BAS CO Curriculum, Emphasis Areas & Courses

The College of Information Science's Bachelor of Applied Science in Cyber Operations (BAS CO), offered on main campus and online, equips students with the versatile skills they need to become a critical part of the nation's cyber defense.

Program Goals & Learning Outcomes

• Forensics: Demonstrate and explain how to acquire a forensically sound image;
  understand user activity; determine the manner in which an operating system or
  application has been subverted; identify forensic artifacts left by attacks; and
  recover deleted and/or intentionally hidden information.
• Networking: Demonstrate a thorough understanding of how networks work at
  the infrastructure, network and applications layers; how they transfer data; how
  network protocols work to enable communication; and how the lower-level
  network layers support the upper ones.
• Critical Thinking & Problem Solving: Demonstrate understanding of how
  variability affects outcomes; how to identify anomalous events; how to integrate
  and differentiate continuous functions of multiple variables; and how to solve
  complex problems using computation and scripting languages.
• Law, Ethics, & Policy: Describe and explain the relationship between cyber ethics
  and law; US and International cyber laws; criminal penalties related to unethical
  hacking; and apply the notion of Gray Areas to articulate where the law has not
  yet caught up to technology innovation.
• Security Principles & Vulnerabilities: Demonstrate and explain the various types
  of vulnerabilities and their underlying causes; how security principles interrelate
  and are typically employee to achieve assured solutions; and explain how failures
  in fundamental security design principles can lead to system vulnerabilities that
  can be exploited as part of an offensive cyber operation.
• Cyber Threat Intelligence: Describe and demonstrate how knowledge about an
  adversary's motivation, intentions, and methods are collected, analyzed, and
  disseminated to help security personnel and business staff to align resources and
  protect critical assets within an enterprise architecture.

Sample Four-Year Plan

120 units are required for graduation.

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This is a sample plan and is subject to change based on catalog year, placement tests, AP/CLEP credit, transfer work, minor requirements, summer school, etc. The official degree requirements may be found in the University General Catalog and all University of Arizona students should refer to the Academic Advising Report for specific graduation requirements.

Curriculum, Emphasis Areas & Courses

Bachelor's in Cyber Operations students take a mix of Foundations, General Education, Core Major and Electives courses, subject to change based on catalog year, placement tests, AP/CLEP credit, transfer work, minor requirements, summer school, etc.

Choose from either the Cyber Engineering, Defense and Forensics or Cyber Law and Policy emphasis area.

View or download fillable BAS CO degree checklist by emphasis area:

• Cyber Engineering
• Defense and Forensics
• Cyber Law and Policy

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