Handbook

The Bachelor of Cyber Security addresses the cyber skills gap by giving the industry access to students and graduates while equipping them with essential cyber security skills, knowledge, and attributes. These skills are developed through well-designed and purposeful learning outcomes aligned with the core values of UNSW’s graduate capabilities. The program offers a strong Computer Science technical background and emphasise machine and software understanding at the core, as well as a focus on human factors and vulnerabilities. It includes both applied and theoretical elements, teaching students from both an attack and defense perspective with an Engineering mindset and approach to security. This ensures a well-rounded and qualified pipeline of cyber professionals necessary to build sovereign capability in the domain.

 

The program draws on Universal Design for Learning (UDL) principles to ensure students are provided with multiple means of engagement, action and expression, as well as representation. The learning design draws on a hybrid flexible (HyFlex) model with appropriate integration of online, in-person, laboratory, and industry-based experiences.