Cybersecurity Minor
We’ve all heard about cyber attacks, whether they are large or small scale. Protecting data assets is essential in our modern society where everyone heavily relies on technology. With your cybersecurity minor, you can begin your journey as a defense leader.
Program Overview
The curriculum for the cybersecurity minor focuses on the techniques, policies, operational procedures, and technologies that secure and defend the authentication and confidentiality of information. Students will explore the security of a variety of computing environments for a well-rounded education in cybersecurity.
Why Get a Minor in Cybersecurity?
A cybersecurity minor helps prepare students for careers that address security in application design, information systems, infrastructure, system management, and policy. The technical and analytical skills gained over the course of the program are essential and applicable across industries.
Featured Courses
COSC 102 Introduction to Computer Science
This course covers modular programming in an object-oriented programming language, including string and vector manipulation, file I/O, bit operators, Boolean algebra, pointers, simple sorting and binary search, plus introductions to recursion and templates.
COSC 366 Introduction to Cybersecurity
In this class, cybersecurity concepts will be covered, and basic topics core to understanding computer security are introduced, including security goals, threat modeling, software security, operating system security, cryptography, network security, and human factors.
COSC 202 Data Structures
Students will learn about design, analysis, and implementation of fundamental data structures and algorithms including lists, stacks, queues, hash tables, binary search trees and heaps.
COSC 230 Computer Organization
Learn about gate level logic, binary number representation and arithmetic, data path and memory hierarchy with focus on code impact, parallel computing, instruction set architecture.
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