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Spring 2021

Featured Course: Forensic Aspects of Agricultural Animal Welfare

This course will introduce agricultural animal welfare with a focus on the legal aspects associated with abusive care of agricultural animals. This course explores scientific and ethical dialogue on agricultural animal welfare issues. Completing this course will provide an understanding of current U.S. laws governing agricultural animal welfare as well as the ability to minimally evaluate and assess the welfare of an agricultural animal.

Spring 2021

Featured Course: Forensic Photography

Students will gain an introduction to the history of photography and utilization of a camera in a crime scene setting. Students will learn basic photography skills, camera operation, exposure control, relational photographs, and flash control for crime scene and evidence documentation. This course is offered by UF’s Forensic Medicine online graduate program.

Spring 2021

Featured Course: Scientific and Legal Principles of Forensic Evidence

Students completing this course will gain a better understanding of the fundamental concepts of evidence, burden and standard of proof, judge and jury, types of evidence, witnesses, degrees of certainty, and other relevant aspects of the principles of evidence in a legal investigation.

All Master’s and Graduate Certificate students must take 5 core courses. Master’s students also take 5 elective courses.

(Unless otherwise noted, all courses are assigned a letter grade.)

Core Courses

Course Number	Course Title	Credits	Spring	Summer	Fall
VME 6052	Animal Crime Scene Processing	3		X
VME 6054	Scientific and Legal Principles of Forensic Evidence	3	X
VME 6051	Cruelty to Animals and Interpersonal Violence	3	X
VME 6575	Veterinary Forensic Medicine	3			X
ENY 6706	Forensic Entomology	3			X

Elective Courses

Course Number	Course Title	Credits	Spring	Summer	Fall
VME 6053	Skeletal Trauma Analysis in Animals	3		X
VME 6056	Animal Law	3	X
VME 6570	Wildlife Conservation and Forensic Science	3		X
VME 6571	Forensic Applied Animal Behavior	3	X
VME 6572	Forensic Aspects of Agricultural Animal Welfare	3	X
VME 6573	Wildlife Forensic Genetics	3			X
VME 6574	Aquatic Animal Pathology (Description TBD)	3	X
VME 6576	Veterinary Forensic Pathology II (VME 6577 is the prerequisite for this course)	3			X
VME 6577	Veterinary Forensic Pathology I (prerequisite course for VME 6576 Veterinary Forensic Pathology II)	3		X
VME 6578	Forensic Veterinary Osteology	3			X
VME 6579	Veterinary Forensic Radiology and Imaging	3	X
VME 6615	Veterinary Forensic Toxicology	3		X
VME 6616	Critical Thinking and Environmental Monitoring of Veterinary Agents	3			X
VME 6617	Risk Assessment and Mitigation for the Use and Management of Veterinary Agents	3	X
VME 6905	Problems in Veterinary Medical Sciences (self study course)	1-4	X	X	X
VME 6934	Seminar in Veterinary Pathology (self study course)	1-8	X	X	X
WIS 5562	Conservation Medicine	3	X
WIS 6557	International Wildlife Conservation Law, Policy & Ethics	3	X
WIS 6559	Forensic Science in Conservation Biology	3		X
WIS 6934	Working Dogs in Conservation and Forensic Sciences	3	X
WIS 6576	Human-Wildlife Conflict	3		X
WIS 6421	Wildlife Toxicology: The Ecohealth Perspective	3			X
WIS 6553	Wildlife Forensic Pathology	3			X
WIS 6425	Carrion Ecology and Evolution	3		X
VME 6580	Cybercrime in Wildlife Investigations	3			X
VME 6558	U.S. Wildlife Law, Policy & Ethics	3			X

Non-Thesis Option

Choose 5 elective courses to total 15 credit hours of electives.

(Unless otherwise noted, all courses are assigned a letter grade.)

Note: All non-thesis master’s students are required to complete and pass a written and oral final exam in their last semester in order to graduate.

Thesis Option

Earn 15 credit hours of electives, including thesis electives listed below.
(Unless otherwise noted, all courses are assigned a letter grade.)

Thesis Elective Courses

Course Number	Course Title	Credits	Spring	Summer	Fall
VME 6934	Special Topics in Veterinary Forensic Sciences	1-4	X	X	X
VME 6910	Supervised Research	1-5 (S/U)	X	X	X
VME 6971	Masters Research	1-6 (6 max) (S/U)	X	X	X