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Lecturer(s)
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Course content
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Lectures: - What is forensic anthropology and who does it? History and rise of the discipline - Are the skeletal remains forensically significant? Human vs. non-human; recent vs. historic or prehistoric - Handling the remains in the field: from individual burials to mass graves and human rights. Lab methods. - Time since death estimates - Laboratory analysis: preparations, sorting, and basic description - Ancestry - Class exam 1 - Sex, age at death, stature - Trauma in forensic anthropology 1: cause and manner of death; antemortem, perimortem, and postmortem alterations - Trauma 2: projectile weapons, blunt force, sharp force, strangulation - Postmortem alterations: dismemberment, burning, scavengers, and other taphonomic processes - Positive identification in a medico-legal context: identification through ante/postmortem comparisons. Facial reconstruction and other methods of the last instance - Professional ethics and forensic anthropology in academia: past, present, and future - Class exam 2
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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Laboratory work, Self-study of literature, Lecture, Practicum
- Contact hours
- 52 hours per semester
- Preparation for comprehensive test (10-40)
- 40 hours per semester
- Presentation preparation (report) (1-10)
- 10 hours per semester
- Preparation for laboratory testing; outcome analysis (1-8)
- 8 hours per semester
- Preparation for an examination (30-60)
- 20 hours per semester
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| prerequisite |
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| Knowledge |
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| popsat a vysvětlit metody kosterní antropologie |
| popsat a vysvětlit základy lidské genetiky |
| popsat lidskou kosterní anatomii a metody terénní antropologie |
| Skills |
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| porozumět a interpretovat odborný text v českém jazyce |
| porozumět a interpretovat odborný text v anglickém jazyce |
| aplikovat metody terénní antropologie |
| learning outcomes |
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| Knowledge |
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| charakterizovat a podat stručný přehled historického vývoje disciplíny a technik, které forenzní antropologové používají pro odhad věku, pohlaví a fyzických charakteristik jedince z jeho kosterních pozůstatků |
| charakterizovat a popsat základy metod pozitivní identifikace, odhadu doby úmrtí a stanovení příčin a způsobu smrti |
| porozumět forenzní a kriminalistické odborné literatuře a praxi |
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| použít základní antropologické metody pro identifikaci biologického profilu neznámého jedince z jeho kosterních ostatků |
| teaching methods |
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| Lecture |
| Laboratory work |
| Self-study of literature |
| One-to-One tutorial |
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| Practicum |
| Self-study of literature |
| Individual study |
| One-to-One tutorial |
| Skills demonstration |
| Laboratory work |
| assessment methods |
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| Knowledge |
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| Written exam |
| Test |
| Continuous assessment |
| Skills |
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| Written exam |
| Test |
| Individual presentation at a seminar |
| Skills demonstration during practicum |
| Continuous assessment |
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Recommended literature
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Haglund, W. D. & Sorg, M. H. (Eds) (2002). Advances in Forensic Taphonomy. Washington, D.C. CRC Press.
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Iscan, M. Y. & Helmer, R. P. (eds.) (1993). Forensic Analysis of the Skull. New York. Wiley-Liss.
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Krogman, W. M. & Iscan, M. Y. The human skeleton in Forensic medicine. Springfield IL: Charles C. Thomas., 1986.
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Stloukal, M. (Ed.). Antropologie. Příručka pro studium kostry. Praha:Národní muzeum, 1999.
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Vorel, František. Soudní lékařství. Vyd. 1. Praha : Grada, 1999. ISBN 80-7169-728-1.
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