This course introduces you to basic English writing skills and research methods, including APA-style writing, citing sources, determining when a website is credible, and using effective business communication.

This course provides a comprehensive foundation in business principles, equipping you with essential knowledge and skills applicable across various business environments. You’ll develop a strong understanding of key business concepts by exploring how successful entrepreneurs navigate global competition and evolving market dynamics. 

This course deals with organizational behavior, allowing you to experience the basic facets of organizational theory and define the skills required to understand and apply the theory to real-world environments. Elements of the course are organizational structure, effective communication, team building, ethics, and project management, as seen through the organizational lens.

While cyberspace has increased human communication, connectivity, creativity, and capacity, it has also increased crime exponentially in the last decade. This crime aspect is exploited by everyone from hackers in high school to international terrorists. IT criminals threaten businesses, governmental agencies, militaries, and organizations of every kind. This course will survey the spectrum of psychological attributes that make up the profile of IT criminals.

This course encompasses an extensive research project about cross-cultural differences in leadership conducted by a group of researchers in 62 countries. It lays a foundation for understanding the process of leadership. The study examines the roles, functions, and impact of global leadership concepts, along with team exercises that simulate the speed at which leaders must act. Research and views into how most cultures respond to this management area are also provided.

This course evaluates network and IT security issues, designing and implementing successful security policies and firewall strategies, exposing system and network vulnerabilities, and defending against associated threats. Topics include network protocols, network attacks, intrusion detection systems, packet filtering, proxy servers, Bastion hosts and honey pots, hardening routers, hardening security measures, email security, virtual private networks, and creating fault tolerance. 

This course focuses on configuring a secure Linux network using the command line and graphical utilities. Emphasis is placed on file-sharing technologies such as the Network File System, NetWare’s NCP file sharing, and File Transfer Protocols. Additional topics include securing data, user security, file security, and network intrusion detection. You will take on the role of a problem solver and apply the concepts to situations that occur in real-world environments.

This course focuses on how perimeter defenses work, how intruders escalate privileges, and methods of securing IT systems. Additional topics include intrusion detection, policy creation, social engineering, DoS attacks, buffer overflows, and virus creation.

This course will show you how to design, secure, and test networks to protect organizations from cyber attacks. You will identify security problems and learn how to avoid and eliminate them. The course provides complete coverage of analysis and network security testing topics.

This course focuses on performing effective penetration tests in an enterprise network environment that must be attacked, exploited, evaded, and defended. Curriculum topics include an introduction to penetration testing and methodologies, penetration testing scoping and engagement, open-source intelligence (OSINT), social engineering penetration testing, external network penetration testing, internal network penetration testing, and network penetration testing for perimeter devices.

This course covers the various methods of securing wireless networks, including authentication, authorization, and encryption. Topics include radio frequency communications, infrared, Bluetooth, low-speed wireless local area networks (WLANs), high-speed WLANs, WLAN security, digital cellular telephones, fixed wireless, and wireless communications in business.

The Capstone is a summative experience, allowing you to demonstrate all program outcomes by drawing on the knowledge and skills gained throughout the program. You can enroll in the Capstone after successfully completing all core degree requirements, but it must be within six semester credit hours of graduation. You must attain a cumulative grade point average of 3.0 and have the Registrar’s approval to undertake the Capstone.