Interdisciplinary Studies, BA

Cybersecurity
Program Delivery
On Campus, Online, Hybrid
Total Credits
120 Credits

About the Program

Cybersecurity issues are relevant to almost any field or industry.  As such, employees who have a broad understanding of cybersecurity issues would be valuable to any organization.

An Interdisciplinary Studies degree is suited for:

  • Students who have a specific personal or professional interest that cannot be met within the traditional degree structure or
  • Students with disparate credit hours trying to find a way to complete their degree.
     
entrance sign to the Cybersecurity Building at UCCS

Focus of Study

The BA in Interdisciplinary Studies – emphasis on Cybersecurity is for UCCS College of Letters, Arts & Sciences (LAS) majors who would like to learn more about cybersecurity concerns and how they impact their chosen field.

This degree plan integrates a core set of cybersecurity courses from engineering, business, and criminal justice, with specified concentration areas.

Cybersecurity student presenting their research

Program Requirements

  • Requires a minimum of 39 credit hours of coursework and a minimum of 27 credit hours of upper-division (3000-4999 level) coursework.
  • Students must select their two clusters early in the program to ensure that all courses can be completed within three years.

Program Coursework

The Interdisciplinary Studies major requires a minimum of 39 credit hours of coursework and a minimum of 30 credit hours of upper-division (3000+ level) coursework.
 

*The GIS concentration area requires 5 additional hours of course work which will reduce general electives by the same amount.

Cybersecurity Major Requirements

AreaCourseCourse TitleCredit Hours
Interdisciplinary CoreINFS 1100Production Apps for the Workplace3
CS 1910 OR CJ 2300Cyber is for All OR Cyber Law & Policy3
Cybersecurity CoreINFS 3500Introduction to Cybersecurity Technologies3
INDS 3660Interdisciplinary Internship (or equivalent)3
INFS 3750Organizational Cybersecurity3
COMM 4230Crisis Communication3
INDS 4660Interdisciplinary Studies Capstone (or equivalent from concentration area)1

LAS Concentration Area
 

Choose (1) of the following course areas:
 

Criminology and Justice Studies

Complete all of the following courses:

  • SOC 1110
  • SOC 3400
  • SOC 3410

Complete (3) courses from the following:

  • SOC 3360
  • SOC 4110
  • SOC 4190
  • SOC 4590
  • SOC 4960
18
Criminal Justice

Complete the following courses:

  • CJ 1001
  • CJ 2052
  • CJ 2300
  • CJ 3620
  • CJ 4340
  • CJ ? - TBD
18
Geographic Information Science (GIS)*
 

Complete all of the following courses:

  • GES 3030
  • GES 3060
  • GES 4080

Complete (3) courses from the following:

  • GES 3050
  • GES 4040
  • GES 4070
  • GES 4090
  • GES 4120
  • GES 4130,
  • GES 4700(Spatial Database topic only)
18
Technical Communication and Information Design (TCID)

Complete all of the following courses:

  • TCID 2080 or 2090
  • TCID 3120
  • TCID 3130
  • TCID 3860

Complete (2) courses from the following:

  • TCID 3080
  • TCID 3140
  • TCID 3160
  • TCID 3750
  • TCID 3850
  • TCID 3865
  • TCID 4080
18
TCID – User Experience (UX)
 

Complete (2) courses from the following:

  • TCID 2090
  • TCID 3140
  • TCID 3860
  • TCID 3865
18