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Forensics at University of Alabama
Alabama Forensics Scholarships
The Alabama Forensics Council Scholarship offers money awards for students interested in forensics at the University of Alabama. On average, the Council offers about 20 scholarships each year. You can get more information by calling the College of Communication and Information Sciences at 205-348-2687.
University of Alabama Computer Forensics Certificate
The University of Alabama at Birmingham offers two different certificate programs in Computer Forensics, jointly between the Computer & Information Science and the Justice Science Departments. You can go for the first certificate -- called Category A -- if you are already enrolled as a graduate student working toward your degree in criminal justice, forensic science, or your MS/Ph.D. in computer science. The Category B certificate is what you'll want if you're not at UAB as a student, but instead just want to learn more about computer forensics, and how to use the skills on-the-job, either in the work you do now or for prospective employers.
The certificate program is no joke -- this is not something you'll pick up in a week-long training seminar like many certificates. It requires a full 21 credit hours to complete, spread over the fall, spring and summer semesters of a single year. In the fall, you'll take Introduction to Computer Forensics; Law, Evidence & Procedure; Computer Crime & Forensics; and Network Programming. In the spring, you'll have to knock out a Seminar course; Internetworking and Intranets; and Computer Security. Finally, you can use your summer semester to finish up Digital Documents, Security & Intellectual Property.
Of course, you have to be enrolled as a graduate student already to take the A-level Certificate program, but for the B-level Certificate, you only have to have a minimal competency in programming and forensic science. UAB defines this as skills at the level of their 100-level course in Python Programming and their 100-level Intro to Forensic Science course. You don't have to have these courses per-se, but you have to be familiar with the topics at the level these courses would get you up to.