ProgramCIP 45.0205

Forensic Anthropology

A program that focuses on the application of the biological sciences and skeletal anthropology in medicolegal death investigations. Includes instruction in biological anthropology theory, crime scene investigation, forensic anthropology field methods, forensic anthropological techniques and procedures, human anatomy, methods of human identification, mortuary archaeology, osteology, and taphonomy.

Definition from U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics (CIP 2020).