During your Foundation Year, you will undertake modules to enable you to enhance your academic skills and equip you with the tools you’ll need to study with confidence. You’ll carry out a personal project so you can study an area of interest related to your chosen future subject specialisation.
​You’ll study the principles of coding, learning and applying these skills to create simple apps. You’ll study web development and produce code for a website and will explore social media integration, data capture and cyber security.
Following successful completion of your Foundation Year, you’ll progress onto Year 1 of our Computer Science with Cyber Security BSc (Hons) degree.
There is an urgent need to find solutions and answers to the ongoing threat of digital crimes, coupled with a skills gap in information security and data privacy across the employment sector.
This degree is designed to equip you with the theoretical, conceptual and practical skills needed to defend and mitigate possible threats in computing and networking environments.
You’ll gain a broad perspective on the handling of sensitive and confidential information, including consideration of government regulation and ethics.
Our academic experts will introduce you to the tools, frameworks and concepts used by adversaries (black hat) to compromise computer systems. You’ll use this knowledge to develop mitigation strategies and build strong defensive walls across the computer network and computing infrastructure.
You’ll develop practical hands-on, technical skills and awareness of the core concepts, theories and principles of how to secure data and information against breach and compromise.
Through the professional work placement and employer projects included in your degree, you’ll learn about current practices in the cyber security industry and be able to put theory into practice, while building your employability skills, such as teamwork and leadership.
The course provides additional opportunities to obtain professional industry-recognised certifications in areas relevant to hacking and cyber security, such as Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA), Microsoft Certified Ethical Hacker and CompTIA Penetration Tester (PenTest), which can help you stand out in the job market.
You’ll graduate ready to apply your acquired knowledge to design, implement, manage and lead initiatives on cyber intelligence, cyber resilience and threat mitigation, working to secure data for both public and private employers in a range of computing and business-related contexts.
Why study with us?
- Build your self-confidence, academic skills and core subject knowledge in preparation for progression onto degree-level study and becoming a more independent learner.
- Gain a comprehensive understanding of threat mitigation strategies and cyberdefense intelligence.
- Develop your applied knowledge of core theories, concepts, principles and policy regulations of data privacy.
- Undertake professional work placements to apply theory in a real-world setting and gain highly desirable employability skills.
- Enhance your CV through opportunities to obtain professional certifications from tech giants, including Cisco and Microsoft.