ARCS2003 Forensics: The Archaeology of Death and Crime Scenes (University of Queensland): rated 4.5/5 overall across 8 reviews collected on UQ Wall.
ARCS2003 is a University of Queensland course taught by the Faculty of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences in Archaeological Science. This page brings together its handbook details and what UQ students say about it.
Review data updated 2026-10-24.
Chinese title: 法医考古学：死亡与犯罪现场
Type: undergraduate
Credit points: 2
Subject area: Archaeological Science
Faculty: Faculty of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences
Level: Undergraduate Level 2
Handbook year: 2026
This course explores the place of archaeological techniques of search, recovery and analysis within a forensic (pertaining to the law) context. An introduction to human skeletal analysis, searching, trace evidence, DNA and forensic testing, the criminal justice system, and the archaeology of human death are provided.
ARCS2003 has 8 scored reviews: overall 4.5/5 (all out of 5; higher difficulty means harder).
Sources: 8 Reddit comments that an AI model judged to be reviewing this course (average would-recommend 4.5/5).
On Reddit: "Crim1000 has no exam. Just weekly turorial task sheets based on the single, weekly lecture. They count the best 5 out of 8 towards the final grade. It also has 2 essay assignments. It’s a cruisy course ARCS2003 does have a mid semester spotter exam for osteology, but it is very …"
On Reddit: "ARCS2003 - This is a forensic archaeology, really easy to follow and super easy if you do any second year anatomy courses, it doesn’t have any required prerequisites though. PARA3002 - This is biomedical parasitology, really interesting while being a little gross at the same tim…"
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Q: Is ARCS2003 worth taking?
A: Averaged over 8 reviews: overall 4.5/5.
Q: Which faculty teaches ARCS2003, and when is it offered?
A: ARCS2003 is taught by the Faculty of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences. Check the official handbook for the current year.
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