(Offered at Reese Technology Center)

Digital Forensics is a one-year curriculum designed to train students with diagnostic forensic skills necessary for graduates to be employed in Computer/Digital Forensic positions in Law Enforcement relative to retrieval and court evidence preparation of suspected computer crime and investigation areas that include:  Investigating Child Pornography, Locating missing children, Detecting money laundering, Fighting espionage, Gathering of intelligence, Combating terrorism, Uncovering medical & other insurance fraud, Investigationg identity theft, Uncovering employee misuse of company computers, Identifying accounting fraud. 

          Program advisors at the Levelland campus are Charlene Perez, Assistant Professor of Computer Information Systems, and Mackinzee Escamilla, Instructor in Computer Information Systems.  Program advisors at the Byron Matin Advanced Technology Center in Lubbock are Ben Walton, Associate Professor of Computer Information Systems, Dr. Patrick Logue, Professor of Computer Information Systems, and Dennis Robinson, Assistant Professor of Computer Information Systems.  

          This is a TSI-waved certificate.  Students declaring this major are not subject to the TSI regulations unless they enroll in a course outside the prescribed curriculum.

Prerequisites to enrollment in certificate:                                                                                                      

COSC 1401 Intro. to Computer Information and Sciences or consent of program advisor.