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The Forensic Linguistics Institute is accredited as a learning provider
by the Open and Distance Learning Quality Council.Online Forensic Linguistics First Certificate Course
Revised and updated to include more detailed statement analysis program and forensic audio restoration and transcription of covert surveillance tapes.
NEW: Forensic audio restoration - this course now contains a unit on forensic audio restoration, the 'cleaning up' of covert audio surveillance material.
The First Certificate Course is your quickest introduction to forensic linguistics. Our 'flagship' course, with over 500 enrollees worldwide and growing fast.
The Forensic Linguistics First Certificate Course corresponds to a 1 hour course credit at undergraduate and postgraduate levels.
It consists of seven units:
- Introducing forensic linguistics
- Introducing statement (veracity) analysis
- Measuring text
- Transcribing written language
- Conversation analysis
- Plagiarism
- Forensic audio restoration
This course corresponds to a 1 hour course credit at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. It consists of three units: (i) Introduction to Forensic Linguistics, (ii) Transcription and Textual Veracity and (iii) Text Measurement.
The first unit will outline the broad focus of forensic linguistics and discuss several techniques in use. It will also introduce some necessary terminology. We will look at the origins of forensic linguistics and its early uses; how the discipline has evolved to the present time; what the main component studies within forensic linguistics are, and some of the terminology that necessarily comes with any modern, complex science. By the end of this unit you will have encountered some of the main text types found in forensic linguistics, including suicide notes, ransom demands, hate mail, and police statements. You will be given some data on how to distinguish the genuine text from the false or simulated one (especially appropriate to assault reports, missing person reports, suicide notes and ransom demands).
You will understand some of the differences between speech, dictation and writing, and why it is important to be able to recognize these different language modes in criminal investigation.
The second unit will focus on the transcription of forensic text and some aspects of textual veracity. These two topics are not especially relevant to each other, but in transcribing any given forensic text it is inevitable that we will make certain observations about that text, and it is just as natural that we might wish to classify those observations in ways that are useful to our understanding of the whole textual process. By the end of this unit you will know what pitfalls to avoid in transcribing text from video, audio and written sources, and you will have learned to make general observations about the structure of text. Throughout this unit you will be exposed to a wide variety of forensic text types, and your knowledge of linguistic terminology will also increase.
The third unit will focus on how to measure text, how to prepare your results statistically, and how to present forensic linguistic evidence in report form for use by courts of law.
By the end of this course you will have a broad idea of what a forensic linguistic inquiry consists of, and how to collect, organize and report forensic linguistic information in the context of a criminal or civil investigation.
The course contains many forensic texts not only in written or typewritten form, but also as audio and video files. New: forensic audio restoration course teaches you the basics of cleaning up audio files obtained by covert surveillance. Each unit contains several mini-assignments and the course concludes with a written assignment.
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