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Undergraduate Studies
The Applied Forensic Sciences Department at Mercyhurst College was created in 2002 in an effort to provide students with a solid undergraduate education in the general sciences, with forensic science being the focus. Students graduating with a degree in Applied Forensic Sciences will be able to pursue a variety of career options from graduate school in the sciences (e.g., biology, chemistry, anthropology) to specific training programs in the field of forensic science and investigations.
The strength of our program will continue to reside in the Forensic Anthropology concentration, which arose out of the Anthropology Department. This concentration focuses on the recognition and documentation of physical evidence at the outdoor crime scene and the analysis of human skeletal remains recovered from those contexts. These methods prove useful whether the crime scene involves a surface scatter of human remains, a buried body feature, a fatal fire site or a large-scale mass fatality incident.
Required Core Courses
(12 Courses, 37 Credits)
Bio 140/141 Cell Biology & Lab
Bio 144/145 Ecology & Evolutionary Biology & Lab
Bio 148/149 Organismal Biology & Lab
Bio 310/311 Genetics & Lab
Chem 121/122 General Chemistry I & Lab
Chem 222/223 General Chemistry II & Lab
Phys 201/203 General Physics I & Lab
Geol 100/102 Physical Geology & Lab
Frsc 150 Introduction to the Forensic Sciences
Frsc 310 Statistics for Forensic Science & Anthropology
Math 109 Statistics
Math 170 Calculus I
In addition to these core classes, students select one of four concentrations and must successfully complete the courses specific to that concentration.