Medicolegal Death Investigation Certificate (No longer admitting students as of Fall 2024)

Contact:

Deepika Das, ddas06@syr.edu, 315-443-1036
Assistant Teaching Professor, Director of Curricular Programs for the Forensic and National Security Sciences Institute at Syracuse University

Faculty:

Kathleen Corrado, James Crill, Deepika Das, Brian Ehret, James Hewett, Michael Marciano, Natalie Novotna, Maria Pettolina, Robert Silver, James T. Spencer, Michael B. Sponsler, Robert Stoppacher

Program Description: Note this certificate is no longer accepting new students beginning the fall of 2024 or later.

The Certificate in Medicolegal Death Investigation is a 12-credit program intended primarily for students who have a career interest in death investigation. The Certificate serves as an indication that the student has had a concentration of courses in this field and is ready to embark on this career path.

Student Learning Outcomes

1. Define the field of forensic science and describe how it overlaps with their particular interests

2. Describe the relationship and interplay between forensic science and the legal system

3. Appreciate the importance of ethical standards and describe the means through which such standards are upheld in forensic science

4. Demonstrate how crime scenes are processed, how chain of custody is preserved and documented, and how medicolegal death investigators and crime scene investigators work together

5. Explain the duties of a medicolegal death investigator

Requirements

I. Required Courses - 6 Credits Required

II. Electives - 6 Credits Required

FSC 332 - Intro to Forensic Anthropology
FSC 434 - Anatomy & Physiology for Forensic Medicine
FSC 453 - Forensic Toxicology
FSC 463 - Bloodstain Pattern Analysis
FSC 467 - Forensic Photography
FSC 468 - Crime Scene Investigation
FSC 470 - Experience Credit (Internship in a medical examiner’s office, related to forensic pathology and/or medicolegal death investigation)
ANT 433 - Human Osteology

Transfer Credit

Maximum of 3 credits

Part-time Study

May be pursued

Degree

Certificate in Medicolegal Death Investigation