This is a discipline that has made significant contributions to the resolution of medico-legal issues domestically and internationally. Students will become acquainted with a range of theories and techniques used to identify skeletonised human remains; have an appreciation and understanding of a wide range of factors modifying a body and a crime scene over time; and have a set of skills necessary, and appropriate in terms of the requirements of the Australian medico-legal professions, for the practical management and excavation of a body/crime scene. Numerous 'real-life' case-studies illustrate the theory and ideas presented in this course.

(1) meet the stipulated course aims

(2) become familiar and comfortable with a broad sample of scholarship in this disciplinary area

(3) augment the student's the ability to think critically about basic assumptions and conceptual frameworks in this field

(4) develop skills in oral presentations, including debate, and in writing

Forensic excavation/crime scene management report (50%), essay and literature based research (50%).

2 hours of lectures and one hour of laboratory each week (may be in block form).

Any ARCH, BIAN or BIOL course valued at 6 units or more.