Bachelor of Science in Cybersecurity

3 Credit Hours

A survey of major artists, artwork, styles, and techniques from the Renaissance through the 20th century, with a primary focus on major Western art movements, including architecture, and the relationship between the social function of art and its form, content, and context.

4 Credit Hours

A survey of environmental sciences addressing interactions between humans and their environment, environmental concepts, population dynamics, global challenges, biodiversity, resource management, and relationships between environmental science and other disciplines. Laboratory work introduces methods of experimental design and analysis.

3 Credit Hours

Explore how internal and external business communications can be more effective. Students develop written and performance communication projects designed to serve the needs of organizations in multicultural markets.

3 Credit Hours

An introduction to fundamental and intermediate business intelligence and analytics concepts and techniques, including data visualization, data mining, statistical analytics, and customer and social data analysis.

3 Credit Hours

An introductory and practical approach to developing, understanding, and refining communication skills, including interpersonal communication, cultural communication, small group dynamics, and public speaking.

3 Credit Hours

Develop the ability to strategically influence and advance organizational goals using contemporary communication techniques, tools, and methods for developing, tracking, and measuring communication effectiveness.

3 Credit Hours

Develop skills in preparing key messages and talking points, delivering speeches and presentations, conducting Q&A sessions, and effectively managing media interviews.

3 Credit Hours

An introduction to fundamental principles of computer science, with an emphasis on problem-solving techniques, data and procedural abstraction, algorithmic thinking, and programming using Python.

3 Credit Hours

Learn the fundamentals of designing and creating web pages using HTML and CSS, with an emphasis on creating functional and visually engaging digital experiences.

3 Credit Hours

Explore the fundamentals of user experience and user interface design, including user research, personas, user journeys, wireframes, prototypes, design thinking, usability principles, and the use of AI tools to support the design process.

3 Credit Hours

Build upon foundational Python skills through intermediate programming concepts including advanced control structures, file handling, regular expressions, object-oriented programming, error handling, libraries, APIs, unit testing, and debugging.

3 Credit Hours

Study the development and use of abstract data types for storing and retrieving data, including lists, strings, tables, stacks, trees, graphs, searching and sorting algorithms, and recursion.

3 Credit Hours

Explore object-oriented program design concepts and the fundamentals of the C# programming language, including program design, implementation, testing, and debugging.

3 Credit Hours

Study object-oriented program design concepts and the fundamentals of Java programming through program design, implementation, testing, and debugging.

3 Credit Hours

Study operating system concepts and their application in modern systems, including process management, processor scheduling, memory management, virtual memory, file systems, deadlocks, and concurrency.

3 Credit Hours

Continue developing web programming skills through topics including Cascading Style Sheets, JavaScript, Dynamic HTML, XML, graphic manipulation, web design software, and server-based programming concepts.

3 Credit Hours

Explore concepts used in the design and implementation of modern network systems, including TCP/IP and OSI models, hardware components, protocol suites, network topologies, bridging, and routing.

3 Credit Hours

An advanced computer science capstone experience that integrates knowledge and skills developed throughout the program.

3 Credit Hours

Explore cybercrime and security, including different types of threats and attacks and the methods used to defend against them. Topics include practical cryptography and security across operating systems, computer networks, databases, and other computer systems.

3 Credit Hours

Explore network security objectives, architectures, models, layers, risk management, security policies, network forensics, and offensive cyber defense techniques.

3 Credit Hours

Examine the human aspects of cybersecurity, including ethics, laws, regulations, policies, standards, psychology, hacker culture, cybercrime motivations, and approaches to preventing attacks on organizational data.

3 Credit Hours

Explore the security of mobile devices and Internet of Things technologies, including associated networks and applications, vulnerabilities, and approaches used to secure these environments.

3 Credit Hours

Develop a foundational understanding of Linux and its role in cybersecurity through command-line operations, file system navigation, shell scripting, system administration, user management, permissions, and software installation.

3 Credit Hours

Explore modern web development with a focus on integrating database solutions. Develop dynamic web applications using server-side programming, client-side scripting, and database management.

3 Credit Hours

Explore cloud computing technologies and services and examine how cloud environments can provide scalable functionality while introducing new cybersecurity threats and considerations.

3 Credit Hours

Explore cybersecurity challenges specific to web applications and develop knowledge and skills related to protecting applications from vulnerabilities and cyberattacks.

3 Credit Hours

Examine the legal and ethical dimensions of cybersecurity, including regulations, compliance, risk management, policies, and frameworks that govern cybersecurity practices.