Bachelor's Degree in Cybersecurity
Degree: Bachelor of Applied Arts and Sciences
Major: Cybersecurity
Hours: 120
Cybersecurity Overview
Lamar University's Bachelor of Applied Arts and Sciences in Cybersecurity combines skills learned in the classroom with the professional experience many pursuing a cybersecurity degree already possess. This is a flexible, career-focused online program designed for students with diverse backgrounds and prior technical credits, associate degrees or military training.
This program is designed to help you increase awareness of the growing threats facing organizations, governments and individuals. You will gain lifelong skills and the ability to defeat adversaries. Upon graduation, you will be prepared to face the growing threats facing organizations, governments and individuals.
Cybersecurity Courses You May Take
Personal Productivity: Personal productivity is a course based on the FranklinCovey framework, designed to empower individuals to significantly enhance their personal and professional effectiveness by focusing on five key decision-making principles that optimize their time, attention, and energy. This course integrates theoretical foundations with practical applications to develop students' abilities to make effective decisions, manage time efficiently, and achieve sustainable productivity in both personal and professional contexts.
Computer Law and Ethics: This course introduces the ethical style of good writing in computer science and presents the social, legal, philosophical, and economic issues related to computers.
Software Engineering: Systems analysis, software requirements analysis and definition, specification techniques, software design methodologies, performance measurement, validation and verification and quality assurance techniques.
Secure Software Engineering: This course covers five main secure software engineering topics, such as security, defensive programming, reliability, program understandability and programmer misconception.
Artificial Intelligence: Introduction to concepts and ideas in artificial intelligence. Topics include search techniques, knowledge representation, control strategies and advanced problem-solving architecture.
Career Paths for Cybersecurity
Obtaining a BAAS degree in cybersecurity prepares you for high-demand roles in protecting networks, analyzing threats and managing risk in industries like finance, healthcare and government.
Primary Careers
Information security analyst, ethical hacker, security engineer
- Software engineering
- Information technology
- Security
- Forensic science
- Risk and compliance
- Government agencies
- Schools and universities
- Technology companies
- Pharmaceutical and medical companies
- Industrial manufacturers