthropologists in human identification and in the investigation of traumatic and sudden deaths. At the completion of this course the student will be well versed in the anatomy, growth, landmarks and surface anatomy of all bone in the human skeleton. They will have completed hands-on experience with handling, measuring and identifying real human skeleton components. In addition, the methods of recovery and preservation of human skeletal remains will be practiced. 4 cr, Fall sem.
• GMS FA 714: Topics in Forensic Sciences: Human Identification
  Prereq: consent of instructor. This course will provide an overview of the procedures used by law enforcement and investigators used in criminal cases that involve a living or deceased victim. 2 cr, 2nd sem.
• GMS FA 716: Expert Witness Testimony for Forensic Anthropologists
  This course is in expert witness testimony of scientific evidence by forensic anthropologists. The purpose of this course is to give graduate students in the M.A. in Forensic Program an introduction to the United States criminal justice system, an overview of some of the unique challenges that scientific evidence present in the system and experience with providing expert witness testimony. 2 cr, Spring sem.
• GMS FA 718: Special Topics in Forensic Anthropology: Outdoor Crime Scene
  This course will provide students with an overview of physical evidence found at outdoor crime scenes of buried or scattered human remains. Focus will involve the recognition, documentation, and collection of physical evidence and the review of real cases in which human remains have been recovered and how physical evidence was used to help solve the crime. 3 cr, Fall & Spring sem.
• GMS FA 720: Forensic Anthropology Internship
  Students registered in this course will be expected to complete an approved internship in an anthropology or archaeology field school, forensic, or medicolegal setting. 2 cr, on demand.
• GMS FA 722: Anatomical Sciences for the Forensic Anthropologist
  Prereq: consent of the instructor. The central emphasis of this course will be on the gross morphological features of the human body with a modest treatment of function. Although forensic anthropologists typically deal with soft tissues post-mortem and/or skeltonized remains, this course will expose students to preserved tissues and the "normal" appearance of these tissues. Siwek, Moore. 4 cr, Fall sem.

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