Minor in Computer Forensics
Administered by Department of Mathematics, Computer Science and Statistics
Effective Fall 2008
Computer forensics is the acquisition of digital evidence in a legally sound way. The minor is designed to be flexible and to appeal to students with many different majors. The minor consists of the first three computer forensics courses along with the three courses that may be taken in either compuer forensics or in forensics related courses in other disciplines, currently accounting, anthoropolgy, chemistry, computer science, political science and criminal justice.
Required courses:
56.117 Intro to Computer Forensics
56.217 Computer Forensics File Systems I
56.218 Computer Forensics File Systems II
Plus any* 9 credits from the following:
- 43.300 Juvenile Delinquency
- 43.310 Penology
- 43.320 Victimology
- 43.330 White Collar Crime
- 43.430 Special Topics
- 44.446 Constitutional Law
- 44.448 Judicial Process
- 46.221 Forensic Anthropology
- 52.105 Introduction to Forensic Science
- 56.121 Object Oriented Programming with Java
- 56.122 Graphical User Interfaces in Java
- 56.123 Visual Basic I
- 56.223 Visual Basic II
- 56.317 Forensics Analysis (Windows Environment)
- 56.348 Data Mining
- 56.357 Database Design
- 56.417 Advanced Topics in Forensics
- 56.476 Introduction to Computer Networks
- 91.326 Introduction to Fraud Examination
- 91.426 Advanced Fraud Examination
* A course in the major cannot be counted both for the major and this minor.
Some of these courses have prerequisites.