Cybersecurity (B.S.)

Program Learning Outcomes

Graduates from Messiah’s Cybersecurity program can:

  1. Apply the knowledge of Computer Science, Cybersecurity, and Information Assurance theories to analyze problems, assess trade-offs, and develop creative solutions, including programs, computer-based systems, and processes.
  2. Analyze systems, identifying and defining the security risks and design solutions to mitigate those risks, with consideration for business concerns and technical issues.
  3. Develop strategies for responses to cybersecurity threats.
  4. Develop and defend an ethical code of conduct consistent with the Christian faith and formulated from an understanding of professional, ethical, legal, security and social issues and responsibilities.
  5. Effectively communicate technical information for a range of audiences.
  6. Utilize industry recognized resources to stay abreast of the latest technology and the industry tools and techniques to safeguard those technologies.
  7. Function effectively on teams to establish goals, plan tasks, meet deadlines, manage risk and produce deliverables.
  8. Explain how faith connects to their discipline and how the biblical call to vocation relates to their potential career options.
  9. Engage in focused inquiry that seeks to answer or explore an intellectual and/or creative problem or question.

Major Requirements

Complete the following for your major:

CIS 150Introduction to Cybersecurity

3

CIS 180Introduction to Computer and Information Science

3

CIS 181Computer Programming I

3

CIS 255NIX System Administration and Security

3

CIS 265Digital Forensics

3

CIS 284Computer Programming II

3

CIS 332Database Concepts

3

CIS 335Software Engineering

3

CIS 354Information Assurance

3

CIS 364Ethical Hacking

3

CIS 384Elements of Computing Systems

3

CIS 385Data Structures and Algorithms

3

CIS 411Systems Analysis and Design Concepts

3

CIS 415Data Communications and Networking

3

CIS 416Operating Systems and Computer Architecture

3

CIS 455Network Security

3

CIS 462Secure Software

3

MATH 180Discrete Mathematics

3

CIS 364: Fulfills Writing Enriched requirement for the major.

Four credits from the following:

INTE 391Internship

1-3

INTE 394Internship

4-12

INTE 391 must be taken for a letter grade to fulfill major requirement

Four credits from the following:

STAT 269Introductory Statistics

3

STAT 281Applied Statistics for Management

3

STAT 291Statistics for Mathematical Sciences I

3

INTE 391 must be taken for a letter grade to fulfill major requirement

QuEST Requirements

Experiential Learning requirement (INTE 391/INTE 394) met/major
QuEST requirements Credits
First Year Seminar 3
Oral Communication 3
Created and Called for Community (W) 3
Mathematical Sciences (CIS 180, CIS 181) met/major
Laboratory Science 3 or 4
Science, Technology & the World waived
Two of the following: Social Science, European or United States History 6
Literature 3
Philosophy and Religion 3
Arts 3
First Semester of Language 3
Second Semester of Language 3
Third Semester of Language or Cross Cultural 3
Non-Western Studies 2-3
Bible 3
Christian Beliefs 3
Wellness course 1
Ethics, World Views, or Pluralism 3
QuEST requirements 48-50
Major requirements 61
Free Electives 14-12
Total 123