At the beginning of the program, students take an intensive one-day orientation seminar. The orientation offers a number of workshops to introduce students to the program, in which students are introduced to Blackboard (virtual classroom software), case study and analysis, library resources, and the writing of reports and reference citations.

The Graduate Certificate in Information Security curriculum is designed to provide graduates with expertise to protect, secure and manage information systems from threats and attacks. The curriculum consists of 4 courses for a total of 12 credits for the graduate certificate.

• CIT 505 Information Security
• CIT 510 Information Security Policy, Ethics, and Law
• CIT 515 Network and Internet Security
• CIT 520 Information Security Management