Minor and Certificate in Information Assurance Curriculum
The IA Minor and/or Technical Certificate in Information Assurance consists of 20 hours in seven courses. All courses must be completed with a grade of “C” or greater.
Students matriculating through colleges other than the College of Information Science and Systems Engineering (CISSE) will be approved for network and database courses in Business Management, unless written consent from instructors in CISSE courses is given.

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Required Prerequisite (3 hours)
IFAS 2300 Introduction to Information Assurance

Core Courses (8 hours)
CRJU 3309 Cybercrime
IFAS 3300 Computer Forensics
IFSC 4210 Computer Ethics

Computer Networking Course (3 hours)
MGMT 4310/5310 Local Area Networks
IFSC 3315 Applied Networking
CPSC 4384 Computer Networks
SYEN 3332 Communication Networks

Database Course (3 hours)
MGMT 4350/5350 Business Database Management Systems
IFSC 3320 Database Concepts
CPSC 3375 Database Concepts I
SYEN 3360 Data Communications

Approved Elective (3 hours)
SYEN 3318 Decision and Risk Analysis
MGMT 4311 Advanced Network Technologies
IFSC 4339 Network Security
IFSC 4330 Database Security
IFSC 3350 Quantitative Analysis
CPSC 3380 Operating Systems
CPSC 4376/5376 Cryptography