Offered at the SPC Reese 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 and insurance fraud, investigating identity theft, uncovering employee misuse of company computers, identifying accounting fraud. 

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 this certificate: BCIS 1405 Business Computer Applications and Sciences or consent of program advisor.

Program advisor on the Levelland Campus is Mackinzee Escamilla, assistant professor of computer information systems. Program advisor at the Byron Martin Advanced Technology Center in Lubbock is Ben Walton, professor of computer information systems.