Undergraduate & Graduate Credit Available
Undergraduate and Graduate Credit-
2 hours each through Saint Louis University as
Special Topics: Death Investigation
The course exposes the various forensic disciplines involved in a medicolegal death investigation and teaches an individual the tools and techniques necessary to perform a thorough, competent medicolegal death investigation. Proper instruction for disseminating this information is also covered. The course is designed to teach the 29 national guidelines as set forth in the National Institutes of Justice 199 publication, Death Investigation: A Guide for the Scene Investigator.
Lectures will be presented by forensic specialists on all major categories of deaths that occur in medicolegal jurisdictions with particular emphasis placed on the investigator’s role in the death investigation.
If interested in obtaining college credit for attending the course, you must:
• attend every lectures during the week
• take exam given on Friday at conclusion of the course
• graduate credit will include a 3-5 page paper in addition to the exam, due three weeks after the conclusion of the course
If you are interested in obtaining college credit, you must register with the University’s Registrar’s Office at https://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=dFpyZkVrVjVZd1JfUmxJYlNjNzRPZWc6MA. Contact 314-977-2269; or Julie Howe at howej@slu.edu or Barb Weekley at bweekley@slu.edu for questions.
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