CGS Online Learning
Fall 2008
We are offering 2 courses in the Fall 2008 term. The Fall term begins on September 3, 2008. Click here to view the CGS Calendar, which includes information about advance registration dates.
Please note that there is a $60.00 online course fee for all online courses.
Required live lectures meet Mondays 6:30pm-8:30pm
Instructor: Kris Rabberman
E-college $60 course fee
Crosslisted with: MLA 541 640
Have you ever noticed that scholars in different academic disciplines seem to speak different languages? Have you wondered how scholars put together a plan for their research, explain their findings, and organize and write their papers? This class is designed to introduce MLA students and other advanced students to the research and writing conventions used by scholars in the arts and sciences. With attention to disciplines in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences, we will identify and explore some of the theories, sources, language, and qualitative and quantitative methodologies that scholars use as they conduct original research in their fields. Throughout the class, we'll also discuss writing conventions across the arts and sciences, with special attention to the structure of argument; the use of evidence; voice and style in both traditional academic writing and more innovative forms of writing; and documentation conventions. Students will develop an original research project through incremental writing assignments, and will write a formal research proposal (15-20 pages), which can be used as their Capstone proposal if they wish.
Required live lectures meet Wednesdays 6:00pm-8:00pm
Instructor: Janet Monge
Crosslisted with: ANTH 633 601
This course will investigate and discuss the various techniques of analysis that biological anthropologists can apply to forensic cases. Topics include human osteology, the recovery of bodies, the analysis of life history, the reconstruction of causes of death, and various case studies where anthropologists have contributed significantly to solving forensic cases. Discussions will include the limitations of forensic anthropology and the application of DNA recovery to skeletal/mummified materials, the contribution of forensic anthropology to cases of genocide.
Textbook:
- Introduction to Forensic Anthropology, 3rd ed.
by Steven Byers ( 2007. Allyn and Bacon. ISBN: 978-0205512294