2025-2026 University Catalog- DRAFT 
    
    Apr 13, 2025  
2025-2026 University Catalog- DRAFT

Cybersecurity, B.S.


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Requirements For: B.S. Major – 57 Hours, 2.0 GPA


The Cybersecurity Program prepares students for a career focused on countering the rising threats to the security of information and assuring the reliability of computing systems. Cybersecurity graduates will be prepared for earning a variety of professional certifications relevant to cybersecurity and for entering a variety of industry positions including security analyst / consultant, software developer, system administrator, database administrator, network administrator, risk manager, and project manager.

The Computer Science and Information Systems (CSIS) Department works with Park University’s Career Development Center in helping to place students in cybersecurity and other computing internship positions. The CSIS Department actively encourages students to work in such internship positions and considers internships to be an integral part of the cybersecurity curriculum.

Liberal Education Requirements 43 CR.


Communications Requirement 9 cr.


Take: EN105  and EN106   and either CA103   or CA105   

Artistic Interpretation and Creation Requirement 6 cr.


Select two of the following: 

AR115 , AR215 , AR216 , EN201 , EN232 , EN234  , MU260   , MU106

 

Ethical Reasoning Requirement 3 cr.


Select one of the following:

PH102   ,PH221  , PH224  , PH308   

Civics Requirement 3 cr.


Select one of the following:

HIS104   , HIS105   ,PA 230  , PO200  , PO210  

Human Diversity, Intercultural Understanding and Social Justice Requirement 3 cr.


 Select one of the following:

AN100   ,EN221   , GGH110  , SO206   ,SO342   ,SW205   

Information Literacy and Logic Requirement 3 cr.


Select one of the following:

BAI209   , CA322   , PH101  , PH103   

Mathematical and Quantitative Reasoning Requirement 3 cr.


Select one of the following:

MA115   , MA120 MA135 , or higher math course excluding MA208   

Scientific Inquiry - Natural and Physical Requirement 7 cr.


Natural Science - Select one from the following:

BI111  , BI214  , GO125  , GO141    or any higher BI or GO Course

 

Physical Science - Select one from the following:

CH101   ,GGP115  , GGP120   ,PY101  , PY130   or any higher CH, GGP or PY course

 

(One course must include a lab portion)

 

Scientific Inquiry- Social Science- 6 cr.


Choose 2 courses from the following: 

EC141   ,EC142   , PS101  , PS125   ,SO141   

Graduation Requirements


Student Seminar 3 cr.


FYE100 First-Year Seminar  (required for all incoming first-time freshman and highly encouraged for transfer students)

Upper Division Hours 36 cr.


36 hours upper division (300 - 400) level course work

Writing Across the Curriculum 9 cr.


3 credit hours of Professional Writing (EN306*  or equivalent from the list below) plus 6 credit hours of Writing Intensive coursework are required.

EN306A , EN306B , EN306C , EN307 , EDU300 , CJ450 HIS455 , MG306 , NS306 , PA430 , PO405 , PS300 , PS406 , or SO310  

 

6 credit hours to fulfill the Writing Intensive requirement must be chosen from among the courses designated in the catalog as “WI” (Writing Intensive ), composed as follows:

  • 3 of the credit hours must come from a WI course outside the student’s major(s); that is, the course must be offered by a program other than the one(s) that house(s) the student’s major area of study at the time the course is taken.
  • 3 of the credit hours must come from a WI course that is offered by the student’s major program; that is, the course must be offered by the same program that houses the student’s major at the time the course is taken.

AR316 , AR498 , BIO498 , CA218 , CH342 , CJ221 , CS300 , EDU310 , EN201 EN 204 EN221 , EN232 , EN234 , EN490 , EXS190 , GGP350 HC 263 ,  HIS261 , HIS453H , IDS410 , MA301 , ML251 , MG495 , NUR460 , PA432 , PO210 , PS315 , SO141 , SP320 , SW325  

Additional Requirements


Park University grants the Bachelor of Science, Bachelor of Science in Business Administration, Bachelor of Public Administration, Bachelor of Science in Education, Bachelor of Fine Arts, and the Bachelor of Music Degree upon completion of the following requirements:

  • Completion of a minimum of 120 semester hours with a cumulative 2.0 GPA (or higher dependent on major).
  • A minor for Geography, B.S.  and Information Systems, B.S.  majors.
  • Satisfaction of all requirements for a major.
  • Completion of degree specific requirements.
  • Completion of Liberal Education requirements.
  • Completion of residency requirement, 30 hours of earned and graded (A, B, C, D) college hours at Park University. At least 15 of these 30 hours must be in the major.
  • Submission of an Application for Graduation.

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