Forensic Osteology MSc (Full-time, Part-time)

Course overview

Why study Forensic Osteology at BU?

• Exposure to a range of top experts from a broad variety of forensic fields
• Excellent laboratory facilities. You are given free access to two of the countries largest and best equipped human osteology labs
• Good balance between lecture based teaching and practical lab-based learning as well as a good range of forensic simulation exercises
• Provides you with the skills to go on to work in archaeology as well as in the forensic sphere, thus enhances employment prospects.

What will I study?

This forensic osteology course is concerned with the application of biological anthropological techniques to the analysis of human skeletal remains within a legal context and provides a vital suite of expertise and skills that can be applied to answer both modern and archaeological questions.

Specialist anthropological skills can contribute, not only to our understanding of the past, but also to the effective investigation of serious incidents in the modern world, particularly murder, genocide and human rights violations within the constraints of the criminal justice system. Such skills have also proved increasingly useful in recent years in the wake of mass disasters, both natural and man-made.