Cybersecurity (BS)

The cybersecurity program is designed to provide students with the knowledge and skills of computer security, including theory, tools, and best practices. It seeks to prepare the student for careers in many areas of cybersecurity work including cyber analytics, penetration testing, network security, digital forensics, and cybersecurity operations and management careers. 

Mission Statement

• The Computer Science Department of Dallas Baptist University is committed to providing a high-quality education that stresses excellence in work performance, scholarship, ethical application of knowledge, and logical and practical skills for dealing with a society that is dependent upon constantly changing computer-related technology. This will be accomplished within a Christian environment that provides a spiritual foundation.

Goals of the Cybersecurity Major

The Cybersecurity program seeks to:

• Identify and apply theories and processes related to information security, assurance, and cybersecurity.
• Apply security and cyber defense principles to the planning, implementing, and monitoring of cybersecurity mechanisms to help ensure the protection of information technology assets.
• The ability of ethical decision-making and professional integrity.
• Identify and analyze organizational problems relating to information assurance, security, and its implications on value creation and defense.
• A major in Cybersecurity requires a minimum of 32 credit hours in computer science plus 24 credit hours in Cybersecurity. More than the minimum requirements in computer science will be necessary for students wishing to pursue graduate work in a related field. All Cybersecurity majors are required to take MATH 1405, 2301, 3302, and PHYS 1401, 1402.

Expected Educational Results:

• Employment for graduates in computer-related careers.
• Graduates pursuing advanced degrees.

Cybersecurity Major 58

• COSC 1302 - Introduction to Computer Science and Programming
• COSC 1405 - Foundations of Computer Science I
• COSC 1408 - Foundations of Computer Science II
• COSC 2306 - Data Structures and Introduction to Algorithms
• COSC 2403 - Object-Oriented Analysis and Design
• COSC 3301 - Database Management Systems
• COSC 3305 - Computer Organization and Architecture
• COSC 3306 - Networks and Telecommunication
• COSC 3312 - Information Assurance
• COSC 3403 - Software Security
• COSC 4316 - Ethical Hacking and System Defense
• COSC 4317 - Digital Forensics
• COSC 4308 - Senior Project in Computer Science (S-L)
• COSC 4401 - Operating Systems
• COSC 4402 - Software Engineering (S-L)
• COSC 4415 - Network Security and Cryptography

Along with the following course:

• MATH 3302 - Discrete Mathematics
• At least 12 credit hours in the major program must be completed at Dallas Baptist University, including nine upper-level course hours.
• Minimum GPA Required for Graduation from Dallas Baptist University: DBU requires a minimum institutional cumulative, major, and minor GPA of 2.0.

(S-L) = Course(s) with field-based service-learning component

• Refer to individual course descriptions for course requisites.

Course descriptions

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