InkyLetters

Thank you all for being so helpful. I'm not minoring in chemistry because Calculus and I just don't mix, however I am planning on taking Chem 1 &2, possibly O chem (depends on how I do in chem 1/2 and if my GPA could handle it) bio 100, and Anatomy and Physiology in addition to some geology and GIS classes. I also have a psychology minor (at my school the departments overlap a ton so it was only like 2 extra classes). I'm currently completing field school (non-bioarchaeology, just historical) and I do the departments annual battlefield surveys. I've completed a few cultural anthro projects and presented those. This summer after field school I am completing an independent historical archaeology field project that I hope to present to a couple places to showcase that even though I'm not trained in bioarchaeology exactly, I am very good at field work in general. I'm looking in bioarchaeology field schools but the average cost of $5500 is a major hit so I'm not sure if that's feasible which is why I'm looking at short courses as they are less expensive and I could work between them to save the money. I am planning on going to the Phys Anthro conference in March this year, and possibly BARFAA as well. I'm reading a ton of journal articles and books to get abetter idea of what I like beyond "diseases and bones" and I hope to try to intern with a pathology lab since our school is a huge criminal justice school so we have good relationships with surrounding law enforcement agencies. I plan on speaking to the department professors in the fall about how I'd go about interning with them and if it's possible. DOes this sound like a good start? I go to a smaller school so I've just kinda hodgepodged the concentrations I know will benefit me since anthro/archaeology degrees aren't a huge amount of credit hours at my school.

Thanks for the response! After looking over my previous post I realized that I didn't articulate myself at all. Whoops. My primary interest is remains retrieval for military, disasters, or human rights violations (think mass graves). But as I'm researching POIs and more about the topic I'm finding myself VERY intrigued by the study of disease and epidemics with skeletal populations and plan on looking more into that- because you are right. The list of schools that do straight up forensic anthro total to less than 10 and are super competitive. I will look into Floridas field school. OSUs is too early for me since my university doesn't let out until mid may. I was considering "leading" the short courses that I was looking at with one of the very basic intro osteology courses they offer and then seeing if I could follow up with another later in the summer. Thanks again for the reply!

Hi all, I'm a little early to the party I know (I plan on graduating spring of 16) but I'm starting to look into various outlets and options. I'm looking to go to grad school in forensic anthropology and while we do have a biological anthro and anatomy classes at my school we don't have any osteology classes specifically so I was looking into taking something over the next couple summers, not even necessarily for credit to get my feet wet. I know mercyhurst has short courses but I wasn't sure if those would be appropriate for an undergrad or if there were other options available to me. Any suggestions would be great!