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Postgraduate Diploma of Computer Forensics

COMF21D

Faculty:
Faculty of Arts
Award:
Postgraduate Diploma of Computer Forensics (PGDipCompForensics)
Admission Requirements:
Bachelor degree or substantial relevant professional experience
Study Mode:
Full-time, Part-time
Attendance Mode:
Internal, External
Candidature Length:
Full-time: 1 year
Study Period Offerings:
Session 1, Session 2
General requirements:
Minimum number of credit points at 800 level or above 24
Completion of other specific minimum requirements as set out below

In order to graduate students must ensure that they have satisfied all of the general requirements of the award: see the general requirements listed above.

Specific minimum requirements:

Credit points

800 level

Required
4
Computer Forensics: Practice and Procedure (4)
 
Required
4
Legal Practice and Procedure: Digital Evidence (4)
 
Required
4
Assessment of Low Level File and Operating Systems (4)
 
Required
4
Hardware: Applying Computer Forensic Practice to IT Hardware (4)
 
Required
8cp from
 
Network and Systems Security (4)
 
 
Data Mining and Business Intelligence (4)
 
 
Information Warfare and Cyberterrorism (4)
 
 
Networking: Extracting and Analysing Digital Evidence from Network and Telecommunications Systems (4)
 
 
Software Design and Tools (4)
 
 
IT Security (4)
 
 
Cybercrime (4)
 
8
Supervised Project in Security Studies (4)
 

Balance of credit points required:

 
 
0
Electives

TOTAL CREDIT POINTS REQUIRED FOR THIS PROGRAM

24