Florida CSI Training Classes
Forensics at Barry University
Forensic Photography
Barry University in Miami Shores, Florida, offers either a BFA or BA in Biomedical and Forensic Photography. This is a program to consider if you want to pursue forensic science photography, either by working at a crime scene investigation photographer or working in a medical examiner's office, contributing to case analysis, preparing forensic evidence, or documenting forensic procedures for the court. To get into the program, you'll have to pass a forensic portfolio review with a medical examiner, as well as complete at 200-level undergraduate anatomy course.
If you enroll in this forensic science program for the BA in forensic photography, you'll have to finish 48 credits in the biomedical and forensic photography core, along with what the school calls "co-requisites" in criminal justice and anatomy. The forensic photography courses include your general art background material, like 2-D design, basic and intermediate photography, computer imaging and a photography practicum. At the higher levels, you'll have to do classes in advanced digital imaging, studio lighting, the history of art and photography and a forensic science internship. The extra courses you'll have to take to round out the forensic photography is biology (for non-majors), human anatomy, criminology (entry level), and a 300-level biology special topics course.
What's nice about this forensics program is that you can choose between a BA in forensic photography or a BFA in forensic photography. The BA requires fewer courses in forensic photography, but allows you room to explore other majors, and perhaps minor in an altogether unrelated field. The BFA is more of a visual-arts centric degree, focusing on more visual arts courses at the expense of a necessarily well-rounded education. Fortunately, you won't have to choose to go for the BA or BS in forensic photography from the get-go. Since the two programs share the same core courses in forensic photography, you can make a decision later into your schooling.