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University of Miami Summer Scholars – Forensic Investigation, Crime Scene and Intelligence Analysis

University of Miami Summer Scholars – Forensic Investigation, Crime Scene and Intelligence Analysis

University of Miami Summer Scholars in our Forensic Science and CSI program will discover life as a forensic anthropologist, crime specialist and analyst in a hands-on, for-credit, three-week program.

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The University of Miami Summer Scholars Program offers for credit opportunities for high school students to gain real-world, hands-on, and college-level exposure to and understanding of various careers and industries, including Forensic Investigation, Crime Scenes, and Intelligence Analysis (among many others).

Here’s what the Forensic Investigation, Crime Scene, and Intelligence Analysis program covers:

Students experience life as a forensic anthropologist, crime specialist and analyst
Work with law enforcement special agents, forensic anthropologists and forensic specialists to learn the method and process for answering the hidden reasons behind an individual’s unnatural death
Meet professional intelligence analysts and discover careers paths in this exciting field
Students enroll in APY 100 and APY 200

What’s the structure?

Students will go into the field to gain an introductory understanding about forensic investigation of a crime scene
- Examination and identification surrounding a death from unnatural causes by law enforcement
- Approaching a crime scene, gathering evidence, and analyzing all aspects of a crime scene
- Join forensic firearm and fingerprint specialists to analyze “instruments of death and destruction” that caused the demise of the individual and uncover latent prints left at the crime scene establishing the identity of the perpetrator
- Search the hidden secrets employed by forensic behavioral analysts who assist criminal investigations to provide behavioral assessments of unknown offenders, threat analyses, interviews, prosecutorial and trial strategies and ultimately expert testimony
Participate in the investigative technology available to law enforcement
- Extracting information and data from computers, the Internet and following an individual’s digital footprint
- Learn the rules of law to regulate investigative activities
  - Observe this first hand as we spend a day in a criminal courtroom. This course takes you from a crime scene to the courtroom.