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How to Apply
Course Descriptions
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Next program starts:
Autumn 2008
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Program location:
Seattle
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Classes are held one evening per week in Seattle.
Autumn Course
Private Investigation and the Law
Schedule: Tuesdays, 6-9 p.m., Sept. 30-Dec. 9, 2008 (no class Nov. 11); $708; 3 CEUs.
Instructor: Michael Schwartz
- Courts and the admissibility of evidence
- The criminal justice system
- Insurance law
- Privacy and state law
- Privacy and federal law
- Legal and ethical issues
- Investigator/attorney relations
Winter Course
Criminal Investigation and Investigative Techniques
Schedule: Tuesdays, 6-9 p.m., Jan. 6-Mar. 10, 2009; $708; 3 CEUs.
Instructor: Denise Scaffidi
- Overview of the role of the investigator
- Discovery
- Planning and organizing an investigation
- Interacting with witnesses, civilians, technical, scientific and medical professionals
- Interacting with police and lead detective
- Interviewing, taking notes, taping, writing reports
- Crime scene investigation, forensics, using expert witnesses
- Finding people and records
- Court testimony
- Ethics
Spring Course
Civil Investigation and the Business of Investigation
Schedule: Tuesdays, 6-9 p.m., Mar. 31-June 2, 2009; $708; 3 CEUs.
Instructor: Susan Ludwig
- Introduction to civil investigations
- Domestic violence, missing persons, pre-employment, asset searches, process service
- Death investigations
- Insurance investigations
- Police investigations
- Fraud investigations
- Auto accidents
- Product liability, malpractice, dog bites
- Workers compensation and workplace investigations
- Public and private records, computer forensics, forensic accountants
- Surveillance
- Business practices and opportunities
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