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2022-2023 Undergraduate and Graduate Catalog 
    
2022-2023 Undergraduate and Graduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

CRJU 643 - Forensic Pathology and the Medical-Legal Investigation of Death


(3 units)

Prerequisite: Open to Criminology & Criminal Justice master’s students only or graduate advisor permission.
A multimedia examination of the medico-legal investigation of death. Focuses on thanatology and thanato-etiology of unexpected natural deaths, accidental deaths, suicides, and homicides. Special attention to deaths by gunshot wound, sharp force injury, blunt force trauma, asphyxiation, and electrocution.

Letter grade only (A-F). Field trips may be required.