About the program
Cyber Operations and Resilience (CORe) is an asynchronous online program that prepares students to work in environments where anticipating, detecting, mitigating, and managing cyber, physical, and interdependencies infrastructure threats is crucial. This program is focused on the interplay of systems, technical, program management, and policy skills necessary to design, remediate, and operate resilient information systems, physical systems, networks. A holistic system level thinking approach is at the heart of the CORe program. The asynchronous online curriculum provides for a number of achievement modalities: pathways for high school students (traditional and career & technical education), community college graduates, and working professionals with an undergraduate degree in any field; Stackable certification pathways for learners to achieve career alignment; and a curriculum that awards experiential learning credits in affordable manner.
* The degree plan above is active for the CORe BAS option. The CORe BS option will match the above degree plan starting Fall 2022 pending curriculum changes. The CORe BS degree plan for students who have started the program prior to Fall 2022 can be found in the Boise State Catalog.
Program of Study
University Foundations Requirements
Complete the following requirements
University Foundations
take 3 credits
Foundations of Writing
take 6 credits
Foundations of Oral Communication
take 3 credits
Foundations of Mathematics
take 3-4 credits
Foundations of Natural, Physical, and Applied Science
take 7 credits, in 2 different fields, including at least 1 with a lab
Foundations of Arts
take 3 credits
Foundations of Humanities
take 3-4 credits
Foundations of Social Sciences
take 6 credits, in 2 different fields
Core Requirements
take the following courses
CORE400 - Cyber Systems Thinking
3
CORE405 - Cyber Project Management and Design
3
CORE470 - Cyber Risk Management
3
CPS301 - Information Assurance and Critical Thinking
3
CPS401 - Defensive Security
3
CPS402 - Offensive Security
3
CPS403 - Recovery and Forensics
3
CPS411 - Foundational Essentials for IT Network Practitioners
3
CPS412 - Foundational Ess for IT Cyber Security Prac (CompTIA Security+)
3
Cyber Depth Electives
take 4-7 credits
4 - 7
CORE401 - Cyber Risk Assessment
1
CORE410 - Applied Cybersecurity Programming
1
CORE411 - Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
1
CORE412 - Cyber Security Operations Center
1
CORE413 - Internet of Things Architecture
1
CORE421 - Cyber Business and Regulatory Operations
1
CORE422 - Cyber Red and Blue Teams
1
CORE450 - Cyber Threat Intelligence
3
CORE460 - Cyber Resilience Systems Design
3
Applied Learning
take 2-6 credits
2 - 6
CORE484 - CORe Experiential Learning
1
CORE485 - CORe Prior Learning
1
CORE486 - CORe Certification
1
Finishing Foundations
take the following course
CORE480 - Cyber Capstone
3
Program Pathway
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Year 1
UF100 - Foundations of Intellectual Life
ENGL101 - Writing and Rhetoric I
Foundations of Mathematics
ENGL102 - Writing and Rhetoric II
Foundations of Natural, Physical, and Applied Science
Foundations of Oral Communication
Foundations of Social Sciences
Foundations of Humanities
Year 2
CPS301 - Information Assurance and Critical Thinking
UF200 - Foundations of Ethics and Diversity
CORE400 - Cyber Systems Thinking
CPS401 - Defensive Security
CPS402 - Offensive Security
Year 3
CORE470 - Cyber Risk Management
CPS403 - Recovery and Forensics
CPS411 - Foundational Essentials for IT Network Practitioners
Year 4
CPS412 - Foundational Ess for IT Cyber Security Prac (CompTIA Security+)
CORE405 - Cyber Project Management and Design
Foundations of Natural, Physical, and Applied Science
Foundations of Social Sciences