JS 502: Intro to Computer Forensics

Taken Fall 2010
Instructor: Gary Warner

I was super excited about taking this class I thought it would be fun...boy was I wrong. The instructor was very unorganized and did not come class prepared very often. It wasn't that he didn't want to he just has a lot of things on his plate. He himself is a nice person but if you ever try to send him emails pertaining to the homework or other assignments he will never respond. This course also requires a mini-research project for the graduate students. In the syllabus he has written out a plan for you to turn stuff in month by month to keep you on track and working on it. However he doesn't fret about it until two weeks before its due then he wants you to dedicate every waking minute of that two weeks on the research, powerpoint, and paper. And I am pretty sure he doesn't even read the paper.

Also written out in the syllabus are descriptions of all the assignments you will have to complete, this is missleading because he either changes the assignment or you don't even do half of them. There are two tests in the class the mid-term and the final. And he gives you a basic study guide for them but half of the information you will have to look up in the text book or on the internet.

If you are interested in the computer forensics certificate than you have to take this course and I heard that he gets better the more advanced the class is but you have to be willing to learn the basic concepts on your own .