Villanova University

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Cybersecurity Graduate Program

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Planned Course Schedule

2021-11-04 - Subject to change

F17 is Fall 2017, S is Spring, M is Summer

Requirements: the 2 core courses, at least 4 more security courses, and a total of 10 courses. You can edit the resulting HTML degree plan file to include older courses, transfer credit, special cases, etc.

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Student Name:   Student ID Number:

F17 S18 M18 F18 S19 M19 F19 S20 M20 F20 S21 M21 F21 S22 M22 F22 S23 M23 F23 S24 M24   Core Courses
                            ECE 8476 - Cryptography & Network Security
                            ECE 8484 - Cybersecurity Threats and Defense
    Systems Specialization
                                ECE 8410 - Trusted Computing
                                ECE 8485 - Critical Infrastructure Control Systems Security
                              ECE 8492 - Secure Software Development
                                ECE 8498 - Designing and Securing Cyber-Physical Systems
    Policy Specialization
                                      ECE 8488 - Security Risk Assessment and Management
                                    ECE 8494 - Legal Aspects of Computer Security and Information Privacy
                              ECE 8495 - Cybersecurity Behavioral Analytics
    Operations Specialization
                              ECE 8486 - Ethical Hacking
                                  ECE 8489 - Malicious Software Analysis and Defense
                                ECE 8491 - Blockchain Technology and Uses
                              ECE 8496 - Computer Forensics and Incident Handling
F17 S18 M18 F18 S19 M19 F19 S20 M20 F20 S21 M21 F21 S22 M22 F22 S23 M23 F23 S24 M24   Electives
                            ECE 7428 - Computer Communication Networks
                                ECE 8405 - Computer Organization & Design
                                    ECE 8408 - Mobile Computing & Wireless Networking
                              ECE 8448 - Embedded Systems Architecture
                                ECE 8473 - Unix and C Programming
  ECE 9030 - Independent Study
  ECE 9031 - Research I (thesis option)
  ECE 9032 - Research II (thesis option)
  ECE 9090 - ECE Project
                CSC 8301 - Design & Analysis of Algorithms
                            CSC 8490 - Database Systems
  CSC 9010 - Special Topics
                                    MAT 7770 - Number Theory
                                      MAT 8650 - Abstract Algebra
  XXX 0001 - other elective, with permission of advisor
  XXX 0002 - other elective, with permission of advisor

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