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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!

Tennessee Forensics

East Tennessee State University

Forensic Pathology

East Tennessee State offers an elective course in Forensic Pathology for fourth-year medical students. The course covers medicolegal investigations, with a particular emphasis given to on-the-scene investigations that students participate in with forensic pathologists. This includes consultations on autopsies, as well as being on-call during nights and weekends. The course uses primary literature and forensic science case studies, the law surrounding evidentiary requirements and special procedures necessary for evaluation and documentation of medicolegal cases.

Freed Hardeman University

Computer Forensics

Freed Hardeman offers a 3-hour course in the MIS program on computer forensics and digital forensics. The course is a broad survey of the field of computer forensics, with the only pre-requisite being the 100-level Computer Applications course (and consent of the instructor). The course starts with general concepts, where you'll learn about the tools and technologies that are out there for secure, court-sanctioned methods of recovering forensic data. The course takes a real hands-on approach, too, where you will perform forensic examinations on mock digital evidence seizures.

King College

Degree in Forensic Sciences

King College combines the best of its departments to offer a solid degree in forensics. Since this is a full-degree, you'll take courses in pretty much every aspect of a forensic scientist's career: law, ethics, statistics, psychology, biology, chemistry, math and communications. The program is designed so that when you finish, you'll have the training and degree requirements you need to become a medical examiner, criminal profiler or forensic engineer. If you don't want to work right away, you can take the degree to medical school (provided you meet the biology, chemistry and lab requirements), dental school (to pursue forensic odontology), or to a graduate program in forensic science (which seems to be the requirement for most lab directors today).

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