Kirk Stephens, Chair
CyberCrime Technology
Southwestern Community College

You should take a minute to check the prices at our College Bookstore, but I know a lot of you shop from other online bookstores. My personal favorite is BookPool, but I also compare prices at Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble.

I strongly encourage all students to make use of the free email account provided to you by the College. I receive so much SPAM from bogus Yahoo! and Hotmail addresses that I sometimes accidentally delete a valid message without realizing it. Also, the College's SPAM filters sometimes block Yahoo/Hotmail/Others because of the included advertising. By the way, you can configure your favorite mail program to "import" your College mail, and vice-versa. All of this is "doubly-true" if you're taking an online course with BlackBoard.

I've been promoting Free AVG for a long-time now. I gave up Norton/Symantec and use AVG on my own machines. I recommend it highly (especially if you run Vista). Download and install the latest version from Grisoft. Grisoft also has an impressive anti-spyware tool and a rootkit detector.

Course Information

Below you will find three categories of documents for each class I am teaching:

• The Study Guide is your most important resource during the course. It is a living document and will change on a weekly or even daily basis. It is your Instructional Outline, your plan for the course, your study guide, and your exam review. You should visit this document on a regular basis.
• The Course Syllabus is a student-oriented document. It is the document that you typically receive on the first day of class. You are responsible for reading and understanding the Syllabus and I will review it on the first day of class. This document will not change during the semester.
• The Course Outline is an institutional document and of little use to students. However, I am required to create and maintain them for each class. This document rarely changes.

I've compiled a list of Most Asked Questions that you might also want to read.

Instructor Contact Information

Kirk E. Stephens
Cybercrime Technology
Southwestern Community College
447 College Drive
Sylva, NC 28779

Email me at kirks@southwesterncc.edu

My current Office Schedule is also posted by my door - Founders 125C.

If you managed to stumble across this page without coming through the "front door," you should know that I teach CyberCrime Technology at Southwestern Community College in Sylva, NC. The College maintains an Employee Directory, has web page guidelines, and a disclaimer for employee pages.

Last Updated May 2008