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MSc PG Dip Forensic Archaeology and Anthropology

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    Full-time: 11 months (MSc), one year (PgDip); Part-time: up to three years (MSc) or two years (PgDip)

Masters Degree Description

The Forensic Archaeology and Anthropology MSc at Cranfield Forensic Institute is taught by world-leading experts and involves a hands-on practical teaching style with interesting and thought-provoking lectures from our staff and guest speakers.

You will have the opportunity at getting your hands dirty with practical archaeological excavations, looking at the science and exploring simulated mass grave sites and using a plethora of practical and theory based techniques to understand and analyse the world as we find it.

The course offers students a wide range of different experiences with unique facilities available to no other university in the UK. The course is highly practical and hands-on, aiming to produce forensic scientists with a strong background in archaeology and physical anthropology which will help them with their future careers and eventually give them the skills to become experts in these fields.

We find that our students come from a wide range of backgrounds, usually with an archaeological, biological, medical or forensic science first degree, with many coming from abroad, especially African, European and North American countries.

Entry Requirements

We welcome applications from talented individuals of all backgrounds and each application is considered on its individual merit. Usually applicants must hold:

A UK lower second-class (2:2) undergraduate degree with honours, as a minimum, or equivalent international qualification.

Ideally applicants will have studied in archaeology, forensic science or a scientific discipline.

Applications from candidates with relevant work experience in combination with a degree that does not meet the minimum entry requirement will be considered.

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Fees

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Programme Funding

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Student Destinations

Prepares you to work in the field of forensic archaeology or anthropology within forensic laboratories, police departments, government bodies, non-governmental organisations, museums, commercial archaeological companies and universities. It is also a necessary introduction that could lead into conducting research at PhD level in the subject.

Module Details

Compulsory modules

All the modules in the following list need to be taken as part of this course.

  • Introductory Studies
  • Investigation and Evidence Collection
  • Reasoning for Forensic Science
  • Analytical Techniques
  • Courtroom Skills
  • Forensic Archaeology: Recovering Buried Remains
  • Forensic Archaeology: Mass Grave Excavation
  • Fundamentals of Forensic Anthropology: Osteology
  • Further Forensic Anthropology: Identification
  • Thesis Research Project

Elective modules

One of modules from the following list need to be taken as part of this course

  • Trace Evidence
  • Introduction to Firearms Investigations and Forensic Ballistics
  • Practical Archaeological Excavation
  • Mass Fatality Incidents
  • Forensic Ecology
  • Radiographic Investigations in Forensic Science
  • Hazardous Forensics
  • Forensic Exploitation and Intelligence
  • Trauma Weapon Effects
  • Fundamentals of Fire Investigation
  • Digital Scene Forensics
  • DNA
  • Bloodstain Pattern Analysis
  • Temporary Mortuary Operations
  • Forensic Imaging
  • Field Methods in Heritage Crime Investigation
  • Investigating Threats to Cultural Heritage

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