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Ten years ago, you had to pack up your stuff and drive 10 hours to find a decent forensics training program. No longer. There's one in every state in the country. Take your pick!

California Forensics

During the course of the program, you have to maintain a 2.5 average. You can reach the program at 530-898-6192.

Summer courses in forensics - Cal State Chico

CSU's Department of Anthropology leverages the facilities and labs on campus to offer courses during the summer. Forensic Archaeology: Field Recovery Methods, is a 5-day, intensive summer course on materials and methods involved in the recovery of human remains from outdoor environments. You learn how to find clandestine graves, map human remains that you dig up, document and interpret the grave site. The course also looks at the recovery of burned remains from arson and fire scenes, and looks at simulated outdoor forensic scenes for course work. Combined with lectures on various topics, this is definitely a course to consider if you're interested in pursuing forensic anthropology as a career, with more intensive courses to follow.

California State University, Dominguez Hills

Computer Forensics - Cal State Dominguez Hills

CSU Dominquez Hills offers an undergraduate, 300-level course called Computer Forensics and Investigation. It's a new course, part of the bachelors program in computer science. Additional courses on hacking and security are also offered.

California State University, East Bay

Forensic Computer Examiner Certificate (online) - Cal State East Bay

CSU East Bay offer training for the Certified Computer Examiner (CCE) certificate program in an online-only format. As you might expect, the topics cover what is required for certification: types of computer media, chain of custody, DOS, Windows, NTFS partition table, boot records and recovery methods for each. The course is self-paced, results in a certificate, and costs around $3100. You can get more information by calling the program coordinator at 510-885-2321

Basic Forensic Nursing (continuing education) - Cal State East Bay

Cal State East Bay offers a continuing education course for nurses on the basics of forensic nursing, helping to give you an idea if this is a specialty you want to pursue. The course starts with the basics, with crime scene and death scene analysis, crisis intervention, and later moves on to substance abuse, evidence, death classification and evidence collection. An RN license is required to enroll.

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