Skeletal Growth & Development

Human Skeletal Growth and Development /ANG 6930
Warren; B-342 Turlington; Forensic Anthropology Research & Teaching Laboratory / Wednesday - Period 10 - E1

This course is a graduate seminar exploring the growth and development of the human skeleton from the embryonic period through early adulthood. We will examine current research on growth rates and patterns, developmental pathology, and determination of age from skeletal remains.

The required text is Scheuer and Black (editors) Developmental Juvenile Osteology. Academic Press . . . an expensive but worthy text. The book will be available at the HUB; ISBN 0-12-624000-0.

This is the pilot course for a growth and development seminar that will be offered every 2 years. Among the topics we will discuss are:

Early embryological development
Bone development
Skeletal development
Growth onset, offset signal and rate
Factors affecting growth
Fetal growth trajectories; populational differences in proportionality
Determining developmental age from the skeleton
Fetal skeletal pathology; etiology and mechanism
Later developmental pathology – problems in normal development
Teratology
Juvenile osteology
Skeletal pathology and trauma in juveniles
Corrective orthopaedics
Pathological growth; bone-building diseases

For each of the 16 weeks of Spring 2002, we will explore the current literature addressing the topics above. The discussants will synthesize papers from developmental, clinical and anthropological literature and contribute to the compilation of a course handbook for future students. Each participant will be required to author a paper on some aspect of skeletal growth and development.

The objective of the course is to familiarize the participants with the current state of the field and provide a background for further study in growth, development and pathology. Grades will be based on each participant’s contribution to the course, as well as the quality of the paper.

Students are expected to adhere to the University of Florida’s Honor Code; Students requesting classroom accommodation must first register with the Dean of Students Office. The Dean of Students Office will provide documentation to the student who must then provide this documentation to the Instructor when requesting accommodation."

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