2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog w/ September Addendum

Dec 26, 2024

2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog w/ September Addendum

Cybersecurity Operations and Management, Cyber Operations Management Concentration Sequence

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Recommended Sequence for the Full-time Student Completing the Cyber Operations Management Concentration

The sequence that appears below was developed based upon the availability of specific courses each semester and the successful completion of course prerequisites.

First Year

Fall Semester

Session 1

ENGL 105 - College Composition (3 semester hours)
or
ENGL 106 - Academic Writing and Critical Thinking (3 semester hours)
MATH 120 - College Algebra (3 semester hours)
EXPL 100 - Cornerstone (1 semester hour)

Session 2

CYOM 105 - Introduction to Cybersecurity (3 semester hours)
GEND 102 - The Creative Mind I (3 semester hours)

Total semester hours: 13

Spring Semester

Session 1

COMM 110 - Speech (3 semester hours)
CYOM 130 - Cybersecurity Ethics and Policy (3 semester hours)
EXPL 200 - Steppingstone (1 semester hour)

Session 2

GEND 103 - The Creative Mind II (3 semester hours)
GEND Group - Scientific Inquiry (3 semester hours)

Total semester hours: 13

Summer Semester

Session 1

GEND Group - Environmental and Life Sciences (3 semester hours)
MATH 280 - Introductory Statistics (3 semester hours)

Session 2

ENGL 200 - Advanced Composition and Technical Writing (3 semester hours)
GEND Group - Historical and Political Investigation (3 semester hours)

Total semester hours: 12

Second Year

Fall Semester

Session 1

CYOM 215 - Critical Thinking, Reasoning and Analysis in Cybersecurity (3 semester hours)
MATH 210 - Discrete Mathematics I (3 semester hours)
or
MATH 220 - Calculus I (3 semester hours)
or
MEBA 375 - Statistics for Managers (3 semester hours)
EXPL 300 - Keystone (1 semester hour)

Session 2

CISC 120 - Programming I (4 semester hours)
CYOM 230 - Cyber Defense (3 semester hours)

Total semester hours: 14

Spring Semester

Session 1

CISC 225 - Information Systems Analysis and Design (3 semester hours)
Electives (4 semester hours)

Session 2

GEND Group - Leadership and Business (3 semester hours)
MEBA 220 - Principles of Business Management (3 semester hours)

Total semester hours: 13

Summer Semester

Session 1

CYOM 322 - Fundamental Security Design Principles (3 semester hours)
GEND Electives (3 semester hours)
Electives (3 semester hours)

Session 2

CYOM 340 - Cybersecurity Systems Administration (3 semester hours)
GEND Group - Historical and Political Investigation (3 semester hours)
(Select a course not previously completed)

Total semester hours: 15

Third Year

Fall Semester

Session 1

CYOM 410 - Cloud Cybersecurity and Governance (3 semester hours)
CYOM 430 - Principles of Secure Database Design (3 semester hours)
Electives (3 semester hours)

Session 2

CYOM 298 - Project I (3 semester hours)
CYOM 350 - Managing Cybersecurity Operations (3 semester hours)

Total semester hours: 15

Spring Semester

Session 1

CYOM 448 - Emerging Technologies (3 semester hours)
CYOM 450 - Risk Identification by Penetration Testing (3 semester hours)

Session 2

CYOM 498 - Project II (3 semester hours)
GEND Group - Leadership and Business (3 semester hours)
(Select a course not previously completed)

Total semester hours: 12

Summer Semester

Session 1

CYOM 455 - Advanced Cloud Cybersecurity and Governance (3 semester hours)
CYOM 365 - Internship (3 semester hours)
or
CYOM 499 - Applied Practice (3 semester hours)

Session 2

CYOM 480 - System Security Engineering (3 semester hours)
GEND Electives (3 semester hours)
EXPL 400 - Capstone (1 semester hour)