You can find out more about the program by contacting the program manager, at 931- 221-1477
Medicolegal Forensics
Austin Peay offers a 3000-level course in medico-legal forensics. This criminal justice course looks at the science behind solving crimes, such as identifying human remains. More advanced topics you'll look at are forensic anthropology, forensic odontology, radiology, serology, forensic DNA training, medical examiner work, wound ballistics and forensic trauma examination. This is a solid course to consider if you want to work as a coroner or medical examiner.
Belmont University
Belmont University's CSI Week
Belmont's Chemistry and Physics departments hold CSI week during February, when students gather and learn about the science and legal framework of forensic science. The dates change, so check with the school if you're interested in participating.
Carson-Newman College
Forensic Psychology
Carson-Newman offers a 300-level course in Forensic Psychology in the spring, during odd years. It's a general survey course, but you'll have to have already taken 6 hours in social sciences, or 3 hours of social science and junior standing, in order to enroll. But once you get in, you'll get a good survey of the field of forensic psychology, particularly the fields you can work in: criminalist, forensic social worker, even a forensic psychiatrist with onward training. The course covers general criminal behavior, including developmental, biological, personality, learning and social causes of criminality. You study kids in juvie and psychopaths both, so you'll have a full plate. Techniques of predicting crime based on psychological disposition are discussed, as are the correctional options that are available for psychotic, psychopathic or insane defendants.
Christian Brothers University
Forensic Anthropology
Christian Brothers offers a 100-level introductory course in the criminal justice department on Forensic Anthropology. This class is not fluff - it is intended for for science or applied psychology students, so you will have to have at least this background in basic familiarity with human biology to start. The only pre-requisite that's hard-and-fast, however, is Math 105 or higher. After you have that under your belt, the course will teach you how criminalists and police officers interpret skeletal remains and bones to determine sex, stature, age and ancestry. You'll also look at topics like blunt trauma, and learn to tell what kind of instrument caused that bone damage that lead to death. The course covers a number of cast studies of famous exhumations and bone fragment analyses performed over the years. This is definitely a course to consider if you want to pursue forensics down the line, either as a police officer, federal agent, crime scene investigator or forensic analyst.