Bachelor of Cybersecurity

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Course learning outcomes

On successful completion of the Bachelor of Cybersecurity, graduates will be able to:

• Demonstrate essential knowledge for a career in IT and cyber security related professions and practice
• Synthesise industry standard and underlying principles and concepts for decision making and risk assessment
• Critically analyse the core professional obligations, values and operations of organisations, including sustainability
• Critically evaluate data and resources in the context of industry practice and/or relevant academic literature
• Apply critical thinking to address IT and cyber security related issues
• Convey information clearly and fluently, in high quality written form appropriate for their audience
• Demonstrate effective oral presentation skills for academic and professional audiences.
• Demonstrate the ability to work collaboratively
• Apply technical skills, including numeracy, necessary for professional practice
• Demonstrate an awareness of ethical and social responsibility in professional practice.
• Identify and act upon, learning opportunities and self-improvements.

Inherent Requirements

• Inherent requirements are the identified abilities, attributes, skills, and behaviours that must be demonstrated, during the learning experience, to successfully complete a course. These abilities, attributes, skills, and behaviours preserve the academic integrity of the University's learning, assessment, and accreditation processes, and where applicable, meet the standards of a profession. For more information please visit: Bachelor of Cybersecurity.

Reasonable adjustments

• All JCU students have the opportunity to demonstrate, with reasonable adjustments where applicable, the inherent requirements for their course. For more information please visit: Student Disability Policy and Procedure.

Core subjects
Level 1

• CP1401:03 Problem Solving and Programming 1
• CP1402:03 Internet Fundamentals
• CP1404:03 Programming II
• CP1406:03 Web Design and Development
• MA1020:03 Preparatory Mathematics or MA1000:03 Mathematical Foundations
• MA1580:03 Foundations of Data Science
• CP1409:03 Operating Systems and Shell Scripting
• CP1410:03 Cybersecurity and Cryptography Fundamentals

Level 2

• CP2403:03 Information Processing and Visualisation
• CP2404:03 Database Modelling
• CP2406:03 Programming III
• CP2408:03 Design Thinking II
• CP2409:03 Network Forensics and Data Communications
• MA2011:03 Discrete Mathematics for Computing or CP2421:03 Machine Learning for Cybersecurity
• CP2422:03 Cloud and Data Centre Security
• CP2423:03 Cybersecurity Infrastructure and Management

Level 3

• CP3403:03 Data Mining
• CP3406:03 Mobile Computing or CP3407:03 Advanced Software Engineering
• CP3405:03 Design Thinking III
• CP3414:03 Ethical Hacking
• CP3416:03 Behavioural Cybersecurity
• CP3417:03 Cybersecurity for Operational Technology
• CP3101:03 Professional Internship or CP3418:03 Best Practices in Cybersecurity

Options

• Select 3 credit points of any undergraduate subjects

Honours availability
Available as an additional year of study

• Graduates may be eligible to be admitted to honours programs in Science, Information Technology or other disciplines appropriate to their interests. Interested students should seek advice from the Course Coordinator.
• Honours may not be available at all JCU locations

Eligibility

• Normally a minimum average grade of credit is required in the bachelor (pass) degree subjects relevant to the field in which Honours is to be taken