North-Eastern University will begin its new course that will train detectives using methods popularised through tv shows such as CSI Miami. Undergraduates will be taught how to use criminology, forensic psychology, chemistry, pharmacology and computing to help solve crimes. The four year degree will result with professionals with knowledge of the advanced technologies used by modern police forces. Students will use case studies and be challenged to use modern techniques, such as artificial intelligence, to analyse forensic scene of crime data. They will be given the chance to put this knowledge to the test when they are possibly to be placed with jobs at Northumbria and West Midlands Police forces, the Harperley Hall Police training centre for Scene of Crime Officers, and at local organizations such as the Northumbria Coalition Against Crime. This program is being headed by Dr Giles Oatley, a senior lecturer at the university's artificial intelligence lab, the Centre for Adaptive Systems. He says: "The Home Office is emphasizing the use of technology-based solutions in crime fighting. Forensic data analysis, artificial intelligence and high quality programming abilities are the skills that criminal investigations of the future will demand, and this degree course will provide students with the skills necessary for a very interesting and enriching career.
"The degree provides students with an understanding of criminology, different types of forensic data and analysis techniques - just like the techniques used on CSI Miami."
The BSc (Hons) Forensic Computing degree begins in September 2005 and is believed to aid North-Eastern in attracting even more applicants in the coming years.
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7 comments:
this sounds like a very interesting course, similar to ours except at a much higher intensity. The review was well done, in the way it explains the course, what will be studied in the course, and what students can use their degree for in the future. I would want to know if any prerequisites are necessary to pursue this degree, such as chemistry or physics, or if it can be taken at an introductory level. Also, I would want to know how specific each topic is studied or if it is course more focused on CSI technique rather than the science. Overall, I thought it was a well written and interesting article.
I was very interested in this article because I wanted to understand what educational steps forensic scientists need to take before entering the field. Thankfully, this article summary gave me all the information I was looking for. I liked how Greg went into talking about what skills are used by forensic scientists to successfully solve modern crimes.Crimes in this day in age are becoming harder and harder to solve because new technologies allow criminals to leave without a trace. However, One thing I didn't like about the summary was that the beginning sentence gave me NO incentive to continue reading the article. I also found that some statements were repeated more than once in the summary. But overall I enjoyed learning about this particular college course and the curriculum it consists of.
This class can deffinitely develop the next generation of forensic scientists. It is very in depth and covers all subjects pertaining to the study of forensics. The emphasis on the tools and processes needed to solve crimes in relation to this class was astonishing. This article is very interesting but could do with some corrections. As Max said below, the first sentence could be corrected a bit in order to really attract readers, more of a hook is needed. I also believe that if there were some more information on requirements and graduation awards and degrees, this article would be complete.
Great job on this article. Your review is very interesting because it proves that the field of forensics is becoming a significant field of education. This is great because it will expose students to the specific techniques used by modern police forces as well as the analysis of forensic scene crime data. Overall, I thought that this was an interesting article and that no changes are necessary.
This article was very informative and quite fascinating to become familiar with. It stressed everything that one will have to learn and what courses they are to take in order to go about the degree. The topics were briefly stated and it would have been nice to know more about them. I thought the article reading was somewhat dull but it was full of interesting information. Overall, nicely done!!
this was a very intresting article. greg did a good job of explaining it and what the course was.
I think this was a very good choice for an article, and I was very interested while reading it. I think the review was very well written and offered a thorough explanation and many details. I think, of course, a little more information on how to obtain the Forensics degree would have helped enhance the article, and I would like to have more information on the courses that were offered. Even though I would have liked a little bit more information, I think this was very well-written.
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