Cyber Criminology Major
Requirements
To graduate with a major in cyber criminology, students must complete 52 hours through the following required coursework.
Prerequisite Courses (13 hours)
- MAC1105 College Algebra
- MAC1140 Precalculus
- MAC1114 Trigonometry
- MAC 2311 Calculus I
Criminology Courses
Required Courses (12 hours)
- CCJ 2020 Introduction to Criminal Justice
- CCJ 3011 Criminology
- CCJ 4700 Introduction to Research Methods in Criminology
- CCJ 4746 Statistics in Criminology (for students entering FSU in Fall 2024 and after)
- CJE 3110 Law Enforcement
Elective Courses (9 hours)
- CCJ 3644 White Collar Crime
- CCJ 3666 Victimology
- CCJ 4497 Criminal Justice and Public Policy
- CCJ 4614 Criminal and Delinquent Behavior
- CJC 3010 Corrections
- CJE 4610 Crime Detection and Investigation
- CJJ 4010 Juvenile Justice
- CJL 3510 Courts
- CJL 4064 Individual Rights and the Criminal Justice System
Capstone Course (3 hours)
- CCJ 4938: Criminal Justice System Responses to Cybercrime
(This capstone course is offered only in the Spring semester.)
Computer Science Courses
Required Courses (13 hours)
- CIS 4360 Introduction to Computer Security (Prerequisite: COP 3014 or equivalent programming course. Prerequisite is COP 3330.)
- COP 3014 Programming I
- COP 3330 Object Oriented Programming
- COP 3353 (1 hour) Introduction to Unix
- MAD 2104 Discrete Math I
Elective Courses (12 hours)
- CDA 3100 Computer Organization I (Co-requisite COP 3330.)
- CDA 3101 Computer Organization II
- CEN 4020 Software Engineering I (Prerequisite is COP 4530 Data Structures.)
- CIS 4250: Ethics and Computer Science
- CIS 4361 Applied Computer Security
- CNT 4406 Network Security and Cryptography (Prerequisites: CDA 3100. Unrelated to CDA 3100. Co-requisite COP 4530.)
- CNT 4504 Introduction to Computer Networks
- CNT 4603 Computer and Network System Administration
- COP 3252 Advanced Programming with Java (Prerequisite is COP 3330.)
- COP 4020 Programming Languages (Corequisite is COP 4530.)
- COP 4342 Unix Tools
- COP 4530 Data Structures, Algorithms, and Generic Programming
- COP 4610 Operating Systems and Concurrent Programming
- COP 4710 Theory and Structure of Databases
Capstone Course (3 hours)