CURRICULUM COMMITTEE
NEW COURSE PROPOSAL
ACADEMIC UNIT: Behavioral and Social Sciences
DATE PREPARED: October 6, 2016
PRIMARY AUTHOR(S): Mara Merlino, Wilfred Reilly, Johnathon Sharp
ACADEMIC DISCIPLINE
FACULTY APPROVED:
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CHAIRPERSON/DEAN
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NEW COURSE NUMBER: PSY/SOC/POS/HIS 466
NEW COURSE TITLE: Cyber-Security and Cyber-Politics
CAPSULE STATEMENT OF COURSE CONTENT FOR CATALOG:
Contemporary issues in cybersecurity addressed in terms of the political, ethical, and legal standards in the virtual community of cyberspace.
DESCRIPTION OF COURSE CONTENT FOR COURSE SYLLABUS:
President Barack Obama recently referred to the United States of America as being prepared to drop “cyber bombs” on her enemies. In the era of worm viruses and the dark-net, he did not exaggerate much if at all. Cyber-security – the ability to functionally manifest hard and soft power through cyber-space – will be one of the key technologies used by 21st century nation states in peace and in war. This course will address contemporary real-world issues in cyber-security (i.e. Russian and Israeli role in the 2016 Presidential election), information security, mitigation of cyber vulnerabilities, digital forensics, and incident response and analysis. A KEY focus will be the extension of best-practice ethical and legal standards into the “frontier community” of cyber-space. While the Professor has some professional computing background, this course will focus on training decision-makers in key concepts of cyber politics, rather than on an excessively technical examination of specific virus tools and software programs.
PREREQUISITES:
REQUIRED COURSE: ___Yes ___No
CREDITS: (a) Number 3
Variable credit Explanation:
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