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Course Requirements

Code Course Name Credits
BUS241 Project Management 3

This course is intended to cover most of the fundamental aspects of modern project management (PM), both managerial and technical, as well as to give direct experience in implementing appropriate tools and techniques. By the end of this course, students should have a mastery of the basic theory and practice of PM, as described by the core knowledge modules (KMs) developed by Project Management Institute (PMI.) The course will draw extensively from the following three knowledge modules: Project Management Principles, Project Phases and Processes, and Project Planning and Integration.

CBY101 Introduction to Cybersecurity 3  
CBY202 Cyber Governance: Privacy, Ethics & Digital Rights 3

Describes the legal and ethical issues associated with information security including access, use, and dissemination. It emphasizes legal infrastructure relating to information assurance, such as the Digital Millennium Copyright Act and Telecommunications Decency Act, and emerging technologies for management of digital rights. It examines the role of information security in various domains such as healthcare, scientific research, and personal communications such as email. It examines criminal activities such as computer fraud and abuse, desktop forgery, embezzlement, child pornography, computer trespass, and computer piracy.

CBY225 Intrusion, Incident Response & Crisis Management 3

This course will provide students with the knowledge and skills required to collect and interpret evidence related to network intrusions such as: network traffic, network devices, servers and operating systems. Specifically, students will learn crisis management skills while collecting and analyzing network traffic and protocols (Prerequisite: CSC210).

CBY230 Risk Management 3

This course is designed to provide students with ways to identify, manage, respond to and document risk-related events. Specifically, this course will address various stakeholders' perspectives when considering risk. Students will understand concepts and develop a risk management mindset. Finally, students will learn to develop communication and documentation strategies related to risk management.

CBY301 Fundamentals of Information Assurance 3

This course builds a common cross-disciplinary understanding in the foundations of information assurance. Presents an overview of basic principles and security concepts related to information systems, including workstation security, system security, and communications security. It introduces information security via database technology, discusses legal infrastructure such as DMCA, Telecommunications Act, wire fraud, and other ethical issues. Covers security methods, controls, procedures, economics of cybercrime, criminal procedure, and forensics. It describes the use of cryptography as a tool, software development processes, and protection.

CBY320 Cyber Strategy 3

This advanced course teaches specific skill sets so students will be cyber aware and have a cyber risk mindset across various industries. It provides examples of the evolution of contemporary risk strategies by using case studies from both large and small organizations (e.g., supply chains). By the end of the course, students will be able to communicate various cyber strategies to various stakeholders.

CBY335 Data Privacy 3

This course identifies legislation, policies and frameworks in the US and the EU related to
computer and digital privacy, building upon earlier CBY curriculum. Students will learn
concepts of personally identifiable information (PII) across multiple platforms and industries.
From a risk management perspective, by the end of the course, students will understand how to
protect PII and data privacy.

CBY455 Cybersecurity Capstone 3

This capstone course is designed to provide an opportunity for the student to synthesize, reflect upon, and analyze the complex field of digital forensics. This course will highlight the major current issues in the field of cybersecurity.

CBY498/499 Internship 6  
COM111 Computer Applications I 3

In this course, students will be provided a baseline of knowledge of the fundamentals of computers and digital literacies to ensure they will be able to understand a constantly changing technology oriented landscape. In this course, students will be exposed to the fundamentals of computing technology, including computer hardware and software concepts; the Windows operating system and commands; drives, folders, and files; Google’s suite of applications; use of the Internet and growing connectivity with everyday devices; and digital literacy knowledge and skills. By mastering the fundamentals of computing technology and demonstrating digital literacy, students will have the skills needed to thrive in the 21st century workforce.

CSC101 Applied Computing 3

This course emphasizes technical computing concepts and the development of skills in a technology driven world. It further provides students with skills to perform basic operations involved in system administration, with an understanding of the roles of an operating system, its basic functions, and the services provided by the operating system. An introduction to coding languages is provided. Finally, the course provides students with the ability to create simple scripts/programs to automate and perform simple operations.

CSC210 Computer Networks/ Network Security 3

The purpose of this course is an in-depth exploration of data security controls and techniques. This course will examine theoretical concepts of network security implementation. This course will examine network security tools and techniques and include hands-on practical applications. Networking has enabled the emergence of mobile and cloud computing, creating one of the most important technological paradigm shifts in computing of the past decade. Coming advancements in wireless networking are expected to transform the technological landscape over the next decade by enabling an endless possibility of new applications, including the Internet of Things and wireless virtual reality, through the emergence of wireless networks with gigabit speeds. In order to play a role in this era of new network-powered advancements, students must have a thorough understanding of emerging networking topics, especially in the wireless domain.

CSC297 Programming Languages 3

This course introduces a systematic approach to programming. Specifically, this course teaches students to use Python to solve real world problems. By the end of the course, students will be able to construct a program from a series of instructions in Python.

ENG114 Critical Reading & Response 3

This course introduces the integration of communication skills essential for effective reading, writing, speaking, and listening at the college level. In this writing intensive course, students develop composition skills to produce collegiate-level papers modeling rhetorical modes and thematic content in addition to strategies for reading complex texts; presentation skills for personal introductions, verbal summaries of readings and response writings, and peer review of papers; and basic technological skills for word processing, e-mail, and introductory-level online research.

ENG124 Research & Writing in the Disciplines 3

In this course students will apply the practices for effective reading and writing introduced in ENG114 to the distinctive language and forms of various disciplines. This course lays the foundation for academic and professional research and stresses the use of appropriate and effective information sources. Readings for a variety of academic audiences will provide students with strategies to communicate in the sciences, business and technology, psychology, liberal studies, and the social sciences. Research and documentation skills appropriate to the disciplines are stressed. In addition to leading students through the research process from start to finish, this course will examine the many ramifications of academic honesty (Prerequisite: ENG114).

ENG134 Literary Genres 3

Selected readings in fiction, poetry, and drama introduce the student to literary types and techniques. These readings provide a basis for collegiate-level discussion, analysis, and the development of critical judgment. Building on the communications and research skills from earlier courses in the sequence, this course emphasizes continued practice in writing, and students complete a documented research paper using primary and secondary sources as one of the course writing assignments. Discussions and oral presentations based on assigned literature support the overall goal of the sequence: to enhance the advancement of the students, first academically and then professionally (Prerequisite: ENG114).

MAT120 Statistics 3

This is an introduction to the basic descriptive and inferential statistics for students from all disciplines. It emphasizes the development of statistical literacy and the use of computer for analyzing data. Topics include principles of experimental design; graphical and numerical methods for summarizing, describing, exploring and analyzing data; binomial and normal probability distributions; point and interval estimates for means and proportions; hypothesis testing; and correlation and regression (Pre-requisite: MAT104 or appropriate placement test score).

WEL100 Women as Empowered Learners & Leaders 3

Women as Empowered Learners and Leaders is an interdisciplinary course, designed to give all students entering Bay Path University a common experience and foundation for their education. This course is an introduction to the University, to academic study, and to various approaches to thinking about personal potential, to understand the process of becoming a learner, and a leader, and composing a life, to appreciate beauty, and work actively toward establishing community and justice in the context of being a woman at the beginning of the 21st century.

WEL310 Strategies for Career & Personal Growth 1

(This course is graded Pass/Fail.) In their junior year before the opening of the spring semester, baccalaureate degree students will be offered a special opportunity to learn up-to-date information about the current work world in an intensive two-and-a-half-day workshop format. Students will meet successful professionals who will discuss the challenges and opportunities of their respective fields and help students prepare for interviews as well as learn how to navigate the early stages of their new careers.

WEL400 WELL in Practice 3

By WEL400, you will be ready to blend all the skills you have learned during the WELL program—leadership, critical thinking, research, writing, analysis, and public presentation—with a community service project. Empathy, respect, and tolerance are the core human values that are stressed. It’s what every good leader needs to confidently show the way.

XXXXXX Lab Science Elective 4  
XXXXXX General Electives 42  
XXXXXX Arts & Aesthetics Elective 3  
XXXXXX Citizenship Electives 6  
XXXXXX Global Electives 6  
XXXXXX Healthy Living Elective 1