CYSE at Old Dominion University

Gateway courses

Each of these unlocks the largest share of downstream work on this map. Courses from other departments can appear here when they genuinely gate CYSE coursework.

• CYSE 300Introduction to Cybersecurityopens 4 courses (1 directly)
• CYSE 430Introduction to Cybersecurity Risk Managementopens 3 courses (1 directly)
• CYSE 431Advanced Techniques Cybersecurity Risk Managementopens 2 courses (1 directly)
• CYSE 250Basic Cybersecurity Programming and Networkingopens 1 course (1 directly)
• CYSE 301Cybersecurity Techniques and Operationsopens 1 course (1 directly)
• CYSE 432Cyber Risk CSF/CMMCopens 1 course (1 directly)

The map

Intro tiers at the top, advanced work below; arrows point from a prerequisite to the course it unlocks. Courses from other departments appear where they gate CYSE work. Click any course to see what it requires and unlocks without leaving this page; hovering lights up its neighbors. The lists on this page carry the same courses in text form.

Showing the 31 CYSE and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 52 more CYSE courses have no recorded prerequisites. They are listed under Tracks below, not drawn as loose dots here.

Concentration routes

The concentrations and majors that build on CYSE, and how their requirements are structured. Expand a program to see which courses satisfy each group, then plan it in the Planner.

Tracks

Upper-level clusters, grouped by the gateway that opens them.

The longest ladders

The deepest prerequisite chains in CYSE. These are the routes that take the most semesters to climb.

• 6 courses deep, ending at CYSE 433

  1. MATH 162MPrecalculus I
  2. CYSE 300Introduction to Cybersecurity
  3. CYSE 430Introduction to Cybersecurity Risk Management
  4. CYSE 431Advanced Techniques Cybersecurity Risk Management
  5. CYSE 432Cyber Risk CSF/CMMC
  6. CYSE 433Cyber Risk FedRAMP/Audit

• 3 courses deep, ending at CYSE 420

  1. MATH 162MPrecalculus I
  2. CYSE 250Basic Cybersecurity Programming and Networking
  3. CYSE 420Applied Machine Learning in Cybersecurity

• 3 courses deep, ending at CYSE 425W

  1. ENGL 110CEnglish Composition
  2. ENGL 211CWriting, Rhetoric, and Research
  3. CYSE 425WCybersecurity Strategy and Policy

• 3 courses deep, ending at CYSE 450

  1. CYSE 270Linux System for Cybersecurity
  2. CYSE 301Cybersecurity Techniques and Operations
  3. CYSE 450Ethical Hacking and Penetration Testing

Grade medians

Professors

No section schedule with instructor names for CYSE yet.

Clubs & organizations

No clubs or organizations on record under CYSE yet.

Clubs students here join

Department events

CYSE does not run a page here yet. When it does, its events show up here and on the Old Dominion campus feed.