BYL676 - CRIMINAL ENTOMOLOGY
| Course Name | Code | Semester | Theory (hours/week) |
Application (hours/week) |
Credit | ECTS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CRIMINAL ENTOMOLOGY | BYL676 | 2nd Semester | 2 | 3 | 3 | 9 |
| Prequisites | - | |||||
| Course language | Turkish | |||||
| Course type | Elective | |||||
| Mode of Delivery | Face-to-Face | |||||
| Learning and teaching strategies | Lecture Discussion Question and Answer Demonstration Drill and Practice Case Study | |||||
| Instructor (s) | Prof. D. Osman Sert | |||||
| Course objective | Criminal entomology which uses insects and other arthropods in forensic investigations. It could be defined as using entomological evidence to clarify deaths occured by intentional murder, insect attacks, unexplained sudden deaths, use of drugs or poision. In this course is aimed to thought what sort of contributions can provided using insect evidence to solve suspicious death cases. | |||||
| Learning outcomes |
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| Course Content | Collecting insects from corpses, identifications, rearing in laboratory conditions, determining the insect succession on corpses and its relationship with post-mortem interval determination, the effects of drugs and chemical substances on insect development will be examined. | |||||
| References | Amendt, J.; Goff, M.L.; Campobasso, C.P.; Grassberger, M. (Eds.). 2010. Current Concepts In Forensic Entomology. Springer Dordrecht Heidelberg London New York. 377 pp. Byrd, J. H., and J. L. Castner. 2009. Forensic Entomology: The Utility of Arthropods in Legal Investigations. CRC Press, Boca Raton. Gennard, D.E. 2007. Forensic Entomology: An Introduction. Wiley West Sussex. 221 pp. Greenberg, B., and J. C. Kunich. 2002. Entomology and the Law: Flies as Forensic Indicators. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. 306 pp. | |||||
Course outline weekly
| Weeks | Topics |
|---|---|
| Week 1 | General knowledge about criminal entomology (T) Equipments used in criminal entomology (P) |
| Week 2 | Forensically important insects (T) Insects and their morphology used in criminal entomology (P) |
| Week 3 | Forensically important insects (T) Flies used in criminal entomology (P) |
| Week 4 | Collecting entomological evidence (T) Flies used in criminal entomology (P) |
| Week 5 | Collecting entomological evidence (T) Beetles used in criminal entomology (P) |
| Week 6 | Collecting climatological data (T) Beetles used in criminal entomology (P) |
| Week 7 | Mid-term exam (T) Collecting insect evidence from field (P) |
| Week 8 | Rearing forensically important insects in laboratory (T) Collecting insect evidence from field (P) |
| Week 9 | Factors effecting the succession on corpses (T) Rearing insects in laboratory (P) |
| Week 10 | Factors effecting the succession on corpses (T) Rearing insects in laboratory (P) |
| Week 11 | Estimating post-mortem interval (T) Rearing insects in laboratory (P) |
| Week 12 | Mid-term exam (T) Estimating post-mortem interval (P) |
| Week 13 | Entomotoxicology (T) Practices on estimating post-mortem interval (P) |
| Week 14 | Molecular techniques in criminal entomology (T) Practices on estimating post-mortem interval (P) |
| Week 15 | Preparing final exam |
| Week 16 | Final exam |
Assesment methods
| Course activities | Number | Percentage |
|---|---|---|
| Attendance | 0 | 0 |
| Laboratory | 0 | 0 |
| Application | 0 | 0 |
| Field activities | 0 | 0 |
| Specific practical training | 0 | 0 |
| Assignments | 0 | 0 |
| Presentation | 0 | 0 |
| Project | 0 | 0 |
| Seminar | 0 | 0 |
| Midterms | 2 | 50 |
| Final exam | 1 | 50 |
| Total | 100 | |
| Percentage of semester activities contributing grade succes | 0 | 50 |
| Percentage of final exam contributing grade succes | 0 | 50 |
| Total | 100 | |
WORKLOAD AND ECTS CALCULATION
| Activities | Number | Duration (hour) | Total Work Load |
|---|---|---|---|
| Course Duration (x14) | 14 | 2 | 28 |
| Laboratory | 14 | 3 | 42 |
| Application | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Specific practical training | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Field activities | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Study Hours Out of Class (Preliminary work, reinforcement, ect) | 14 | 10 | 140 |
| Presentation / Seminar Preparation | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Project | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Homework assignment | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Midterms (Study duration) | 2 | 15 | 30 |
| Final Exam (Study duration) | 1 | 20 | 20 |
| Total Workload | 45 | 50 | 260 |
Matrix Of The Course Learning Outcomes Versus Program Outcomes
| D.9. Key Learning Outcomes | Contrubition level* | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | |
| 1. Improves knowledge in proficiency level based on the undergraduate level in biology or different disciplines and analyses by using the statistic methods and interprets them. | X | ||||
| 2. Uses theoretical and practical knowledge obtained from his/her field in proficiency level | X | ||||
| 3. Interprets the knowledge that obtained from his/her field with integrating the acquired knowledge from the other disciplines and comprises new knowledge. | X | ||||
| 4. Sorts out the encountered problems on his/her field by using the investigation methods. | X | ||||
| 5. Applies his/her results to field by using scientific methods. | X | ||||
| 6. Conducts a study which requires specialization in his/her field independently | X | ||||
| 7. Improves new strategies to solve encountered and unpredictable complex problems in his/her field by taking responsibility | X | ||||
| 8. Evaluates the proficiency level knowledge and skills in his/her field in a critical approach and processes his/her learning. | X | ||||
| 9. Uses informatics and communication technologies with the computer software required in his/her field | X | ||||
| 10. Has the ability of minding social, scientific, cultural and ethical values in the levels of collecting, interpreting, applying and announcing the data in his/her field. | X | ||||
| 11. Evaluates the important people, events and cases by minding the results, which take in part in the improvement of his/her field. | X | ||||
*1 Lowest, 2 Low, 3 Average, 4 High, 5 Highest