BIOLOGICAL SPRING, 2012: (Please see the Master Schedule for times, days & location of the following courses.) ANTH 391D.001 / Special Topic: Medicine, Disease & Slavery Professor: Carlina de la Cova (3 credits) Cross listed with AFAM 398B Fulfills 3 hrs. of the 9 hr. Social Science Distribution Requirement OR Fulfills the Biological Requirement for the Anthropology Major Course Description: The goal of the course is to provide an interdisciplinary understanding of the health of enslaved African Americans during the nineteenth century by focusing on the conceptions, experiences, and dynamics of the relationship between slaves, medicine, healing, and their masters in the Antebellum American South.  Through readings, discussions, and lectures, emphasis will be placed on the following issues: the health and disease of enslaved African Americans, the imagined and experienced relationship between black health and white health, gender and its effects on health and medicine among enslaved African Americans, and the intersection of spiritual, naturalistic, and magical discourses with issues of slave health. ANTH 391F.001 / Special Topic: Forensics: Sherlock Holmes Professor: Carlina de la Cova (3 credits) Fulfills 3 hrs. of the 9 hr. Social Science Distribution Requirement OR Fulfills the Biological Requirement for the Anthropology Major Course Readings: Wagner, E. J. (2006) The Science of Sherlock Holmes: From Baskerville Hall to the Valley of Fear, the Real Forensics Behind the Great Detective’s Greatest Cases. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons. ISBN-13: 978-0471648796 Conan Doyle, Arthur (2002) The Complete Sherlock Holmes. New York: Bantam Books. ISBN-13: 9780553328257 Additional articles will be placed on Blackboard. Course Description: Doyle’s creation, Sherlock Holmes, has. His methods are rooted in the beginnings of   forensic science and some served as a stimulus to further scientific investigations. This course examines the forensic methods of Sherlock Holmes within the context of modern forensic science. Students will learn about the different aspects of forensic science including the discipline’s history, forensic pathology, entomology, print analyses, crime scene analysis, forensic anthropology, early scientific theory, and early anthropological theory through the lens of the Sherlock Holmes stories. Upon conclusion of the course, students will comprehend the forensic methods utilized by Sherlock Holmes and modern forensic scientists and how Sherlock Holmes impacted the development of on modern forensic science. Student Learning Outcomes:  Upon successful completion of this course students will be able to: Recognize forensic methods utilized by Sherlock Holmes and modern law enforcement and how these methods tie in with past and present criminal cases Define the importance of anthropology in early criminology and its continuing role in the modern forensic context Explain the development and usage of forensic techniques both in the past and in the present and how they have been popularized  and fictionalized in modern culture Interpret accounts of crime scene investigation used by Sherlock Holmes and Bones and how they  relate to modern forensic techniques Evaluate real forensic techniques and how they differ from those presented in fictionalized accounts of novels, television, and movie  Methods and Assignments: Class lecture and participatory discussion of assigned readings in fictional, academic, methodological, and forensic literature so that students are provided with a broad understanding of real forensic techniques and those in popular literature (outcomes 1, 2, 3, 4, 5) Class examples through lecture, PowerPoints and discussion of assigned case studies readings and hand-outs (outcomes 1, 2, 3, 4, 5) Student written or spoken assessments of published memoirs and case studies related to forensic anthropology and how these real accounts differ from shows such as Bones and CSI (outcomes 4, 5)