BSCYBER · 30 credits · 10 courses · 7-week format
B.S. in Cybersecurity and Critical Infrastructure Protection
A 30-credit, ten-course program spanning cybersecurity foundations, governance and risk, detection and response, security architecture, offensive security, and the protection of critical infrastructure and industrial control systems.
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Courses to complete
Credits per course
Weeks per course
Program learning outcomes
What a graduate can do
- Apply cybersecurity foundations, terminology, and controls across an organization.
- Assess risk and align programs to governance, compliance, and regulatory requirements.
- Detect, investigate, and respond to threats and incidents, including forensic analysis.
- Design and evaluate secure architectures for enterprise and operational-technology environments.
- Analyze threats to critical infrastructure, industrial control systems, and supply chains.
- Lead security initiatives and produce a professional capstone demonstrating integrated mastery.
Coverage
Disciplinary areas
Curriculum
Course inventory
8 core courses plus electives and a capstone. Students complete ten three-credit courses for 30 credits; the approved inventory is larger to support elective choice.
Core concepts, the threat landscape, controls, and the vocabulary of the field. Core · 3 cr
Risk frameworks, policy, and aligning security to regulation and standards. Core · 3 cr
Telemetry, detection engineering, and security monitoring in practice. Core · 3 cr
Response lifecycle, evidence handling, and forensic investigation. Core · 3 cr
Designing, hardening, and evaluating secure systems and networks. Core · 3 cr
Ethical offensive techniques, testing, and thinking like an adversary. Core · 3 cr
Protecting the sectors and systems that society depends on. Core · 3 cr
Securing ICS/SCADA and operational-technology environments. Core · 3 cr
Building, running, and communicating a security program. Elective · 3 cr
Security across transportation and mobility infrastructure. Elective · 3 cr
Third-party, supply-chain, and emerging-technology risk. Elective · 3 cr
An integrative, professional project defended before faculty and documented as a portfolio artifact. Capstone · 3 cr
Each course licenses with complete documentation, seven weekly modules, three-hour synchronous session plans, asynchronous activities, labs or cases, assignments, rubrics, and instructor & student guides. See individual courses.
Available for licensing and customization
Adopt it as-is, or adapt it to your institution
This program is available for institutional licensing. It may be adopted as a complete curriculum or customized for your academic model, students, faculty, delivery schedule, modality, policies, branding, technology environment, accreditation needs, and regional or industry context.
The licensing package may include the program overview and rationale, program learning outcomes, curriculum structure and maps, required and elective courses with sequencing and prerequisites, complete course documentation, seven-week instructional modules, synchronous session plans, asynchronous activities, laboratories and case studies, assignments and rubrics, instructor and student guidance, certification and career mapping, capstone documentation, and implementation and quality-assurance materials.