Lecture evening: Forensic medicine - fascination or pure misery?
We are inundated with murder and manslaughter in the media, a different crime story every day, one CSI episode follows the next!
Does a pathologist really solve a murder case?
Which cases are actually dealt with in forensic medicine?
The lecture is intended to give an overview of the many different areas of work and working methods in forensic medicine and explain what distinguishes forensic pathologists from pathologists:
What does the examination of the deceased mean, what does the examination of the living mean?
Anyone who is at least 18 years old and is interested in getting to know the entire breadth of the subject in a compact, sometimes exaggerated form - also using individual illustrated case examples - and the possible significance for individual procedures, is cordially invited to listen and ask one or two questions afterwards.
Date: Friday, 18 October 2024, 17:30 to 19:00
Location: Large lecture theatre at the BTU main campus (Konrad-Zuse-Straße 4, 03046 Cottbus)
About the "Forensic Sciences and Engineering" study programme
The "Forensic Sciences and Engineering" study programme, which leads to a Master of Science (M.Sc.) degree, is an extra-occupational continuing education programme at BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg and is unique in Germany. The seminars in the forensics study programme focus on crime scene work, investigative procedures and the evaluation of evidence as well as their analysis in the context of successful judicial usability. The programme is a transdisciplinary academic course at BTU. Forensic knowledge, which can also be used by examiners in the private sector, also characterises the teaching programme. Overall, forensic science is facing new challenges: The pace of methodological, technical and scientific developments is characterised by digitalisation, new international and European trends, which are pushing law enforcement authorities and examiners, who have mostly acted nationally up to now, to their limits. "Forensic Sciences and Engineering" at BTU is taking on these challenges and is expanding its teaching profile from the winter semester 2025/2026 by offering specialisation certificates in (i) fire investigation, (ii) handwriting, (iii) white-collar crime and the (vi) special area of chemical and biological substances. People who do not have the prerequisites for a Master's degree programme will nevertheless be given the unique opportunity to continue their education in these specialist areas "at university".
Contact
Thomas Hasenauer
T: +49 (0) 355 69-3680
E: thomas.hasenauer(at)b-tu.de
Centre for Scientific Continuing Education
To the lecture series "Open BTU" of the BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg:
https://www.b-tu.de/weiterbildung/offene-hochschule/open-btu