Full-time students can complete this course work in four semesters by taking two courses per semester. Degree candidates can choose to take more courses per semester, but the courses selected for credit toward the degree must remain within the program guidelines. A GPA of 3.0 is required for matriculation.

Required Courses (2 courses)

Complete all of the following courses:

IA5010	Foundations of Information Assurance	4 semester hours
IA7900	Capstone Project	4 semester hours

Technical Track Electives

Complete at least two of the following courses:

IA5120	Applied Cryptography	4 semester hours
IA5130	Computer System Security	4 semester hours
IA5150	Network Security Practices	4 semester hours
IA6120	Software Security Practices	4 semester hours

Contextual Track Electives

Complete at least two of the following courses:

IA5200	Security Risk Management and Assessment	4 semester hours
IA5210	Information System Forensics	4 semester hours
IA5240	Cyberlaw: Privacy, Ethics and Digital Rights	4 semester hours
IA5250	Decision Making in Critical Infrastructure	4 semester hours

Additional Course Elective

With approval from the Master of Science in Information Assurance program director, courses from computer science, criminal justice, engineering, and business administration that are available online can also be accepted as electives. (Please note: All of the following non-IA electives are currently available only on-campus).

Examples of elective courses are:

IA5976	Directed Study	4 semester hours
IA5978	Independent Study	4 semester hours
IA5984	Research	4 semester hours
IA8982	Readings	4 semester hours
CRIM7224	Law and Psychology	4 semester hours
CRIM7252	White Collar Crime	4 semester hours
CRIM7242	Terrorism and International Crime	4 semester hours
CS5500	Managing Software Development	4 semester hours
CS5600	Computer Systems	4 semester hours
CS5200	Database Management Systems	4 semester hours
CS5700	Fundamentals of Computer Networking	4 semester hours
CS6740	Network Security	4 semester hours
CS6770	Software Vulnerabilities and Security	4 semester hours
CS6540	Foundations of Formal Methods and Software Analysis	4 semester hours
MGMT6215	Strategic Security Management	4 semester hours

Total Required Semester Hours = 32